Natalie Bostick contributed articles to The Weekly Standard in 2008 and 2009. Her pieces covered cultural topics including dance and entertainment.
You will never meet a complacent modern dance choreographer. Descended from the art's socially conscious founders, theirs is a righteous movement. Its cost is, oftentimes, obscurity. One choreographer I know was asked by her mentor if she was prepared to make work for "eight people in a Soho loft."…
Once upon a time there was a man named Richard Simmons. Richard was a sweet man with a big heart, and if you were fat, Richard would be your friend. Thanks to television you could aerobicize with Richard or deal your meals through Richard, and you lost a little weight.
A collection of photographs of Jerome Robbins hung in the lobby of the David H. Koch Theater for New York City Ballet's Spring Season. Family, rehearsal, and performance shots, they plotted the extraordinary life story of Robbins, from his religious ancestors in Poland to his adopted family in the…
Every 20 years or so dance appears on television in a big way. In the 1980s we had Solid Gold, Dance Fever, and Soul Train. In the 1960s there were Shindig and Hullabaloo. When I was a kid my mother let me watch some of these shows after she brought me home from ballet. The Solid Gold dancers in…