It’s been over three years since the first High Strung was released, and fans of the dancetastic movie have been itching for more ever since. Thankfully, the film’s sequel, High Strung: Free Dance, is set to premiere tomorrow, October 11. The new story follows Barlow, a young ballet dancer longing to break into the Broadway […]
It’s been a major week for dance movie sequels. First we got wind of the upcoming YouTube series inspired by Step Up—and now comes the news that there’s going to be a second High Strung movie, with a cast just as stellar as the original film’s. High Strung: Free Dance will follow a talented contemporary […]
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: dance and film are made for each other. In the past couple of years, ballet companies have used the medium to promote new work, creating “trailers” that give beautiful peeks at upcoming premieres. These short films reach many people who are unable to see the ballets […]
We love how creative ballet companies have been getting with their promotional videos recently . The latest company to eschew the traditional (and kind of stale) beautiful-shots-of-beautiful-dancers-dancing route? San Francisco Ballet. Not that its new short film—a teaser for SFB dancer and choreographer Myles Thatcher‘s upcoming premiere, Ghost in the Machine—doesn’t include tons of gorgeous […]
Myles Thatcher, a choreographer and corps member at San Francisco Ballet, just keeps on winning. Not only has he made work for the SFB School and the main company, not only was he named one our 13 Hot Young Choreographers and not only did he just finish a year as renowned choreographer Alexei Ratmansky’s protégé […]
Each year around this time, the ballet companies of the world begin revealing the programming for their upcoming seasons. And every time a season-announcement press release lands in my inbox, I squeal like a kid on Christmas morning—because they’re all full of delicious ballet goodies. Premieres! Revivals! Old favorites! YUM, YUM AND YUM. New York […]
(From top: Erik Tomasson, courtesy San Francisco Ballet; Platoon, courtesy The Pulse; Michael Slobodian, courtesy Ballet BC; Jayme Thornton; David Kim, courtesy Emma Portner; Jayme Thornton; Travis Magee, courtesy Loni Landon; Jayme Thornton; Matthew Murphy, courtesy Emery LeCrone; Jayme Thornton; Courtesy Megan Batoon; Jayme Thornton) (Photos by Jayme Thornton) Kyle Hanagami “I feel like […]