Whither The Tutu?

Sylvie Guillem says dancing in one is “like wearing a big plate.” They’re difficult and expensive to make. They can give partners a rash. And they positively reek of wispy 19th-century clichés; abstract modern ballet tends to avoid them. Are tutus over? Maybe not…

Mervon Mehta Moves On From Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center

“Yesterday the Kimmel announced that Mehta’s eighth season of importing symphony orchestras, dance companies, jazz bands and world music groups, plus staging the center’s signature all-night Summer Solstice festivities, will be his last… [he] will be replaced by Tom Warner, who was among the Kimmel’s earliest hires, starting there in 1999, two years before the center opened.”