AZ Lifestyle Magazine: “Ballet Arizona Raises the Bar with Director’s Choice”
“Ballet Arizona’s Ib Andersen receives praise as one of the globe’s best living choreographers by AZ-Lifestyle Magazine. The three pieces in Director’s Choice are described as fractal, funny, and faux-epic. Read […]
Downtown Phoenix Journal: “Diversions, Creatures, and a World Premiere”
Prepare to see more than a menagerie onstage when Ballet Arizona performs Director’s Choice at the Orpheum Theatre this weekend. “It’s a challenging, very diverse program,” says Ib Andersen, the troupe’s artistic director, who chose […]
Reviews: Director’s Choice – “You Dance Funny. So Does Me.”
“Blogger Steve Ha critiques Le Carnaval des Animaux, Second to Last, and Diversions in his blog giving praise to Alejandro Cerrudo and Ib Andersen. Read the full blog post.”
AZ-Lifestyle Magazine: “Ib Andersen’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Romances the Audience”
“Ib Andersen romances the audience with his technically strong, theatrically rich, and conceptually deep choreography in ‘Romeo & Juliet.’ Swordplay, musicality, and intense emotion move the bar up higher in […]
AZCentral.com: “Ballet Arizona Opens Season with ‘Giselle’ in Phoenix”
“Forget the Black Swan. The true killer role for a dance diva, says Ballet Arizona artistic director Ib Andersen, is the title character of “Giselle,” a naive peasant girl who […]
AZCentral.com: “Ballet Under the Stars at West Valley Parks”
“Ballet Arizona’s annual series of free concerts brings one of the nation’s best dance companies to city parks in every corner of the Valley, including three stops in the West […]
AZCentral.com: “Arizona Opera, Ballet Arizona’s take on ‘Romeo and Juliet'”
“There are a million ways to tell a good story. And hence the perennial popularity of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare’s tale of young lovers doomed to a tragic end by their […]
The Arizona Republic: “Ballet Arizona Free Concert Series to Bring Ballet to Phoenix-Area Parks”
“A motto for Ballet Under the Stars might be, ‘If you build it, they will come’ — times seven. Ballet Arizona’s annual series of free concerts brings one of the nation’s […]
The Arizona Republic: “‘Balanchine’ Inspires Dancers to Emotion in Phoenix”
“Comedian Martin Mull is credited with the oft-quoted aphorism, ‘Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.’ The problem with this seeming truism, however, is that dancing about architecture might […]
