Dancing with internal mirrors
“Dance is its own reward”, Luc Jacobs tells me, the Senior Rehearsal Director of Batsheva Dance Company. His warm voice, which sometimes cracks through…
Dance
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui: Dialogue is, for me, the essence of human nature
He is half Belgian, half Moroccan. A dancer and choreographer, he works with the most famous ballet companies in the world and he illustrates original …
About Ballet, Mental Strength, and Japanese Education, with Ayaka, Principal Ballerina of the Sibiu Ballet Theatre
Do you remember the lithe ballerinas in music boxes which we used to look at in fascination as children? Petite and light as a feather, Ayaka looks lik…
Peter Sellars: Music Brings a Beautiful Transfiguration
The American director Peter Sellars will this year be awarded a star on the Walk of Fame and the Sibiu International Theatre Festival will host his per…
Mikhail Baryshnikov’s Tireless Dance With Life
On a time-faded recording I watch the silhouette of a young man spinning in a perfectly dizzying fashion. His cabrioles seem unaffected by gravity. He …