Thursday, March 19

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Playbill collects links to all the videos in its From Ballet to Broadway interviews, including talks with Tiler Peck and  Christopher Wheeldon.

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Episode 1 - Craig Salstein. The former American Ballet Theatre dancer made his Broadway debut in the 2018 revival of Carousel and talks about working in both dance worlds.

 

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John Tooley has died at age 95.

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He picked up the pieces of Rudolf Nureyev’s dramatic defection from the Soviet Union to the West in 1961; engineered the appointment of Georg Solti as musical director; and made the case for better public funding of the arts to an increasingly intransigent Margaret Thatcher and her ministers.

 

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An interview with Greta Hodgkinson.

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That “next chapter” inevitably means continued dancing, because, as Hodgkinson says, “I have to dance. It’s who I am. Dance isn’t just something I do; it’s in me.”

While she has been praised for her “technical virtuosity,” her criterion for a benchmark performance is about the art.

“You’re creating a role, you’re living as a different person,” she says. “It’s more of a spiritual performance.”