ballet
Restless Creature : Wendy Whelan
The sheer power of documentary is nowhere more apparent than in this excellent affectionate profile of the end of the remarkable career of Wendy Whelan on the eve of her retirement from the NY City Ballet after an unprecedented 30 years with the Company. For non-balletomanes and non-Americans whose education never included the opportunity to…
Dancing by Moonlight
UK Premiere of Dancer with Live Performance
British fans of ballet’s ‘bad boy’ Sergei Polunin, unquestionably one of the greatest dancers of his generation (and one of the hottest too) are in for a real treat. When the new documentary on his life from filmmaker Steven Cantor, and simply called Dancer, premieres in the UK on March 2nd 2017 at the London…
NY: Justin Pecks swaps ballet pumps for sneakers
January 26th 2017 sees the world premiere of The Times Are Racing the latest work by New York City Ballet star choreographer and principal dancer Justin Peck. According to an interview in The New York Times, Peck said he had started choreographing the dance before the presidential election, but after Donald J. Trump won, he said, the…
