Two things stood out this past week on the dance front:

Last week, BAILA Society started teaching at Alvin Ailey as part of the Extension.  To be part of the faculty of such an iconic dance company and to be teaching there is an enormous honor for all of us at BAILA Society and another testament to the unifying nature of dance.

Alvin Ailey Faculty - DSE

For the last couple of years we had the great pleasure of working with Igal Perry and Peridance/Capezio as a strategic partner – we teach open and company classes at Peridance and it is a wonderful home and inspiring environment to be part of.

Igal Perry has been a pioneer of bringing all dances together under one roof and I am truly blessed to be on the board of his Peridance Contemporary Dance Company. A few years ago we did a series of interviews highlighting Igal’s philosophy, dance life and overall vision.

Peridance Contemporary Dance Company

Today I had the luck to get tickets for the last NY City Center show of Boris Eifman’s new choreography, Rodin.  These Russian dancers are insanely good and Eifman is a choreography genius.  Rarely has dance moved me this much.  In his foreword to the piece, Eifman wrote: “The life and love of Rodin and Claudel is an amazing story of two artists in an incredibly dramatic alliance in which everything interlaced – passion, hatred, artistic jealousy.”  His whole company was outstanding, but Lyubov Andreyeva and Oleg Gabyshev were sublime as Camille and Rodin.

Boris Eifman, "Rodin"