Wednesday, May 6

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Misty Copeland organizes a virtual ballet for charity.

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“It really felt like an opportunity to bring the dance world together and to really bring our forces together. And I felt like we could have more impact that way,” said Misty Copeland, who is the first dancer featured in the video and came up with the initiative with her former colleague, Joseph Phillips.

 

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Houston Ballet presents a "Houston Ballet at Home" series.

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Running less than 2 minutes to nearly 5 minutes, the clips range from elaborately staged comedies to time-lapse cooking lessons and exercise demonstrations by the dancers. There are lovers and roommates among them, along with domestic goddesses and folks who live more bare-bones.

 

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A review of Alonzo King Lines Ballet by Lyndsey Winship for The Guardian.

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Three works filmed back in 2012 are currently available to stream, giving an introduction to King’s oeuvre. His choreography is firmly rooted in classical ballet, but open to exploring every other way a dancer might move. There is much display of the body beautiful – the elegant stretch of a high extension, the perfect placing of a retiré – but instead of ethereal lightness, King’s more grounded movement marks itself on the space. It pushes against the air, but not against the body’s instincts. There are none of the awkward extremes of some contemporary ballet here.

 

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  Miami City Ballet presents a ballet choreographed remotely.

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Under ordinary circumstances choreographer Durante Verzola would be dashing from one commission to another or teaching ballet.

But these aren’t ordinary times.

With the nation in the grip of the coronavirus pandemic, the 24-year-old choreographer is holed up with his parents and siblings in Kansas City and creating a work for Miami City Ballet in what might be an unprecedented manner — via the internet.

 

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 Cleveland Ballet presents its spring season online.

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Every Friday in May, Cleveland Ballet will release popular performances from the past on its YouTube Channel, making them available to stream for 72 hours.