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☆ Natalie Portman explains how Rihanna gave her the post-divorce boost she needed
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-16 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Natalie Portman is not done fangirling for Rihanna. As they embraced, and Portman told the singer, “I love you!”“I am a f***ing fan,” Rihanna replied. The singer also told Portman she was “one of the hottest b**ches in Hollywood.”“I’m going to faint,” Portman told Rihanna. “I’m going to black out.”The Oscar-winner went on to tell Rihanna how she listens to her music all the time. Portman and Millepied are parents to son and daughter.

Persons: Natalie Portman, Rihanna, Portman, “, ” Rihanna, ” Portman, “ I’m, ”, Jimmy Fallon, Benjamin Millepied, Mila Kunis, Millepied Organizations: CNN, Paris Locations: Hollywood

☆ Natalie Portman’s birthday gave her the chance to thank friends for lifting her up ‘again and again’
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-10 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —For her birthday this year, Natalie Portman had a gift for some of her closest friends. The actress used her birthday post to thank them for their support. The appreciation comes months after Portman reportedly finalized her divorce from dancer and choreographer Benjamin Millepied. The pair married in 2012, two years after meeting on the set of her hit 2010 film “Black Swan” on which he served as choreographer. “He’s the best actor.

Persons: Natalie Portman, ”, Portman, Benjamin Millepied, Mila Kunis, Golden, “ Benjamin, ‘, Pffsh, ” Portman, “, It’s, Millepied, Aleph, Amalia Organizations: CNN, Golden Globe

☆ Los Angeles Works to Build Its Dance Muscles
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-06 | by ( Robin Pogrebin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Los Angeles may not be thought of as a dance town, but it has a rich legacy. It was here, in 1915, that the modern dance pioneers Ruth St. Denis and her husband Ted Shawn, established the Denishawn school and company, shaping and showcasing the first generation of American modern dancers, including Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman. Lester Horton, one of the first choreographers to insist on a racially integrated company, established the Lester Horton Dance Theater here in 1946, a pioneering stage dedicated to modern dance. But for all the talent Los Angeles has attracted over the years, and its success in founding other performing arts institutions, the city has struggled to establish lasting dance companies able to attract and maintain audiences and patronage. It has also just entered an agreement with the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, a larger theater, to perform there.

Persons: Ruth St, Denis, Ted Shawn, Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Busby Berkeley, Hermes Pan, Jack Cole, George Balanchine, Lester Horton, Benjamin Millepied Organizations: Hollywood, Lester Horton Dance, New York City Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, Wallis Annenberg Center, Performing Arts Locations: Angeles, Beverly Hills

☆ Benjamin Millepied Uses Movement to Reinvent ‘Carmen’ on Camera
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Roslyn Sulcas | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

For IndieWire, David Ehrlich wrote: “‘Carmen’ is stretched across a few too many borders to ever feel like it’s standing on solid ground. “It’s an unsteady composition, a frenzied combination of willowy movement pieces, an ecstatic score and a too-loose narrative,” Lovia Gyarkye wrote in The Hollywood Reporter. Over coffee, Millepied discussed the critical reaction to the film, the allure of “Carmen” and working with actors. Early on, when I was starting to think about the story, I had dinner with [the director] Peter Sellars and mentioned I wanted to make a “Carmen” film. He got kind of passionate, and said, “You have to reinvent it, it’s a terrible story.” I thought he was right.

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