New York Times - Dance

With “Proof of Life,” Kiyon Ross wants to make his alma mater, the School of American Ballet, proud — and the dancers feel special. That’s what he would have wanted.“You can make a shape, but can you dance?” Kiyon Ross said he was drawn to dancers who are expansive and fill the space.

Scottish Ballet realized it needed to make its nation’s history a bit more explicit to take its “Mary, Queen of Scots” on the road. It comes to Lincoln Center this week.

Kids Dance, from the New York Public School for Dance, is debuting a work featuring alumni. That’s not the only way former students are involved with the school.Ballet Tech students, from left, Virginie Wallace, Memphis Haas, Amelia Chan, Coral Torres-Hara, Nicholas Begun. Front, Leo Patel.

A tall, commanding ballerina, she led one of the world’s top dance institutions for decades, though her rigorous methods eventually drew criticism.Claude Bessy in 1957.

Olivia Book of Ballet West is one of the first professional ballet dancers to have a limb difference.Olivia Book, who is from Grimsby, Ontario, on the shore of Lake Ontario.