Time is Now

Last year, in beautiful music halls and opera houses across Rome, New York City Ballet principal dancers performed canonical works of legendary choreographers George Balanchine and Peter Martins. Auditorium Parca Della Musica   |  Outdoors at the Belvedere di Villa Rufolo, Ravello Festival   |  Centro di Danza Balletto di Roma (19 Febbraio, 2013) in collaboration with Daniele Cipriani Entertainment   | When in Rome, visit the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma and the Teatro Constazi , where the resident ballet company performs Swan Lake until 16 January  |  NYCB Principals recently visited ballet students in Rome to hold master classes for the young dancers. Lucky students, lucky principals !

by Rossi Lamont Walter, 9 January, 2014 “Oh heyyy!” giggles Betsi, as she inches her little car through a large traffic intersection. With stop lights all broken and a car full of tired dancers, all eyes were peeled as she motored safely across the lanes. We all laughed. “That is so something you would say Betsi.” “Oh? Well, what’s a new word I can use?” That was Tuesday night, the week of the debut of Chemistry . Though quaint, this short narrative embodies rather well the entire process of making the dances for the show, which will premiere on Saturday night at Jordan Hall in Boston. In the story there is the nucleus, or the dancers and their director; the mode of transportation, in this case the legendary score from Stravinsky; fatigue and yet focused attention from all; laughter; distinct personality; new vocabulary. All of these features reflect the ambition and hard (and fast!) work for Chemistry. Some background: Chemistry is a collaboration between Urbanity Dance

HERE WE GO : **UPDATE: Chemistry currently headlines the Boston Globe's "The Week Ahead"! Sunlight and high ceilings on Wednesday morning inside the Deane Studio Boston Center for the Arts , South End, Boston 2 days until the premiere of Chemistry Dancers rehearsing 'Cayla's Dress' to accompany masterpieces by Johannes Sebastien Bach Boston Center for the Arts , South End, Boston 2 days until the premiere of Chemistry Criers Megumi Lewis and Erik Higgins trekked to Boston's South End to meet with Urbanity Dance at their studio. Working towards a collaborative concert, the Criers met the dancers and worked with choreographer Betsi Graves for the first time. 18 December, 2013 at Urbanity Dance, Boston The historic Jordan Hall, the "heart and soul of New England Conservatory". Read more about Jordan Hall and its history here: http://necmusic.edu/jordan-hall. "In April 1994, U.S. Secretary of the In