We sit down with Ballet Black’s artistic director Cassa Pancho and dancers Isabela Coracy and Ebony Thomas, to discover the challenges and achievements of the company’s first 25 years.
From Buxtehude, Bach and Handel, to contemporary composer Liza Lim, we take a tour of the myriad forms of composers’ handwriting and calligraphy – and how music makes itself on the page.
A century after its founding in 1926, former members of Ballet Rambert recall the joys and challenges of working directly with Dame Marie Rambert, one of the trailblazers of British ballet.
The great ballerinas of the 19th century were perhaps the first modern celebrities. Rather than bare all, their images cultivated a mysterious, supernatural aura that made them seem unattainable.
Jenifer Sarver was the first American to be hired as soloist with the ballet of the Teatr Wielki in Lodz, Poland, and has also been a soloist with Ireland’s Cork City Ballet, a member of the Slovene National Ballet (Maribor, Slovenia), the Opera na Zamku (Szczecin, Poland), the San Diego Ballet and the California Ballet. Ms. Sarver has also been a guest principal dancer and performed the complete classical repertoire. She has enjoyed two full-time assistant professorships, served as an artistic director for a regional ballet company and taught, choreographed and set repertoire all over the world.
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