Author Archives: Quinn Wharton

The Whirlwind

This past month and a half has been a whirlwind. We’ve been focusing on two ballets in the upcoming season that are utterly intense. While both are very contemporary, they are vastly different in their ideas and their movement quality. The two ballets I’m talking about are Artifact Suite by William Forsythe, and Chroma by Wayne McGregor. Artifact was [...]
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The Charm of Tivoli

The strangest thing about the Copenhagen tour has been the environment we worked in. Tivoli Gardens is the theme park that inspired Disneyland; it was the genesis for that whole enterprise.    When I first walked into the park I was stunned; it’s sort of polar opposite to the environment that we usually perform in. Yet here I was, [...]
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Sweet Dreams from Copenhagen!

Sleep is incredibly important for what we do. On tour even more so: we don’t have our apartments to go back to or our regular schedule to settle into. Especially when flying, you’ll see us sleeping everywhere, from the comfortable to the odd. It helps that what we wear most of the day is basically tight-fitting [...]
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What I did on my Summer Vacation

We’re finally back to work after a long, fruitful summer break. One of the things I really cherish about the ballet world is the summer vacation.  Almost all of my friends who are outside of the ballet world, don’t really get a solid vacation period, just a few days here and there and maybe a full [...]
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