All posts tagged "septime webre"
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Editor’s Pick: The Washington Ballet’s ‘The Nutcracker’
The Washington Ballet has been performing Tchaikovsky's iconic holiday ballet in different variations since 1961.
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Punk Latitudes brings local punk musicians to Dock 5
Sasha Lord is helping to celebrate D.C.'s connection to punk with a showcase in this year's By The People festival
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On Pointe: Washington Ballet celebrates 40 years
Julie Kent will toast The Washington Ballet's legacy and future this Friday at the Kennedy Center
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ABT’s Julie Kent to replace Septime Webre at Washington Ballet
Julie Kent began dancing professionally by training locally in Bethesda at the Academy of the Maryland Youth Ballet. Little did she know she would later...
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Septime Webre to exit the Washington Ballet
Artistic Director has helmed the ballet for 17 years
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Bizet in Havana
The Washington Ballet stages a Cuban-based, cross-genre collaboration with The InSeries
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Getting Headless: Sleepy Hollow
Sleepy Hollow is part of the Washington Ballet's 10-year American Experience project
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Anglophilic
''All three of these choreographers are at the top of their game,'' Septime Webre says, referring to Trey McIntyre, Christopher Bruce and Christopher Wheeldon. As...
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French Toast
On the surface you might not expect a collaboration between the InSeries's Carla Hubner -- originally from Chile -- and the Washington Ballet's Septime Webre...
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Beefed-Up Ballet
{Giselle (Photo by Steve Vaccariello)} ''Men in tights.'' Septime Webre laughs after he says that, the first thing that springs to mind when asked what's...
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Night at the Ballet
Did you hear the one about NPR correspondent Ari Shapiro performing with The Washington Ballet? ''I'm not a dancer, and I do not dance,'' Shapiro...
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2012 Metro Weekly Next Generation Awards Selection Panel
The Next Generation Awards are chosen from a pool of community nominations by a panel of Washington-area LGBT leaders from the worlds of arts, activism,...
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Dancing through Wonderland
''It's a big one,'' says Septime Webre, ''a really loud, wild dream.'' The artistic director of the Washington Ballet isn't joking about the brand-new production...
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The Great Septime
Septime Webre was drawn to dance early. ''I'm half-Cuban,'' he says, ''and there's an old Cuban saying that Cubans dance before they can walk.'' {Septime...
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Modern Love
Did you know William Shakespeare's Mercutio might be gay? ''Perhaps Mercutio is bisexual, who knows? He's a sexual provocateur, let's put it that way,'' says...
