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At American Ballet Theater, a New Swan Takes Flight
New York Times· 10 hours agoThe rise of the soloist Chloe Misseldine is part of the artistic director Susan Jaffe’s master plan: Start them young and give them time to grow. “I grew...
Rudi von Massow survived a war-torn adolescence to build a new life in Canada
The Globe and Mail· 15 hours agoRudi was born on his parents’ farm in Eastern Germany, the thirdof four children. As the war was...
June Leaf, Artist Who Explored the Female Form, Dies at 94
New York Times· 16 hours agoJune Leaf, a painter and sculptor whose exploration of the female form, by turns whimsical, graceful...
25 years after 13-year-old dancer's death, her legacy lives on at L.A. charter schools
Los Angeles Times· 1 day agoSixth grader Annabelle Soriano...González’s play “Two Donuts” — of a Guatemalan American girl who...
There’s Trouble Right Here in Tap City
New York Times· 1 day agoLouis and Rio de Janeiro all have annual festivals celebrating tap dancing, shouldn’t New York City? For almost 25 years, Tap City has been an important...
Cancelled TV Shows: What Would’ve Happened Next on So Help Me Todd, Castle, Magnum P.I. and 65...
TVLine.com via Yahoo Canada News· 2 days agoBut… what would have happened next?! That is the inevitable, sorrowful refrain from the fans of any...
On This Day, June 30: Supreme Court allows religious exemption to contraception mandate
United Press International via Yahoo Canada News· 3 days agoOn June 30, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that family-owned corporations can't be required to...
Opinion: Fifty years after his defection, we’re still living in the age of Mikhail Baryshnikov
The Globe and Mail· 3 days agoAfter he finished a series of performances at Toronto’s O’Keefe Centre (now Meridian Hall) with a...
Mikhail Baryshnikov on Leaving Everything Behind
New York Times· 4 days agoBaryshnikov, then 26 and already one of ballet’s brightest stars, had made the momentous decision to defect from the Soviet Union and build a career in...
‘Like a film noir’: Mikhail Baryshnikov recalls the rainy Toronto night of his dramatic defection...
Toronto Star· 4 days agoMikhail Baryshnikov, 26 and already hailed as one of the greatest ballet dancers of his generation, made his dash to freedom and defected ...