Said to be one of Japan's best known flamenco dancers, Yoko Komatsubara and her Ballet Flamenco Sol de Espana will celebrate the first anniversary of Japan Airlines New York-Saoo Paulo route with "Andalucia Lejana" and "Flamenco Sensacional II".
March 21 2013 March 23 201313 In "Being Here," the young choreographer, best known as a dancer with Urban Bush Women, tackles the ravages of mental illness and addiction, staging the kinds of traumatic scenes you might turn away from on the subway.
He was best known as a principal dancer with the Joffrey Ballet, from 1960 to 1964, and with the Harkness Ballet, where he danced from 1964 to 1970.
Although he performed classical roles, he was best known as a character dancer, winning praise as the imperious Shah in "Sch?razade," the crusty old General in "Graduation Ball" and Dr. Copp?us, the eccentric inventor, in "Copp?a".
Mr. Peck — a tall City Ballet dancer best known onstage as an admirable partner and elegant presence in the Balanchine ballets "Concerto Barocco" and "Liebeslieder Waltzer" — looked more boyish on this occasion introducing his work with a few words.
Its creative team includes Mr. Crowley, who is directing and designing, and Meryl Tankard, an Australian choreographer perhaps best known as the lead dancer for the experimental German choreographer Pina Bausch.
Based on a scenario by its producer, Neve Campbell, a former ballet dancer best known as a scream-queen in horror flicks, The Company hovers between under-plotted drama and indifferently observed documentary.
At the front of the studio sat Ethan Stiefel, a recently retired principal dancer best known in non-dance circles for his starring turn in the movie "Center Stage," where he played the motorcycle-riding Cooper Nielson, a hotshot dancer with a somewhat exaggerated self-image.
It's launching a "Kindness" camera effect in partnership with Maddie Ziegler, best known as the child dancer version of Sia from her music video "Chandelier".
But she was best known as the exquisitely beautiful dancer who was the first black artist to perform at the Metropolitan, four years before Marian Anderson sang there.
Whether or not Rainer — who is best known as a choreographer and dancer — studied Ford's dramas and comedies, she develops their premises of history put to the touchstone of personal experience, and personal experience viewed in the light of history.
