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,
By Marisa C. Hayes “How would you dance if you knew you were going to die?” asked Pina Bausch in 1975 while choreographing her expressionist The Rite of Spring. Now a cast of dancers from 14 African nations explores the same question amid the backdrop of an ongoing pandemic that grounded their international tour in
By Michael Crabb It’s mid-October, almost six weeks until the premiere of the National Ballet of Canada’s two-million-dollar aspiring blockbuster, MADDADDAM, and much remains to be done. “There were four weeks I was really making material,” says the acclaimed British choreographer Wayne McGregor. “I was trying to invent, to get stuff out of my head,