By Gary Smith With his 1978 Mayerling, English choreographer Kenneth MacMillan went to some very dark places to tell a historic story of love, lust, and troubled politics, played out against a fever-pitched passion that threatened a kingdom. Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, his mistress Countess Larisch, his wife Princess Stephanie of Belgium, and young
By Elaine Gaertner For Joysanne Sidimus, the path to becoming a repetiteur for the George Balanchine repertoire began in 1969 while she was a principal dancer with the newly formed Pennsylvania Ballet. That’s when she first staged Serenade, a ballet she had performed numerous times as a corps member with New York City Ballet, and
By Kristen Lawson Calder White believes that contemporary dance needs to make itself more accessible in order to reach more people. “The contemporary dance world can be quite insular,” he says. “It uses a language that not very many people speak.” White maintains that for this art form to be understood and valued by the