Harper’s Bazaar: How Three Women Produced a Ballet Gala in a Pandemic
By Erica Gonzalez 17 December 2020 Ballerina Melanie Hamrick wanted to do something to help the dance community months into a pandemic that put many of them out of work. […]
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Forbes: World-Class Ballerina Misty Copeland And TIME’S UP CEO Tina Tchen Discuss Equity And Breaking Barriers
By Monica Haider 17 December 2020 Two remarkably powerful women, Tina Tchen, President and CEO of TIME’S UP Now and TIME’S UP Foundation, and Misty Copeland, Principal Dancer at American […]
Mass Review: The Offending Classic
What makes a ballet a classic? Is it earning a permanent place in the history books, or is it being worthy of the Herculean investment of hours in the studio, the tireless work of the dancers and coaches, the resources, media and marketing machine required to bring it to life, or both? Who decides, and more importantly, what goes into that calculus?
Hacks for Virtual Holiday Rituals: Nutcracker Goes Digital
For this week’s Hacks Newsletter, [Alyssa Rapp’s Hacks the Newsletter] gains ABT Executive Superstar Kara Medoff Barnett’s leadership hacks, about what’s it’s been like to lead America’s national ballet company through this pandemic – and to what she looks forward to in 2021.
Prestige: Misty Copeland on Finding a Higher Purpose in Ballet
By Charlene Co 15 December 2020 Under the unforgiving, highly competitive and elitist spotlight of classical ballet, Misty Copeland shines. Copeland, who in 2015 became the first African-American promoted to principal dancer […]
DDP’s Holiday Picks
Instead of streaming the same old Nutcrackers this year, we’d recommend exploring something outside the usual male-choreographed, big city productions…
