Stories By Toba Singer
Blog-Dance
Six Days in Santiago with Richard Cragun
November 26, 2024I wrote to Luz Lorca, Marcía Haydée’s assistant to ask whether Ricky happened to be in...
Dance
An Interview with San Francisco Ballet Choreographer Myles Thatcher
November 24, 2024It’s like a puzzle that needs to be cracked. It may seem to me that the...
Dance
Summertime Digital Dance Quiz
November 21, 2024Which was more important to you in Billy Elliot—the dancing or the plot?
Blog-Dance
Interview with the Late Mirta Hermida, Headmistress of the Cuban National Ballet School
November 19, 2024Understanding that dancers’ careers had a limited time span and usually ended at the age of...
Theatre
Laurie Anderson Surveys the Wreckage
November 13, 2024Appearing in a loose-fitting white shirt and tie, black slacks and white shoes, and sporting a...
Dance
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Speaks Ballet In a Dialect All Its Own
November 6, 2024Appearing at the Cullen Theater in Houston’s Wortham Center on September 29, the small but sturdy...
Dance
Mariinsky Ballet: Swan Lake
November 2, 2024Asked why there were no secondes, the general director gave the curious response that “not everyone...
Dance
Shaping Flamenco: An Afternoon with Cristina Hall
October 30, 2024“The head follows the hand.” Now smiling broadly, she demonstrates slamming the back foot onto the...
Blog-Dance
Russell Maliphant’s Afterlight Folds Time Into Space at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
October 26, 2024After a piano intro, a spot opens up a space on the dark stage and in...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Prosperous Friends by Christine Schutt
October 26, 2024A mile wide and an inch deep? Not Christine Schutt’s Prosperous Friends. Quite the opposite. It’s...