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Yesterday, we began an interview with Atlanta choreographer Lauri Stallings, focusing on her dance company, gloATL, and on “pour,” a site-specific work that was part of last month’s Le Flash-Atlanta and broke new ground in the urban Castleberry Hill neighborhood. Here’s the second and final part of that conversation:

CBP: How was “pour” received?

LS: I just couldn’t say enough about this city and its ability to open itself to gloATL. We’ve been extremely fortunate…

Last month, Lauri Stallings and her dance company, gloATL, broke new ground in Atlanta’s urban Castleberry Hill neighborhood with “pour.”

Since the site-specific work’s premiere at the multi-arts Le Flash-Atlanta event, “pour” has created a buzz around town. I reviewed it for ArtsCriticATL here (and don’t miss the smart discussion in the comments). Talk has spread to New York with last week’s premiere of Stallings’ “The Plum Line” at the Wave Rising Festival in Brooklyn.

Later this month, Stallings’ “First Person” will premiere in an event called “Chakra,”…

If necessity is the mother of invention and collaboration the father, Art à la Carte, a build-your-own-subscription service among four performing arts organizations, is the welcome offspring.

Two Woodruff Arts Center members — the Alliance Theatre and Atlanta Symphony Orchestra – and Atlanta Ballet and the Center for Puppetry Arts are collaborating to offer an intra-organization series of family-themed…

Opening Atlanta Ballet’s 80th season, Mark Godden’s “The Magic Flute” offered just the right challenge to the company’s bold, responsive dancers at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre. Godden’s broad-sweeping choreography evoked an adventurous, expansive quality from this accomplished group of professional dancers. The trouble was that he tried to pack too much plot into the ballet.

Conducted by Jeff Holland Cook and accompanied by live singers, the Atlanta Ballet Orchestra played music from Mozart’s 1791 evening-length opera, “Die Zauberflӧte.”

Godden, a Texas native, spent most of his performing career with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and spent four influential months dancing with Jiří…

By CYNTHIA BOND PERRY

A couple of weeks ago, choreographer David Parsons gave me an interview for a story in the AJC. The story focuses on Parsons’ passionate response to what he felt was unfair criticism, how “Remember Me” breaks new ground for Parsons, and how the evening-length work has evolved since its New York premiere last January. 

Parsons Dance and the East Village Opera Company perform the Atlanta premiere of “Remember Me” Friday (Oct. 23) at Georgia Tech's Ferst Center for the Arts. (All photos are from “Remember Me.”)

When we…

Last Friday, in Castleberry Hill, Lauri Stallings and her collaborative performance group gloATL offered a new site-specific work, “pour,” for Le Flash-Atlanta. Part of the city’s second annual one-night celebration of contemporary art, Le Flash ushered in the month-long Atlanta Celebrates Photography festival. (Read Cathy Fox’s visual art review here.) One of ACP’s goals is to help Atlanta to become a world-class cultural center — lucky for the festival that the city is home base for an emerging internationally recognized choreographer.

I’ve seen three works by Stallings over the years: “big,”…