Cameron Grant News

The Vail International Dance Festival announces its 2015 schedule to be held July 27 through August 10, marking its 27th season with world premieres, exceptional debuts, and captivating collaborations.

What determines an artistic institution's longevity? How does such an institution thrive after the social, political, and economic forces that engendered it have disappeared? Museums, orchestras, theater and dance companies face these questions as they struggle to succeed in the cultural Darwinism that determines their survival. Some succeed. Others don't. New York City Ballet is a notable success story.

As a part of its Hear the Dance program for the Winter 2015 season, the New York City Ballet presented two pieces featuring compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach. They were choreographed by the Company's most renowned choreographers, George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. With minimal set and costume designs, the evening allowed for music and dance to take flight, leaving the audience at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center in awe as they watched Bach's music come to life in a pure dance experience.

Wednesday, May 28th, New York City Ballet presented a program bookended by Balanchine. Concerto Barocco articulated propriety and decorum in delicate glances; Jerome Robbin's Other Dances promulgated gentle desire in the pas de deux; Benjamin Millipied's Neverwhere delved into power plays; and Balanchine had the last laugh with the exuberant laissez-faire Who Cares?

Dance Against Cancer raised more than $200,000 for the American Cancer Society on Monday, May 5, 2014. Proceeds from the evening will benefit research initiatives and patient and family service programs. More than 500 guests attended the fourth annual Dance Against Cancer. VIP guests enjoyed cocktails, preferred seating, and a gift bag in addition to the performance and post-event reception. The performance featured new work by Brian Reeder created for American Ballet Theatre's Isabella Boylston with New York City Ballet's Chase Finlay and Amar Ramasar, Paul Taylor Dance Company in its first appearance at the benefit, Charles 'Lil Buck' Riley performed with students from National Dance Institute, and included the NYC premiere of Justin Peck's Sea Change. Scroll down for photos from the performances!

Another exciting NYC Ballet performance with standout appearances by Ashley Bouder, Georgina Pazcoguin, Tiler Peck and Brittany Pollack.

The Phoenix Theatre of Indianapolis will produce A Very Phoenix Xmas 5: Regifted as its annual alternative holiday production from November 26 through December 19, 2010. This year's 'regifted' production, conceived and directed by Phoenix Theatre Producing Director Bryan Fonseca, is truly the result of work-shopping Phoenix Xmas shows for the past four years and coming up with a 'greatest hits' selection of music, sketches, videos and dances from past shows.

The New Orleans Ballet Association celebrates 40 years of Bringing Dance to Life in New Orleans with a superstar-studded Ruby Gala des Etoiles (40th Anniversary Gala of Stars), April 17 at 6:30pm at the Mahalia Jackson Theater of the Performing Arts. Ten internationally renowned Principal and Etoiles ballet dancers from the most prestigious ballet companies in the world will perform at this once-in-a-lifetime event!

The New Orleans Ballet Association celebrates 40 years of Bringing Dance to Life in New Orleans with a superstar-studded Ruby Gala des Etoiles (40th Anniversary Gala of Stars), April 17 at 6:30pm at the Mahalia Jackson Theater of the Performing Arts. Ten internationally renowned Principal and Etoiles ballet dancers from the most prestigious ballet companies in the world will perform at this once-in-a-lifetime event!

'Foreclosure,' a one-act play about a middle-class family caught up in the calamity of today's fierce economic downturn, has been selected from over 700 plays to be one of the 'Final 40' during the week-long Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival beginning July 14, 2009. It will be presented at 9:00PM on Thursday, July 16th at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre (416 West 42nd Street) in Manhattan.

'Foreclosure,' a one-act play about a middle-class family caught up in the calamity of today's fierce economic downturn, has been selected from over 700 plays to be one of the 'Final 40' during the week-long Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival beginning July 14, 2009. It will be presented at 9:00PM on Thursday, July 16th at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre (416 West 42nd Street) in Manhattan.

NEW YORK THEATRE EXPERIMENT PRESENTS CAPTURE THE FLAG: A FESTIVAL OF NEW AMERICAN PLAYS. Featuring World Premiere Work by Robert Attenweiler, Juan Castro, Nathan Dame, George Cameron Grant, Terence Patrick Hughes, Daniel Kelley, Victor Lesniewski, Vincent Madero, Dan Monaco, and Rebecca Ortese.