Has the rarefied world of French ballet come under the sway of American-style “cancel culture?” The director of Paris Opera, home also to France’s top ballet company, has been accused
What might seem to others like an annus horribilis for Lisa Macuja Elizalde, CEO and artistic director of Ballet Manila (BM), she now sees as just a year of adapting
In 1994, dancer-ballet mistress Persady “Perry” Sevidal took a leap of faith by leaving Ballet Philippines after 15 years to open her namesake school in Makati. Twenty-six years later, she
While performing arts companies worldwide have practically written off 2020 due to the pandemic, Ballet Philippines (BP) believes “the show must go on.”Since the Cultural Center of the Philippines is
“The dancer is dying and her arms move with the fluid lightness of a bird on its valedictory flight. Her ebbing life is set to the plaintive score of
NEW YORK — A ballerina in Australia floats across the dining room floor in a hijab. Another leaps in the air on a rooftop in the Philippines, while still another
Sydney, Australia | AFP | Tuesday 3/3/2020 – 09:08 UTC+8 American Ballet Theater principal dancer David Hallberg has been appointed the new artistic director of the Australian Ballet, the
Moscow, Russia | AFP | Sunday 3/1/2020 – 09:56 UTC+8 By: Andrea Palasciano Craftsman Sergei Murza runs his fingers over the pink satin of a pointe shoe he has
MIAMI — Lusian Hernandez’s eyes watered when she recalled receiving a free pair of pointe shoes after arriving in Miami on a dance scholarship as her native Venezuela descended into
The pink ballet shoes arrived in a red box, but the pair was a few sizes smaller than expected. Such was the uncertainty of ordering online. Rather than returning or
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