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☆ The Gap comeback that might actually be working
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-02 | by ( Cathleen Chen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +21 min

Designer Zac Posen — now creative director at Gap Inc., at the Vanity Fair Oscar party in March 2024. Danny Moloshok/ReutersSince 2014, the Gap brand has nearly halved its presence in North America, going from 968 stores in the market to 472 as of February. It makes up about 20% of overall Gap Inc. revenue, while Old Navy accounts for more than half. Before Gap, Posen was on track for a similar trajectory to Mizrahi’s. They started by redefining the positioning of each brand: Gap as a pop culture brand.

Persons: CNN — Zac Posen, Richard Dickson, Posen, Donald, Doris Fisher, Mickey Drexler, Drexler, Uniqlo, Zac Posen —, Danny Moloshok, Sonia Syngal, Dickson, Barbie, Troye Sivan, Da’vine Joy, Anne Hathaway, ” Posen, won’t, Zac, Isaac Mizrahi, ”, Gabriella Santaniello, Mizrahi, Zac Born, Saint Ann’s, Lola Schnabel, Julian Schnabel, Lena Dunham, Nicole Miller, Naomi Campbell, Grimm, —, Da'Vine Joy Randolph —, Jamie McCarthy, Yucaipa, Ron Burkle, Sean Combs, Zac Posen, Neiman Marcus —, Zac Posen — that’s, Zac Posen’s, it’s, Paco Rabanne, Patrick Robinson, Ye, Julie Gilhart, Gilhart, ” Dickson, Bernadette Peters, “, Harrison Ball, Ryan Murphy, ’ ”, TJ Maxx, Kennedy, Anne Hathway, Pietro S, Robert, William Fisher, didn’t, Mark Breitbard, Horacio Barbeito, Chris Blakeslee, Goodman, Stephanie Keith, Da’Vine Joy Randolph’s, Sivan, Hathaway, Julia Fox, influencer, Lee Peterson, hasn’t Organizations: The, Fashion, CNN, Old Navy, Inc, New Yorker, Gap Inc, Navy, Banana, Reuters, Mattel, Hollywood, Xcel Brands, QVC, Saint, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Central Saint Martins, New York Times, Centric Brands, Barneys, New York City Ballet, Swans, Disney, rockstar, Old, America ., Collins Group, Vogue, Bloomberg, Council of Fashion Designers of America, New York, Dôen Locations: Posen, San Francisco Bay, New, Banana Republic, Athleta, San Francisco, Oxford, Zara, North America, Asia, China, Republic, New York City, American, London, Bloomsbury, Balthazar, SoHo, Rome, Italy, New York, America, America . Banana

☆ How Much Money Did This Year’s Met Gala Raise?
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-07 | by ( Callie Holtermann | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

At the Met Gala on Monday, a throng of photographers fought to capture Zendaya and Kim Kardashian parading couture gowns down the red (technically, mouthwash-green) carpet. This year’s event raised about $26 million for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, according to a spokeswoman. That’s a $4 million increase over last year’s total, and more than double what the event raised a decade ago, in 2014. The most recent fall gala for the New York City Ballet raised just short of $4 million, and the American Museum of Natural History’s gala brought in $2.5 million. Even The Met’s other events do not compare: Its Art & Artists Gala raised $4.4 million last year.

Persons: Zendaya, Kim Kardashian, That’s, ”, Rachel Feinberg, “ Organizations: Metropolitan Museum, Art’s Costume, New York City Ballet, American Museum, Natural, Elmhurst Hospital Locations: New York City, Queens

NEW YORK (AP) — It's a new location but the same host for the Tony Awards:Ariana DeBose will make it three in a row as MC of theater's most watched event, which this year moves uptown to Lincoln Center. “I couldn’t pass up the chance to host the Tonys one more time, at Lincoln Center. Photos You Should See View All 60 ImagesLike last year, the three-hour main telecast will air on CBS and stream on Paramount+ from 8 p.m.-11 p.m. EDT/5 p.m.-8 p.m. PDT with a pre-show on Pluto TV, with some Tony Awards handed out there. The Tony eligibility cut-off date for the 2023-2024 season is April 25, and nominations for the 2024 Tony Awards will be announced April 30. The awards are presented by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing.

