Sur Les Pointes!
Go here for the Spring 2009 issue.
Louisville Ballet: Bolding Taking Us Where (Some Of Us) Have Never Gone
A couple of seasons back Louisville Ballet gave its audiences a taste of choreographer Mark Godden in the guise of his version of Mozart’s The Magic Flute (which he first created for Canada’s Royal Winnepeg Ballet), where Tamino—here a TV junkie in a smoking jacket—enters not from stage right or left, but is dropped from [...]
What Will It Take?
I love hosting guest artists at Knoxville Ballet School. I get a chance to cross my own threshold in civilian clothing, for a change, and watch young dancers respond to somebody else standing at the front of the room. This experience usually shakes me to my core, as I witness a fresh take on classical [...]
Welcome Back, Louisville
It is spring break at Knoxville Ballet School, but in a few short days Louisville Ballet School returns to KBS to give a Summer Intensives 2009 audition class. This year LBS Director Elena Fillmore is giving the audition with a twist: the class is open to non-candidates for summer intensives, as well (auditionees will wear [...]