Superb dance history exhibition, “Stravinsky and L.A. Dance” to close Sunday

16 February 2013

Superb dance history exhibition, “Stravinsky and L.A. Dance” to close Sunday

Category: Dance, Music | Tags: adolf bolm, igor stravinsky, la's rite, lorin johnson, mark konecny, nana gollner, stravinsky and l.a. dance, thor steingraber

As a wonderful dance-history exhibition closes, we learn more about the Los Angeles-trained ballerina Nana Gollner. [...]

9 October 2011

Balanchine’s “Symphony in Three Movements,” from 1972, to Stravinsky

Category: Dance, Music | Tags: alastair macaulay, balanchine, edward villella, igor stravinsky, symphony in three movements

video snippets of miami city ballet’s staging of a masterful work made by balanchine for nycb’s stravinsky festival of 1972, which we wish we could see right now! [...]

14 July 2010

Love among the geniuses

Category: Film, Music | Tags: alma mahler, coco chanel, igor stravinsky, mahler on the couch

The great artists have torrid love affairs in recent films. Coco Chanel, Igor Stravinsky, Gustav and Alma Mahler all drove each other to distraction in love. But isn’t some of the films’ casting kind of stretching believability? [...]