Persons: —, Ariana DeBose, Tony, ”, DeBose, ” “ Hamilton, ” “, Steven Spielberg’s, David H, Kimberly Akimbo ”, Tom Stoppard’s “, Sean Hayes, Victoria Clark, “ Kimberly Akimbo, ” ___ Mark Kennedy Organizations: Lincoln Center, The, Broadway, Hollywood, United, Theatre, “ Company, ”, Apple, Koch, New York City Ballet, Lincoln Square Theater, Beaumont, CBS, Paramount, The Broadway League, American Theatre Locations: “, New

☆ Watch: The Solo of ‘Solitude’
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-25 | by ( Gia Kourlas | Stephan Alessi | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Watch: The Solo of ‘Solitude’Click through as Joseph Gordon performs a section from Alexei Ratmansky’s new dance for New York City Ballet, a reaction to the horrors of the war in Ukraine.

Persons: Joseph Gordon, Alexei Ratmansky’s Organizations: New York City Ballet Locations: Ukraine

☆ At City Ballet, 2 Sparkling Premieres and Many Moments to Remember
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-08 | by ( Gia Kourlas | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

For a company to unveil a decent new ballet is a strange and marvelous occurrence. To unveil two in one season? Quality choreography that celebrates classicism, that highlights musicality — that even pushes the form into new realms — isn’t the norm. But at New York City Ballet this season, two premieres were worthy of many more viewings — and in the case of Alexei Ratmansky’s harrowing “Solitude,” set to Mahler, endless ones. Inspired by a 2022 photo of a Ukrainian father kneeling before the body of his dead son, the ballet filled the stage with bodies expressing the tangible ache of grief and love.

Persons: Alexei Ratmansky’s, ”, Mahler, Ratmansky, —, “, Tiler Peck, Francis Poulenc, Peck, Peter Martins, Jerome Robbins, George Balanchine’s, Mary Thomas MacKinnon’s Organizations: New York City Ballet, City Ballet, della Locations: New, Ukrainian, della Regina

☆ New York’s School of American Ballet Toasts 90th Anniversary
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Sarah Bahr | Dolly Faibyshev | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

When the choreographer George Balanchine co-founded the School of American Ballet in New York City in 1934, the last thing on many people’s minds was dance. The United States was still digging out from the Great Depression and often children dropped out of school to work. But nonetheless, the 29-year-old Balanchine believed a dance school was crucial to establishing a professional ballet company — which would become New York City Ballet. Now, 90 years later, the school he opened with 32 students has exploded into the most prestigious academy for young dancers in the United States. Nearly 800 students from 34 states and 12 countries were enrolled at the school’s Lincoln Center campus in the most recent fiscal year, and graduates serve as artistic directors at more than 18 ballet programs around the country, including Los Angeles Ballet, Miami City Ballet and New York City Ballet.

Persons: George Balanchine, Balanchine Organizations: School of American Ballet, New York City Ballet, Lincoln Center, Los Angeles Ballet, Miami City Ballet Locations: New York City, United States, New, Lincoln

☆ Review: Alexei Ratmansky Unleashes the Pain of War at City Ballet
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-16 | by ( Gia Kourlas | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Or, worse, when that world is breaking down with such vehemence that the air seems to grow more toxic by the minute? In Alexei Ratmansky’s new ballet “Solitude,” dancers waver and buckle as inner and outer forces wreak havoc on their bodies. Ratmansky’s latest ballet, his first as artist in residence at New York City Ballet, is about war — the devastating war in Ukraine, the country where Ratmansky grew up and where his parents still live. That grief — the solitude of “Solitude” — is apparent from the start. The principal dancer Joseph Gordon kneels before the limp body of Theo Rochios, a young student of the company-affiliated School of American Ballet.

