Fitzgerald plays Kate; her partner, Hank, is played by Anthony Burrell. "I never saw the show when it was in New York," Fitzgerald said. "I was touring at the time. And when I was called in for an audition, I really didn't think anything of it, because...

The sincerest form of flattery: “It’s fine to look at somebody to see what they’re doing” and try to imitate, Jordan said. Put your whole self in: “It’s the same for us doing choreography: You find your own way to do the steps,” Jordan said. “You do it...

Ol’ Blue Eyes is back, and this time he’s bringing toe-tapping friends. Legendary choreographer Twyla Tharp will pay homage to the voice and legacy of singer Frank Sinatra in her latest musical, “Come Fly Away,” which pulls into Hershey Theatre today...

Robert Greskovic Atlanta The bottom of the cast list in the house program for Atlanta Ballet's world-premiere run of "Twyla Tharp's 'The Princess and the Goblin'" identified "Eleven Stolen Children." By the time the curtain rang down on this...

It’s a work of transcendent magic that will take you out of this world. A few days ago Gia Kourlas, in an article for The New York Times, asked “Whatever happened to the great narrative ballet? The centuries-old tradition of ballets that tell stories…”...

“As a dancer you can do the same. The movements [that] come out are slightly different. Maybe the accent is on something different.” Dibble is one of the stars of “Come Fly Away” a theatrical production celebrating Sinatra’s legacy and featuring...

Says artistic director Ashley Wheater, "The Joffrey has a phenomenal history, and in my time" - he danced with the company in the 1980s - "there was an incredibly eclectic repertoire. We did Ashton and Fokine but also Mark Morris, Twyla Tharp, William...

Kenney/Courtesy of Atlanta Ballet Alessa Rogers, above center, as Princess Irene in “Twyla Tharp's The Princess and the Goblin,” a retelling of a 19th-century fable. ATLANTA — “The Princess and the Goblin,” a fantastical story that George MacDonald...

Robert Joffrey,” said Mr. Wheater, Scottish born, Royal Ballet trained, who danced with the company when he first moved to the United States in 1985. “The Joffrey has a phenomenal history, and in my time there was an incredibly eclectic repertoire. We...

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Alfredo Miller as Sammy Davis Jr. ; and Tony Basile as Dean Martin. The show is part of the college’s Spotlight Series. Tickets are $35. Call (870) 633-4480, Extension 352 or visit eacc.edu. Sinatra takes flight The touring Broadway musical Come Fly...

Many, or I would offer even most, sections of this ballet could stand on their own as fully developed pieces of choreography. A general hunger for new ballets that are not necessarily abstract has recently emerged. One example is choreographer Twyla...

The show opens Friday at the Cobb Energy Centre. Produced by Atlanta Ballet, “The Princess and the Goblin” is a world premiere by the iconic Tharp (watch preview video below). It’s based on a 19th-century story by George MacDonald about young Princess...

The film features rare excerpts from many seminal Joffrey works including "Astarte," "Trinity" and "Billboards," as well as breakthrough collaborations with choreographers such as Twyla Tharp, Leonid Massine, Laura Dean and Kurt Jooss. Founders Joffrey...

And it can be (like in Oklahoma!, which is old-fashioned), but there are modern and contemporary ways to do it—like the French novel, or even Burroughs, nonlinear narrative. But audiences have to be trained." Or, as Twyla Tharp put it in an interview...

Presenting The Princess and the Goblin in mid-February, a world premier ballet choreographed by Twyla Tharp, it is the story of a courageous girl coming of age. The Atlanta Ballet will also present Snow White for three performances in February. This...

There exist a few photographs, mostly from the '70s and '80s, in which this superficial vision could be said to match some version of reality. But in person, she acts about as pixieish as a Rottweiler. As one of the world's most celebrated...

"I think that needing to translate into words to tell the story of a ballet is a problem. The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language. That the emotions can be felt, I think,...