Benjamin Millepied is the guy who knocked up Natalie Portman. He's also one of the most celebrated ballet dancers and choreographers on the planet, and the fact that his new found celebrity obscures his talent merits a nice long profile in The New York Times called, appropriately, "Leaping Into the Spotlight."
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Regardless of whether or not she wins the Oscar for her tour-de-force performance in Black Swan, it looks like Natalie Portman will be taking home a statuette man. People reports today that Natalie Portman will be marrying boyfriend Benjamin Millepied, the ballet expert who trained her for the grueling ballet sequences and acted as Read More
Because City Center was supposed to be undergoing major revamping (it didn’t happen), ABT switched its fall season to an unlikely venue: Avery Fisher Hall. It has no front curtain, no wings, no rake and no way to hang scenery, and the balcony is a zillion miles from the stage.
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Days before President Obama arrived on Martha’s Vineyard this August, Benjamin Millepied was in a house not far from where the president would stay. “What’s that smell?” Mr. Millepied pricked his nose in the air, muttering to himself. “Shit. They were smoking in here, weren’t they?” He was sitting upstairs in a stately white home, Read More
There’s been dance everywhere these past weeks, and not only at the City Center, where Paul Taylor was shutting down, and at B.A.M., where Mark Morris was moving in. Susan Marshall presented a 20th-anniversary season at the Dance Theater Workshop that confirmed her reputation as an inventive and persuasive dance maker. Her new extended piece, Read More