Persons: Alexei Ratmansky’s, Gustav Mahler, Ratmansky, David H, Joseph Gordon, Theo Rochios, Gordon Organizations: New York City Ballet, Koch, American Ballet, Rochios Locations: New, Ukraine, Russian, Kharkiv

☆ Review: Twyla Tharp From Three Sides Now
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-14 | by ( Siobhan Burke | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Twyla Tharp takes making dances very seriously but, at 82, she appears to be having some fun with it — and even poking fun at herself, lightly, in the process. That boisterous ballet closes a program that shows three sides of Tharp, beginning with the punchy “Ocean’s Motion” (1975) and continuing with “Brel,” an introspective new solo for the American Ballet Theater principal Herman Cornejo. (The New York City Ballet principal Daniel Ulbricht performs it on alternate nights.) While “The Ballet Master” concerns itself with the choreographer’s inner world, “Brel” zooms in on the dancer’s. Before any contemporary self-reflection, though, Tharp takes us back to where she’s been.

Persons: Twyla Tharp, Tharp, “ Brel, Herman Cornejo, Daniel Ulbricht, Brel, she’s, Chuck Berry, quintessentially Tharp, —, Miriam Gittens sassily, Jake Tribus Organizations: Joyce, American Ballet Theater, New York City Ballet

☆ Together ‘There Was Magic’: Two Fluid Dancers in Our Racing Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-14 | by ( Gia Kourlas | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Ashton Edwards rushed across the stage and straight into Taylor Stanley’s arms on a Sunday afternoon at New York City Ballet. In “The Times Are Racing,” a fervent ballet by Justin Peck, that hug is part of the choreography — a freeze-frame of raw emotion, like a stop sign dropped into a sea of hurtling, sweeping bodies. The embrace is a signal for a new beginning: an intimate pas de deux that unfolds like a dream within a dream. Their performance glowed, and not just because it was newsworthy: This was the first pairing of two nonbinary dancers in a major pas de deux at City Ballet. But what mattered more was the energy between their physical forms; the warmth they radiated even at a distance; and their phrasing, which was so fluid that at times they seemed less two bodies than one.

Persons: Ashton Edwards, Taylor, ”, Justin Peck, “, ” Edwards, Edwards, Stanley Organizations: New York City Ballet, Times, City Ballet Locations: New

☆ A War-Haunted Choreographer Steps Into a New Role at City Ballet
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-10 | by ( Marina Harss | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For the choreographer Alexei Ratmansky, the last two years have brought an uncomfortable intermingling of life and art. “My parents in Kyiv are awoken at night by explosions,” he said in an interview at Lincoln Center. “It gets harder and harder and heavier because no one sees any light. Ratmansky, 55, has kept the image filed away, part of a mental gallery of the horrors of war. Now it has found its way into a dance, his first for New York City Ballet in his new role as artist in residence.

Persons: Alexei Ratmansky, “, ”, can’t, Gustav Mahler Organizations: Lincoln Center, New York City Ballet Locations: Ukraine, Kyiv, Kharkiv

☆ 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

☆ From Ballet to Blackjack, a Dance Pioneer’s Amazing Odyssey
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-04 | by ( Siobhan Burke | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Pictured in a publicity shot for the original production of “George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker,” in the role known as Tea, was a young Asian dancer identified as George Li. For Lin, a veteran newspaper reporter turned documentarian, the picture raised intriguing questions. In 1954, when the photo was taken, it was rare to see dancers of color on the stage of New York City Ballet, the company Balanchine co-founded. Who was this young man, this breaker of racial barriers, this pioneer? And if so, what was he up to?

Persons: George Lee, he’s, Lee, Jennifer Lin, George Balanchine’s, George Li, Lin, Balanchine Organizations: Four Queens, New York Public Library, Performing Arts, New York City Ballet Locations: Las Vegas, Casino, New

All the while Eliza Babinska charged along, energy spilling out of her body like sparks of electricity. “Eliza hates this,” Vasilisa, her older sister, said with a giggle. When Vasilisa first saw her perform, she said: “I was like, that’s my sister? I saw her face, and I was like, whoa.”Even the way Eliza holds her head in class is imposingly regal. On the subway, her chin started to droop, almost as heavily as her eyelids.

