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Byline: Cynthia Bond Perry PERFORMING ARTS DANCE Instinct rather than intention guided Robert Battle, artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, when he choreographed the image of dancer [...]

Byline: Cynthia Bond Perry When choreographer Lauri Stallings convinced the High Museum of Art to cut a hole through a permanent gallery wall for her live art installation 'Supple Means [...]

Byline: Cynthia Bond Perry The High Museum of Art is knocking a hole in a wall -- literally -- for Lauri Stallings and her dance company Glo's upcoming live art [...]

Byline: Cynthia Bond Perry The Atlanta Ballet closes out its 89th season with the driving momentum of 'Catch,' a world premiere by English choreographer Liam Scarlett, a rising star on [...]

Byline: Cynthia Bond Perry Alongside the usual fall debuts, some major dance figures return to their Atlanta roots, showing the art form's cyclical nature as young artists become leaders, and [...]

Byline: Cynthia Bond Perry Alone in darkness, save a vertical sliver of light, a dark-suited man moves fitfully, hunched forward, his arms held close.He whips them around and whirls to [...]

Byline: Cynthia Bond Perry Two years ago, when Atlanta Ballet appointed Gennadi Nedvigin as its fourth artistic director, he voiced a vision to increase the company's size, add a main [...]

Byline: Cynthia Bond Perry Kristine Necessary Loveless remembers the moment she fell in love with ballet. Securing last-minute tickets, she and her family sat in one of the top rows [...]

Byline: Cynthia Bond Perry Destination Dance, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's initiative to produce year-round programming in Atlanta, will wrap up its pilot season this weekend with performances that [...]

Byline: Cynthia Bond Perry Those who sometimes feel creatively stuck may take comfort knowing that inside a mural-splashed Westside building, an angelic figure is leading someone out of a state [...]

Byline: Cynthia Bond Perry Fourteen new recruits--nearly half of Atlanta Ballet's company of 25 full members and six apprentices--will debut this season during Atlanta Ballet's final run of John McFall's [...]

Byline: Cynthia Bond Perry This fall, many Atlanta dance artists are examining the world's political shifts, trying to make sense of some of the weightier issues at hand. As for [...]

Byline: Cynthia Bond Perry The spirit of Atlanta Ballet's Wabi Sabi troupe -- the former off-season company known for outdoor performances -- has found a home in Atlanta Ballet 2, [...]

Byline: Cynthia Bond Perry Tara Lee, a leading dancer with Atlanta Ballet, is at peace as she prepares her final performance as a company member in Helen Pickett's ballet based [...]

Byline: Cynthia Bond Perry In a spartan but spacious dance studio, silver-clad dancers lunge and spin to music that sounds like impulses firing through neurons in the brain. Performers climb [...]

Byline: Cynthia Bond Perry After 21 years, the Atlanta Ballet's traditional holiday production of 'Nutcracker,' as choreographed by former artistic director John McFall, will have its final run this year. [...]

Byline: Cynthia Bond Perry Hope Boykin, long-time member of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, returned to the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in January, wondering if she'd [...]

Byline: Cynthia Bond Perry Clad in a little black dress, Fortuna appears center stage, blindfolded, in stiletto heels. A full chorus and orchestra charges the atmosphere with insistent rhythms and [...]

Byline: Cynthia Bond Perry The Sugar Plum Fairy is often a person's first glimpse of a live ballerina. A harbinger of holidays, she ushers new audiences into the ballet's realm [...]

Byline: Cynthia Bond Perry The difficulties of life in Israel are perhaps what give its contemporary dance artists an urgency, fearlessness and riveting stage presence. In the past 25 years, [...]

Byline: Cynthia Bond Perry Change is afoot at Atlanta Ballet under artistic director Gennadi Nedvigin, with a new ballet master and company members, plus a major upswing in one dancer's [...]

Byline: Cynthia Bond Perry 'Her shoulders open to the possibility there might yet emerge wings.' So sounds the voice of Marc Bamuthi Joseph as Atlanta Ballet dancers rehearse to an [...]

