Standouts: Our 12 favorite performances of 2009
Dec 2009/Jan 2010 We’ve all experienced it—a performance so striking that you leave the theater entranced, wishing it didn’t have to end. Each year, dancers all over the country wow us. It might be...
View ArticleLiving Doll
August/September 2007 One dancer's approach to dancing Swanilda in Coppelia. Of all the full-length classical ballets, Coppélia charms audiences with humor above everything else. The ballet tells the...
View Article#TBT: Lisa Bolte dancing the Prayer Variation from Coppélia (1990)
Many Romantic ballets revolve around tragedy when dealing with love and romance. However, some simply attempt to replicate the joy of dancing, and produce little conflict other than a delayed marriage...
View ArticleWhen Franz Met Swanilda
October/November 2014 Sarah Lane and Daniil Simkin on rehearsing "Coppélia" In a rehearsal before their Lincoln Center performance of Coppélia last May, Sarah Lane and Daniil Simkin ran through some of...
View Article#TBT: Leanne Benjamin as Swanhilda in "Coppèlia" (2000)
Among the set, costuming and score of a ballet, movement becomes the most powerful form of expression—especially in romantic-era story ballets, which entertain and convey a plot without words. Thus,...
View Article#TBT: The Australian Ballet dances Coppélia with Lise Pavane
Nothing provides more comfort than catching your best friend’s eye during a performance, or realizing that someone familiar is dancing by your side. And when a ballet’s choreography caters to...
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