Persons: Pati, Eliza Babinska, —, “ Eliza, ” Vasilisa, Eliza, Julia, Vasilisa, “ Organizations: New York City Ballet, School, American Ballet Locations: Queens, Manhattan, barre, droop

☆ Maria Tallchief, America’s first prima ballerina, continues to inspire new generations of Native American dancers
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Kaitlyn Schwanemann | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —The Osage Ballet overlooks a creek in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, on the Osage Indian reservation. The Osage Ballet hopes to continue to inspire a new generations of dancers in her honor. But Tallchief refused and insisted on dancing as Maria Tallchief, keeping her Osage name, according to a biography of the ballerina by the School of American Ballet. Ballerina Maria Tallchief WATFORD/Mirrorpix/Getty ImagesElise Paschen, Tallchief’s daughter and a poet, told CNN her mother took great pride in her heritage. Smith said she hopes the Osage Ballet will continue Tallchief’s pioneering legacy of dance and Native American representation in ballet.

Persons: Elizabeth Marie Tallchief, Randy Tinker Smith, she’s, “ I’ve, ” Smith, America’s, Tallchief, Maria Tallchief, Ballerina Maria Tallchief, Elise Paschen, ” Paschen, ” Kate Mattingly, ” Mattingly, Mattingly, Tallcheif, George Balanchine, Balanchine, John Martin, “, “ Balanchine, Paschen, ”, ” Tallchief, Princess Wa, Smith, ballerinas, Maria Organizations: CNN, Osage Ballet, Osage, New, School of American Ballet, Ballerina Maria Tallchief WATFORD, Old Dominion University, New York City Ballet, Firebird, The New York Times, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Ballet Locations: Pawhuska , Oklahoma, Fairfax , Oklahoma, Osage, Beverly Hills, Carlo, Oklahoma, United States, Europe, Swan Lake, An

☆ Ready to Retire? Consider Your Family First.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Joanne Kaufman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

But unable to make a final decision she asked her elder daughter, a college administrator in Richmond, Va., to come north and weigh in. Her daughter did as requested, only to suggest that her parents consider another option altogether: a senior living community in Richmond. “I asked her, ‘Why on earth would I do that?’” recalled Mrs. Genoni, now 79. “And then she told us, ‘Sooner or later one or both of you are going to need an advocate,’” Mrs. Genoni recalled. “‘Why would you make me worry about you from a distance when you could be living near me?’”

Persons: Marta Genoni, Kenneth, “, ’ ”, Genoni, ‘, ’ Organizations: New York City Ballet, New York Philharmonic, ‘ Sooner Locations: Westfield, N.J, Richmond , Va, Richmond, New Jersey

☆ At Ballet Theater, a Thrilling Puck and a Moment to Take Stock
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Brian Seibert | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Where “The Dream,” a Ballet Theater staple in recent decades, is a reliable showcase for the company’s theatricality, George Balanchine’s “Ballet Imperial,” on the same program, is good for displaying the troupe’s classical chops across its ranks. Unlike New York City Ballet, which has called the work “Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2” since the 1970s, Ballet Theater doesn’t downplay the imperial Russian associations, using a backdrop of St. Petersburg. That’s a choice that might disturb some viewers, but Ballet Theater’s rendition also had aesthetic problems. De la Nuez goes for it, too.

Persons: George Balanchine’s, ”, That’s, Skylar Brandt, Isabella Boylston, James Whiteside, Alonzo King’s, Alexei Ratmansky’s “, Jason Moran, Robert Rosenwasser, Jim French, Brandt, Calvin Royal III, King, Michael de la, De la Nuez Organizations: Ballet, New York City Ballet, Dnipro ” Locations: St . Petersburg

☆ New York City Ballet Review: Back to Balanchine
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-11 | by ( Robert Greskovic | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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Persons: Dow Jones, balanchine

NEW YORK (AP) — Theater fans, mark your calendars: This season's Tony Awards will take place on June 16 at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. Producers of the show announced the date and new location Wednesday. Next year's location — the David H. Koch Theater — is the home of New York City Ballet and in the same sprawling building complex as Lincoln Square Theater, which houses the Broadway venue Beaumont Theater. The Tony eligibility cut-off date for the 2023-2024 season is April 25, and nominations for the 2024 Tony Awards will be announced April 30. The awards are presented by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing.

