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Off the EDGE, a new series of community-based arts initiatives, has chosen several new and locally created works for its free performance series called Edge/PUBLIC, to take place in January. The selected Atlanta-based dance, movement and performance artists will premiere their work on two nights, January 28 and 29, in downtown Atlanta’s Woodruff Park in [...]

The Sugar Plum Fairy, the epitome of ethereal grace and confidence, has inspired countless ballerinas over the years. Her solo variation in “The Nutcracker” is a quiet, enchanting moment: as a celesta chimes Tchaikovsky’s delicate, precise melody, the charmed hostess’s impossibly light hops en pointe and her generous open arms cast a benevolent spell over [...]

The Lucky Penny, Atlanta’s new presenting organization, will offer “11.11.11 Spectacular! Spectacular!” this Friday and Saturday at the Arts Exchange. With its thrust on experimental and interdisciplinary art, the organization will tap some of the city’s brash young innovators, respected performance art collaborators and two guest artists from out of town. It’s likely that New [...]

Tommy Panto, a 6-foot-4-inch dancer with Atlanta Ballet, stood in a jail cell. As he arched his back and clung to the metal window grate for support, his feet shied away from dust bunnies and grime (below). A camera clicked. Panto wasn’t in jail, but on a movie set at Special Projects, a scenic components [...]

The Georgia Ballet‘s “Rhythm and Rhapsody,” presented at the Jennie T. Anderson Theatre on October 22, was an evening of flirtation, jubilee and romance. Exhibiting exceptional extensions, fast pointe work and syncopated rhythms, the Marietta-based troupe performed Janusz Mazon’s “Prelude Pictures,” a world premiere, and George Balanchine’s “Who Cares?,” both set to George Gershwin’s music. [...]

Catherine Fox has been appointed executive director of ArtsCriticATL, Inc., the non-profit organization that publishes this website. Fox, co-founder and chief visual arts critic of the online journal, will replace Pierre Ruhe, who has accepted a position as director of artistic administration of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra in Birmingham. “As co-founder of ArtsCriticATL and an [...]