Measure the Music: Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite

BY JAKE PADILLA For the past two months, Stance on Dance has been focusing on ballet with perspectives from various dance artists and the occasional Bunion knocking famous ballets. To close all this ballet hullabaloo, let’s rock out to Igor Stravinsky’s Firebird. Starting at measure 206 from the finale of the Firebird […]

March 13, 2014  |  Read Article

Ballet from a Beginner’s Perspective

BY EMILY DOLSON These days, whenever I find myself in socks on a hardwood floor, I cannot help stretching my toes over the smooth boards into the firm point of a tendu. Sometimes, I prance around my Brooklyn apartment pretending that I know more steps than I do, but putting […]

March 6, 2014  |  Read Article

The Saut-de-tude

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT STARRING EMILY JONES; MUSIC BY JAKE PADILLA Ballet this, ballet that. Are you sick of reading all these perspectives on ballet and want to see some action? Emily Jones is the dancer for you. She pushes beyond the ballet syllabus and creates her own steps. Her dumBEST move? […]

March 3, 2014  |  Read Article

Flask Your Way Through March’s Dance Shows

BY RYAN KELLEY AND EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Are you considering seeing a dance show at some point this March? Might I make a suggestion? Don’t go dry. Yes, that’s right. Take a flask. Sip your way through port de bras, kicks and turns. Glug your way through duets making use of […]

February 27, 2014  |  Read Article

Iggy & Roo

Reflections on Teaching Ballet BY SIOBHAN SEARLE TONARELLI Iggy and Roo … Igor Zelensky and Farukh Ruzimatov, affectionately and practically renamed by my family one summer many years ago when the two joined the ever-growing list of dancers I regularly referred to in our ballet discussions. Ballet was an inexhaustible […]

February 24, 2014  |  Read Article