Persons: Tony, David H, — Organizations: —, Lincoln Center, Performing Arts, Producers, United Palace Theatre, Times, Koch, New York City Ballet, Lincoln Square Theater, Beaumont Theater, The Broadway League, American Theatre Wing Locations: New York City, Washington Heights, Manhattan, New

☆ As City Ballet Celebrates Its 75th, Dancers (Hundreds) Take a Bow
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-20 | by ( Gia Kourlas | More About Gia Kourlas | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

George Balanchine, by his own admission, always admired jewels, a quality he attributed to his Georgian roots. “I like the color of gems, the beauty of stones,” he wrote in “101 Stories of the Great Ballets.”When, in 1967, the curtain rose at New York City Ballet on his opulent triptych, known as the first full-length plotless ballet, it had no unifying title. “Emeralds” possesses the fragrant earthiness and secrecy of nature; “Rubies” is heat and playfulness, with the games and posturing of a summer scape in New York City; and “Diamonds” casts a dazzling spell of cool refinement that wavers between soft and hard. “Jewels,” as it came to be called, is an occasion as well as a ballet. (The music was performed live, though before the show, members of the New York City Ballet Orchestra held a rally in front of Lincoln Center’s plaza to protest delays in contract negotiations.)

Persons: George Balanchine, ”, Balanchine, Lincoln Kirstein, Suzanne Farrell, Allegra Kent, Patricia McBride, Edward Villella — Organizations: New York City Ballet, City, Lincoln Center, New York City Ballet Orchestra Locations: New, New York City, Lincoln

☆ Erik Aschengreen, 88, Dies; Historian and Critic Illuminated Danish Dance
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-15 | by ( Alastair Macaulay | More About Alastair Macaulay | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The 1979, 1992, and 2005 festivals of Bournonville’s ballets flooded the Royal Danish Theater in Copenhagen with dance authorities from many countries. Mr. Aschengreen did much to welcome, entertain and enlighten them as a spokesman at many presentations by the Danish company. From 1964 to 2005 Mr. Aschengreen was the dance critic for the Copenhagen-based Berlingske Tidende (now known simply as Berlingske), one of the world’s oldest newspapers still in print. He also taught ballet history at the Royal Danish Ballet School from 1971 to 1993 and dance history at the Danish School of Contemporary Dance from its founding in 1990. He traveled extensively to see international dance and to investigate dance education.

Persons: Erik Bruhn, Peter Martins, Ib Andersen, Nikolaj Hübbe, August Bournonville, Aschengreen, ”, Alexei Ratmansky, Marina Harss, Ratmansky Organizations: Royal Danish Ballet, Royal Danish Theater, New York City Ballet, Berlingske Tidende, University of Copenhagen, Royal Danish Ballet School, Danish School of Contemporary Locations: Danish, America, Denmark, United States, Copenhagen, Ukrainian American

☆ Finding ‘Ghost Collaborators’ for an All-American Ballet
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Brian Seibert | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The original “Filling Station” was created for Ballet Caravan, a short-lived touring company led by the impresario Lincoln Kirstein, as part of his long effort to establish ballet in the United States. It was a mix of ballet bravura, vaudeville gags and comic-strip aesthetics. (A 1954 television performance by dancers from New York City Ballet, which Kirstein founded with George Balanchine in 1948, can be found on YouTube.) Kirstein described the gas station setting as an invitingly familiar one, a crossroads where different kinds of “recognizable social types” could meet. “There was a lot of difference in the space, and I was working not to collapse us into the same hole,” Jones said.

