By Victor Swoboda As part of the 20th anniversary of Festival Quartiers Danse, Malandain Ballet Biarritz staged Nocturnes at the Wilder Building’s Studio-Theatre. Intrigued by the darker side of Chopin’s music, company founder/choreographer Thierry Malandain moved his dancers along a narrow strip amid a pervasive gloom, an arrangement that, according to program notes, recalled medieval
By Naomi Mori Tokyo City Ballet’s Swan Lake is noteworthy for the stage design by École de Paris painter Léonard Foujita, who created it for the first ever Japanese production of Swan Lake in 1946, for Tokyo Ballet (not the same company that is currently active) when Tokyo was still in the aftermath of World
By Gary Smith For Agnes Su, the 26-year-old Stuttgart Ballet principal, old hesitancies are finally gone. The sure knowledge she belongs where she stands has unleashed a remarkable stage presence that is captivating audiences and critics alike. “I didn’t really think of myself as a principal dancer until now,” Su says, sitting at trendy Plenum,