“We Got Very Creative”: Alicia Graf Mack on Leading Juilliard’s Dancers Into a New Era

On a drizzly February afternoon in Manhattan, the labyrinthine halls inside the Juilliard School are quietly humming. Students pass by carrying instruments in sturdy cases; behind studio doors, muffled piano music accompanies the swish of footfalls. Alicia Graf Mack, director of the dance division, is waiting at the far end of the corridor, backed by windows overlooking the Broadway traffic and Lincoln Center next door. Adjacency to the city’s performing-arts hub is a plain-sight reminder of where hard work might lead. Even in her late-winter uniform—black pants, gray sweater, boots with a sensible heel—Graf Mack radiates a familiar poise. Willowy… Read Full Article