Tag: 06..18.00

Nina Ananiashvili is taking the US by storm on the Bolshoi’s current tour. After years of fighting for her artistic freedom, she’s now trying to juggle her “insane” perfectionism with a busy international career. – Los Angeles Times

Just what do arts competitions really prove anyway? This week the New York International Ballet Competition begins. “All dance competitions have a paradox at their core: on one hand, the dancers struggle to ‘do it right,’ to understand what is expected of them, and on the other, the judges hope to find dancers who will deliver the unexpected within a formally controlled context.” – New York Times