Two major ballet dancers will be starring with the Boca Ballet Theatre this month in the company’s production of The Sleeping Beauty, Tchaikovsky and Petipa’s 1890 classic drawn from Charles Perrault’s Mother Goose tales. Dancing the lead role of Aurora will be Bridgett Zehr, a Sarasota-born, Harid-trained dancer who has been a principal dancer with the National Ballet of … [Read more...]
Anderson and Roe, dancers brilliant in Stravinsky at CMSPB
Pianists Greg Anderson and Elizabeth Roe brought a capacity crowd of 280 to their concert in the Grand Ballroom of Mar-a-Lago on March 20. The largest audience yet for this fledgling arts organization heard expert playing and superb dancing by students from the Dreyfoos School of the Arts in Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring. The pianists met at the Julliard School in New York in … [Read more...]
MCB’s dancers uneven in ‘triple threat’ at Kravis
By Tara Mitton Catao Artistic Director Lourdes Lopez opened Miami City Ballet’s Program III at the Kravis Center on Friday night and introduced two company premieres that two dance legends — George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins — created decades ago. Lopez, who danced as a soloist and principal with New York City Ballet under the tutelage of these trend-changing … [Read more...]
Creative courage, innovation keep Pilobolus audiences coming back
By Tara Mitton Catao So what would interest a collective of seven super-creative, highly-athletic dancers? Think out of the box. Search your imagination. Dancing with quadricopters? Been there, done that. Seeing how many dancers can fit into a mini-Cooper? Ah, good one, but it’s so three years ago. (The answer is 26, and by the way, Pilobolus holds the Guinness World Record for … [Read more...]