- 3/5/13 /
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Bolshoi Ballet Dancer Detained for Acid Attack
Along with possible accomplices.
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- 1/29/13 /
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Starz Is Developing a Ballet Drama
A dark and gritty one.
- 9/21/12 /
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Watch a Video for a Sufjan Stevens Ballet
Set to the song, "Palm Sunday Tornado Hits Crystal Lake," which is a very Sufjan song name.
- 12/7/11 /
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Win a Pair of Tickets to See Paul McCartney’s Ballet, Ocean’s Kingdom
It's haiku time.
- 11/10/11 /
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See Footage From an Elton John–Inspired Ballet
Billy Elliot it's not.
- 8/24/11 /
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Decca Records Finally Accepts Paul McCartney
The label will make up for nearly five decades of lost time with the release of a ballet recording.
- 3/2/11 /
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Watch a Small, Adorable Ballerina Try to Master First Position
Attack it!
- 5/24/10 /
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Watch Nude Ballerinas Perform Disabled Dance
(NSFW, naturally.)
- 4/2/10 /
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Hammy Tiger Dancer Goes Rogue, Steals Show at Russian Ballet
Watch through to the end — he saves the best for last.
- 3/29/10 /
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Which Ballerina Has the Coarsest Twitter?
"When did MAC start making the shade 'Blow-Job Red'?"
- 11/30/09 /
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New Nutcracker!
American Ballet Theatre has just announced an all-new, Alexei Ratmansky–choreographed production at BAM.
- 10/13/09 /
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Adam Duritz Does Not Discriminate Against the Inflexible
Well, sometimes he does.
- 4/20/09 /
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The Met Scores Obama
Curiously, Renée Zellweger is another one of the Honorary Chairmen for this season of the ABT.
- 1/21/09 /
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America's Studliest Ballet Dancer Returns
Edward Villella, who danced for Balanchine, debuts his Miami City Ballet in New York tonight.
- 9/11/08 /
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In Your Face, New York City Ballet: Alexei Ratmansky Goes to American Ballet Theatre
Ratmansky, Bolshoi Ballet's artistic director will not, as most expected, be stepping into Christopher Wheeldon's hallowed shoes as New York City Ballet's choreographer.
- 9/10/08 /
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Radiohead Ballet Alert
The Scottish Ballet is dancing to Radiohead.
- 6/18/08 /
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Ballet’s Damian Woetzel on Harvard, His Final Performance, and Retirement
Woetzel talks to Vulture on the day of his last-ever performance with the New York City Ballet.
- 5/8/08 /
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Ballet-Dancing Robot: Highbrow, Despicable — and a Harbinger of the Apocalypse!
The robots' takeover of high culture is now near complete.
- 5/2/08 /
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Ballet’s Desmond Richardson on Life As a Muse
Richardson speaks to Vulture about the persistently pasty face of contemporary ballet.
- 4/30/08 /
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At City Ballet, Jerome Robbins Remembered As a Guy You Wouldn't Mind Seeing Fall Off the Stage
Ethan Hawke, Jonathan Marc Sherman, Lauren Bacall, and Lesley Stahl remember the mercurial choreographer.
- 4/8/08 /
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Dancer Jock Soto Looks Back on a Life in Tights (and Fishnets)
"I’d been dancing in a strip mall outside Phoenix. I didn't know what I was getting myself into."
- 3/20/08 /
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Big Boi to Perform in Ballet, Probably in Tights
André 3000's better half collaborates with the Atlanta Ballet, T.I. goes to Easter Mass, and the A-Team movie is actually being released! In movie theaters!
- 3/17/08 /
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Mikhail Baryshnikov and Merce Cunningham Talk Dance Photography
Baryshnikov talks to Vulture about his new exhibit, then Cunningham critiques it.
- 3/3/08 /
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Behind the Scenes at Twyla Tharp's New Ballet
Does Tharp plus a Danny Elfman score equal a return to the glory days?
- 2/5/08 /
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Why We're Excited About Alexei Ratmansky Replacing Christopher Wheeldon at City Ballet
There's a bit of a Ratmansky-gasm going on in the city right now.