Film
The Dizzying Contradictions in Contemporary Classical Ballet
The dancers we grow to know (and love) in Swan Song are sweating, swearing, soaring women, at odds with conceptions of purity and frailness.
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News
Oklahoma's Beloved Statue of Native American Ballerina Stolen and Sold for $250
A sculpture of Marjorie Tallchief, a ballerina of Osage descent, was stolen from the Tulsa Historical Society and sold for parts to a recycling center.
Performance
A Ballet Redefines “Wokeness”
Dwight Rhoden’s galvanizing protest rally of a ballet takes on topical issues, while bridging popular music with arguably the most conservative form of dance.
Art
Seven Collaborations Between Women Choreographers and Artists
Happening April 7–9, Norte Maar and Brooklyn Ballet's CounterPointe series pairs visual artists with choreographers who are making new work for pointe.
Performance
Drag Ballerinas Spin Gender Roles into Farce
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo satirizes the clichéd gender conventions of dance, and the world at large, in technically superb takes on classical ballet.
Art
How Five American Indian Dancers Transformed Ballet in the 20th Century
Five dancers who started their careers in the 1940s redefined dance in the United States, becoming some of the first American prima ballerinas in the world's top companies, from the Ballets Russes to the Paris Opera Ballet.
Performance
Three Famous Artists Collaborate on One Empty Spectacle
Tree of Codes brings together the efforts of three major names from three different disciplines: Wayne McGregor, the award-winning British choreographer; Danish-Icelandic visual artist and light wizard Olafur Eliasson; and electronic music producer Jamie xx, one third of the band the xx.
Performance
A Mashup of Ballet and Postmodern Dance
Dance is a curious thing: an art form that both defies and relies on genre distinctions.
Performance
Transforming the Beauty of Ballet into Something Kafkaesque
The story of a man who wakes up transformed into a hideous insect isn't exactly the showpiece you would imagine for a lithe principal of London's Royal Ballet, but in The Metamorphosis dancer Edward Watson takes all the refined control of each muscle and transforms his body from grace into an image
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Announcement
[Sponsor] Norte Maar Presents "The Brodmann Areas," April 12–15
Norte Maar invites you to The Brodmann Areas [http://engine.nectarads.com/redirect/0/12452/12490/0/00000000000000000000000000000000/0/0/19152/0], a new collaborative ballet that explores the workings of our minds through dance. The ballet will take place at the Center for Performance Research (361 M
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Tonight, Party for Bushwick's First Ballet
We don't have definitive proof that Norte Maar's In the Use of Others for the Change will be the first-ever modern ballet in Bushwick, Brooklyn but we think it just might be. As an added bonus … tonight (Friday, April 1, 9pm - closing), Bushwick watering hole, Bodega Wine Bar, welcomes fans of Norte