by Jacquelyn Thayer “Hell is empty and all the devils are here,” was the quote that kept intruding upon me, quietly but insistently, while watching the debut of the Joffrey Ballet’s made-for-digital Boléro, a 16-minute piece choreographed by company artist Yoshihisa Arai and starring Anais Bueno, set to Maurice Ravel’s infamously repetitive composition. Not to…
With the season return of Dancing With the Stars, each Tuesday Moving in Measure will be recapping the previous night’s episode by highlighting three (or so) dances worth a watch — or rewatch. Allowances are made for a celebrity’s reasonable level of technique; we’re evaluating these things on a sliding scale. 1. Gymnasts are not…
Heather Ogden and McGee Maddox in The Four Temperaments (Photo by Cylla von Tiedemann, courtesy of the National Ballet of Canada) by Jacquelyn Thayer Modes of modern form the surest throughline in the National Ballet of Canada’s mixed program featuring a pair of Balanchine classics and Alexander Ekman’s daring Cacti. While two pieces —…
