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Bess Kargman’s documentary film, FIRST POSITION, lays out the stories of seven young ballet dancers vying for recognition, scholarships and company contracts in the annual Youth America Grand Prix. The film takes an honest and sympathetic look at the world of pre-professional ballet competition as each competitor makes his way through the year-long competition. The focus on two of the dancers, Michaela DePrince and Joan Sebastian Zamora and their unusual stories is particularly moving.

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Steven Woodruff reviews Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg in their recent performance of Don Quixote. Eifman has made a name for himself recasting classic ballets and classic literature for the stage.This version revives his 1994 original choreography.

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It’s been just over a year since I started writing reviews covering dance and music. This story is a kind of memoire of the year. It includes some humor but mostly it addresses the serious concerns of reviewing. Use the links to find the reviews.

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Review of Method Contemporary Dance
Program:"Then See If you Still Love Us"
May 6-9 2010 at Bootleg Theater,Los Angeles

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Angelin Preljocaj, the Artistic Director of Ballet Preljocaj, in his version of Snow White, has imagined a fantastical as well as unlikely universe where contemporary dance, expansive romantic music (Mahler) and sex-charged, alt fashion costuming (Jean Paul Gaultier) intersect. Much of the ballet also has a cinematic appeal, though it was originally made for the stage. The ballet exists in a version for film that coincided with the production’s first stage performances in 2008. Reviewed in LA.

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The Royal Danish Ballet is currently on tour with their time travelling version of Napoli, which is set on the island of Capri in the 1950s. This version owes a debt to Italian cinema and features brilliant new music by Louise Alenius for Act Two.

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I first saw the Joffrey’s Nutcracker more than fifteen years ago It struck me then as being a particularly beautiful production.The staging and design for Waltz of the Snowflakes alone was well worth the price of admission. Happily, that is still true.It was good to see that the Currier and Ives vision of Robert Joffrey and Gerald Arpino hadn’t lost any of its stunning picturesque qualities in the absence of the company’s two original founders. The programs at the Dorothy Chandler Pavillion

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DT are going to continue to be the darlings of Euro-zone dance for some time to come. They made a strong statement to that effect with their mid-week programs on Dance at the Music Center. On the program, Silent
Screen and The Second Person.

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L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, Mark Morris’ visually stunning ballet based on the combined glories Handel’s music and Milton’s poetics wove it’s magic over a crowded audience Thursday evening, charming equally those with dance in their

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Kenneth Cooper was in residence at the Collburn School for a week preparing a concert of all the Brandenburg
concertos. Several concertos featured unusual versions of the standard arrangements and instrumentation.
Cooper conducted from the keyboard.