Posts Tagged "Alastair Macaulay"

BONUS: Alastair Macaulay from the Vail Dance Festival

Posted by on 08.04.2018

https://media.blubrry.com/conversationsondancepod/tendusunderapalmtree.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/AlastairVail.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSSWe sit down in Vail to catch up with The New York Times Chief Dance Critic Alastair Macaulay and discuss the Vail Dance Festival.  We discuss what makes the festival so special, how it has evolved, dancers who he has watched flourish in Vail, and what makes him keep coming back for more.  (Note: This episode was recorded on August 3, 2018.) Photo: Erin Baiano

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(77) Ashton and Balanchine: Parallel Lives with Alastair Macaulay

Posted by on 01.29.2018

http://media.blubrry.com/conversationsondancepod/tendusunderapalmtree.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/AMBalanchineAshton.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSSToday we have a wonderful bunhead episode in store, with one of our favorite guests, The Chief Dance Critic of the New York Times, Alastair Macaulay. Alastair and Michael are together in Michael’s New York City apartment, while I call in to join the conversation. Today we are focusing on two of the most important choreographers of the 20th century: George Balanchine and Frederick Ashton. If you listen to the pod, you have heard us speak of Balanchine, and are likely a...

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Vail Festival Forum Bonus Content: Alastair Macaulay, Chief New York Times Dance Critic

Posted by on 08.06.2017

http://media.blubrry.com/conversationsondancepod/tendusunderapalmtree.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/AlastairMacaulayVail.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSSWelcome to the Conversations on Dance Festival Forum Bonus Content.  All this week we are publishing bonus mini-pods from Vail, Colorado where we are here covering the Vail Dance Festival.  We are joined today by the New York Times Chief Dance Critic, Alastair Macaulay, to discuss the festival so far.

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(30) Alastair Macaulay, NYT Chief Dance Critic on Balanchine’s ‘Serenade’

Posted by on 01.23.2017

http://media.blubrry.com/conversationsondancepod/tendusunderapalmtree.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/AlastairMacaulay.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSSToday we have the distinct pleasure of welcoming New York Times Chief Dance Critic, Alastair Macaulay. Alastair has been the Chief Dance critic with the Times since 2007.  Before that time, he worked as the Chief Theater Critic of the Financial Times in London, was the Chief Dance Critic for The Literary Supplement, the founding editor of the British Quarterly Dance Theater Journal, and a guest dance critic for The New Yorker.   For the past 30 years Alastair has been...

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