In addition to “the vocabulary and nuts and bolts of technique,” dancers should learn classical works that continue to be performed all over the world, New Haven Ballet artistic director Lisa Kim Sanborn contends. Enter Don Quixote (more…)
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A Light On Her Feet
Even (or perhaps particularly) when clad in ballet shoes, Mnikesa Whitaker is not to be messed with. “I’m focused on instilling a sense of discipline and work ethic into the girls. That’s what dance is about, and that’s what I’m about.” Whitaker, known respectfully as Ms. Whitaker by the students she leads in class and […]
This Week in New Haven (May 21-27)
Music, some of which accompanies lyrical images of pratfalls, abounds this week in New Haven. You’ll find power pop, ballet scores, memorial funk, Dylan and the Dead tributes, and suspenseful zombie horror chords. Dig in. Monday, May 21 Be grateful on a May Monday for the even-tempered spiritual force of the Grateful Dead, a power which […]