By Marcie Sillman When Kent Stowell and Francia Russell arrived in Seattle in 1977 to take the reins of a five-year old ballet company, they had one big goal: “We wanted to make a company and a school that we would be proud to be part of as dancers,” Russell recalls. Forty-five years later, the
By Victor Swoboda Displaced by war, 60 Ukrainian dancers, artists, and technicians have hastily joined a new company called United Ukrainian Ballet based in the Netherlands. “I read about the war every day, but I try to do it less often because I get too worried,” said one of the company’s ballerinas, Anastasia Mirraslavska, 26,
By Gerard Davis Rudolf Nureyev has become an almost mythological name in ballet. Probably best known for his 1961 defection to the West from the Soviet Union and for his partnership with Margot Fonteyn, he transformed the art form he loved through his dancing, choreography, and international stardom. If you asked anyone in the world