Byline: Cynthia Bond Perry Gennadi Nedvigin, principal dancer with San Francisco Ballet, traveled halfway around the world and spent half a lifetime preparing for his next major debut --- in [...]

Byline: Cynthia Bond Perry, Jill Vejnoska ARTS Atlanta Ballet taps new director Gennadi Nedvigin, principal dancer with San Francisco Ballet, has been named artistic director of the Atlanta Ballet. The [...]

Byline: Cynthia Bond Perry Near the end of Jorden Morris' 'Moulin Rouge --- The Ballet,' the ingenue Nathalie leaves her young lover Matthew for her boss, Zidler, owner of the [...]

Byline: Cynthia Bond Perry Looking in on a rehearsal for 'Moulin Rouge --- The Ballet' is like stepping into the past --- Paris, circa 1890. Atlanta Ballet dancers practice whip [...]

Byline: Cynthia Bond Perry Edgy works and powerful performances in 2015 showed that Atlanta remains a busy dance hub --- with new voices emerging, established ones maturing and an influx [...]

Byline: Cynthia Bond Perry Complexions Contemporary Ballet will soon slide onto Duluth's Infinite Energy Theater stage, making its first Atlanta-area appearance in more than a decade. The Dec. 30 performance [...]

Byline: Cynthia Bond Perry In his final months as artistic director of Atlanta Ballet, John McFall is not interested in a nostalgic trip down memory lane, at least not right [...]

Byline: Cynthia Bond Perry It's 'Nutcracker' season, time to deck the stage with toys that spring to life, a Christmas tree that triples its height, bushels of snow and giant [...]

Byline: Cynthia Bond Perry There is a simplicity in Mark Morris' speaking, and in his choreography, that belies the deep knowledge of music, mastery of form, and breadth of human [...]

Byline: Cynthia Bond Perry 'If you really want to live, you have to mount a machine and learn its tricks.' This quote, based on the Wright Brothers' advice, launches the [...]

Byline: Cynthia Bond Perry Dance sets the city in motion this fall, as New York-based Complexions Contemporary Ballet brings its brand of explosive athleticism and technical wizardry to Atlanta, with [...]

Byline: Cynthia Bond Perry Superlatives fly as readily as Savion Glover's intricate tap phrases shower the stage floor, though few critics have been as eloquent. The New Yorker called Glover [...]

Byline: Cynthia Bond Perry Inside the vacant Rhodes Theatre, a lithe aerialist is learning dance steps while an agile ballet dancer is practicing a trapeze routine. Unfazed by the lack [...]

Byline: Cynthia Bond Perry Look backstage during an Atlanta Ballet performance this weekend, and you might see some unusual moves happening in the wings. Dancers may start standing upright, stepping [...]

Byline: Cynthia Bond Perry Tennessee Williams is known for creating empathetic characters --- Laura Wingfield in 'The Glass Menagerie,' Blanche DuBois in 'A Streetcar Named Desire.' In the playwright's 'Camino [...]

Byline: HOWARD POUSNER, CYNTHIA BOND PERRY MUSIC Skylark revives music of WWII, Civil War The Skylark Vocal Ensemble, a 16-member Atlanta a cappella ensemble of vocalists from across the U.S., [...]

Byline: Cynthia Bond Perry It's said that Odetta, American folk singer-songwriter and activist, was so meticulous when researching traditional black prison songs that she once tried to break rocks with [...]

Byline: Cynthia Bond Perry Jean-Christophe Maillot's 'Romeo et Juliette' offers more than what first meets the eye. Partway through the third act, Juliette is in crisis. She has secretly married [...]

Byline: Cynthia Bond Perry There's a sweep to Jean-Christophe Maillot's 'Romeo et Juliette,' an off-kilter force that sends the ballet ensemble pouring from the wings, streaming across the stage to [...]

Byline: Cynthia Bond Perry Atlanta Ballet continued to reshape its profile this year, stretching dancers and audiences in contemporary directions. The Goat Farm Arts Center's second annual Tanz Farm series [...]