Persons: Lincoln Kirstein, Kirstein, George Balanchine, Lutz, Kinoy, he’s, ”, “, ” Jones, Maxfield Haynes, Mina Nishimura Organizations: Ballet, New York City Ballet, YouTube, Lincoln, Museum of Modern Art Locations: United States, New, Kinoy’s, Kirstein

☆ The Long Life and Long Reach of George Balanchine’s Butterflies
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-09 | by ( Brian Seibert | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

While celebrating its 75th anniversary this fall, New York City Ballet is performing 18 ballets by its founding choreographer, George Balanchine. But to get a sense of the global standing of Balanchine, 40 years after his death, other numbers might be more telling. Last year, for instance, around 50 other ballet companies across the world performed his works, about 75 dances in total. Balanchine likened his ballets to butterflies: “They live for a season.” But they have lasted much longer than that. They have become classics, cornerstones of the international repertory, 20th-century equivalents of 19th-century staples like “Swan Lake,” danced everywhere by all the major ballet companies and most of the minor ones, too.

Persons: George Balanchine, Balanchine, ” Organizations: New York City Ballet, Ballet Locations: New, ”, America

☆ New York City Ballet Was in Peril. Then Came a Revival.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-09 | by ( Javier C. Hernández | More About Javier C. Hernández | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

City Ballet also expanded its presence on Facebook, Instagram and other platforms, taking users behind the scenes of productions like “The Nutcracker” and posting interviews with dancers about their lives outside of ballet. Taylor, a finance leader and the partner of former New York City mayor Michael R. Bloomberg who, in 2021, became the first woman to serve as board chair in City Ballet’s history, worked to galvanize donors. When a potential board member expressed concern about joining “my grandmother’s dance company,” Taylor assured her that City Ballet was not beholden to the past, noting premieres by Peck and others. Donations rose significantly; the spring gala this year, which was attended by Bloomberg, took in $3.5 million, breaking records. As the financial picture improved, City Ballet worked to make its culture more collaborative and inclusive.

Persons: Taylor, Michael R, ” Taylor, Peck, “ Balanchine Organizations: Koch, City Ballet, Facebook, New, New York City, Bloomberg, Ballet Locations: New York

☆ Robert Gottlieb Didn’t Just Shape Manuscripts. He Shaped Dance, Too.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Alastair Macaulay | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The world of letters has been mourning Robert Gottlieb, who died last week at 92, as a reader and editor of qualities that became legendary. The world of dance has been mourning him as well. He neither performed nor choreographed, but he played a major role, often behind the scenes, in fostering American dance. He ran influential works of dance criticism as editor of The New Yorker, and he later became a dance critic himself for The New York Observer. Perhaps less widely known was the key role he played behind the scenes at New York City Ballet, where he served on the board of directors.

Persons: Robert Gottlieb, Alfred A ., Mikhail Baryshnikov, Arlene Croce, Margot Fonteyn, Lincoln Kirstein, Natalia Makarova, Paul Taylor, “, Alfred Knopf, ”, ” Gottlieb —, Bob, —, George Balanchine, Balanchine Organizations: Alfred A . Knopf, Yorker, The New York Observer, New York City Ballet, The, City Center, Ballet Society, City Ballet, Sadler’s, Ballet, Metropolitan Opera House Locations: New

☆ ‘It’s About Connections’: Alicia Graf Mack Remakes Juilliard Dance
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Brian Seibert | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The Juilliard dance department, under her leadership, seems like a happy place. Raised in Columbia, Md., she joined Dance Theater of Harlem at 17 and was an immediate standout: a tall, long-limbed, exceptionally graceful ballerina. Told she was too tall by American Ballet Theater and New York City Ballet, Mack reinvented herself again, becoming a star of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and greatly expanding her stylistic range into modern, contemporary and hip-hop. Asked back by the Ailey company, she squeezed out a few more years, then moved into teaching dance at Washington University and Webster University in St. Louis. A child of professors, she found her “happy place” at universities, she said, and realized that helping serious students on the cusp of their careers was what she wanted to do.

Persons: Mack, ”, “, Alvin Ailey, St . Louis Organizations: Juilliard, Dance Theater of Harlem, Columbia University, American Ballet Theater, New York City Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Ailey, Washington University, Webster University Locations: Columbia, Md, St .

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