http://www.artsjournal.com/dance.shtml Copyright 2008 Fri, 16 May 2008 08:12:01 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.33 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss "I feel like the first circle has been completed. We've started to change the company, and we've completed the circle. Now it's time for round two."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/boston_ballet_p_1.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/boston_ballet_p_1.shtml dance Fri, 16 May 2008 08:09:30 -0800 "Something inherently theatrical about Robert Rauschenberg's talent -- always evident in his radical feeling for color, light, composition and new ingredients and juxtapositions --prompted him to his boldest and freshest conceptions when he worked onstage. From the early 1950s until 2007 he designed for dance. And in the late '50s and early '60s, when he first came to fame, he was recurrently (at times constantly) occupied in dance theater."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/rauschenbergs_d.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/rauschenbergs_d.shtml dance Wed, 14 May 2008 06:11:33 -0800 Like Leonard Bernstein, "Robbins believed that it was possible to create a distinctively American style of high art that could draw on popular culture without compromising its own underlying seriousness."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/why_jerome_robb.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/why_jerome_robb.shtml dance Mon, 12 May 2008 06:20:53 -0800 "The company didn't envision its ambitious New Works Festival, the centerpiece of the San Francisco Ballet's 75th-anniversary season, as a microcosm of what's wrong with the ballet world. But the fact that this large outlay of money, time and talent -- unprecedented in its scope -- produced more mediocrity than revelation points to a big problem for ballet. Self-renewal is not its strong suit."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/evidence_of_a_r.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/evidence_of_a_r.shtml dance Sun, 11 May 2008 19:40:38 -0800 Antony Tudor "was known as the psychological choreographer, and he arrived when psychology entered American popular culture." It was a theme to which Tudor would return over and over in his long career.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/analyzing_tudor.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/analyzing_tudor.shtml dance Sun, 11 May 2008 09:47:55 -0800 Toe shoes are a major budget expense for ballet companies. The San Francisco Ballet provides 120 pairs of pointe shoes for each of its 40 female dancers. The American Ballet Theatre in New York City sets aside $350,000 for pointe shoes per season, about $7,500 per ballerina.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/tale_of_the_toe.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/tale_of_the_toe.shtml dance Fri, 09 May 2008 09:47:41 -0800 "We should have been a wonderful, democratic country. Instead we had 21 years of military dictatorship, something we are still paying for. So bossa nova represents a different way of life; a culture more sophisticated than the one we have today."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/the_bossa_nove.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/the_bossa_nove.shtml dance Thu, 08 May 2008 18:58:22 -0800 Australian Ballet's lavish pre-Christmas production of Peter Wright's The Nutcracker is responsible for the company's $1.8 million operating deficit, its 2007 annual report reveals.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/nutcracker_drag.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/nutcracker_drag.shtml dance Tue, 06 May 2008 16:19:22 -0800 "If ballet dancers say they are desperate to perform new choreography, and ballet directors say they would love to give it to them, can it really just be the public's lack of imagination that keeps our companies confined to such cautious repertoires? Or is it that we need to look to America for better ways of marketing the art form?"... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/why_dance_doesn_1.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/05/why_dance_doesn_1.shtml dance Sun, 04 May 2008 10:38:34 -0800 Richard Chen See is the new director of the New York International Ballet Competition. Chen See is a 14-year veteran of the Paul Taylor Dance Company.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/04/ny_ballet_compe.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/04/ny_ballet_compe.shtml dance Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:19:19 -0800 Robbins spent 30 years of his life working with Balanchine's NY City Ballet. "This kept him in Balanchine's shadow, but on the whole he loved and revered that shadow. It is hard to think of any world-famous artist in history working as Robbins chose to: as great a celebrity as Balanchine or more so, and much wealthier, he used the dancers Balanchine had trained, he used ballet technique as Balanchine had developed it, and his ballets were performed in a repertory that was dominated by Balanchine's."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/04/jerome_robbins_1.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/04/jerome_robbins_1.shtml dance Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:14:56 -0800 "His legacy is so abruptly divided between Broadway and ballet. I really think that inviting Robbins to be an associate choreographer Balanchine knew very well his Broadway work and the level of the talent, and especially Jerry's immense desire to work with him and admiration. Balanchine took him as an apprentice and trusted him. I think that was one of Balanchine's great qualities as a leader. But who took from Robbins? I don't know, I don't know, I really do not know."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/04/baryshnikov_on.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/04/baryshnikov_on.shtml dance Sun, 27 Apr 2008 09:52:34 -0800 The resort town of Blackpool has revealed plans to create a "festival and events zone", with a capacity of 30,000 on the seafront in the Tower Headland area, which would spearhead the town's "ambition to become the capital of dance"... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/04/the_way_to_rich.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/04/the_way_to_rich.shtml dance Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:39:02 -0800 Although some found her irritating, nobody thought her faux. Lydia Lopokova was the real thing, possessed of what Virginia Woolf described as 'the genius of personality'.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/04/lydia_lopokova.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/04/lydia_lopokova.shtml dance Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:28:01 -0800 San Francisco Ballet is celebrating its 75th anniversary with a whopping ten world premieres in three nights. "Since the choreographers include Paul Taylor, Mark Morris, Christopher Wheeldon, James Kudelka, Jorma Elo, Stanton Welch and Yuri Possokhov, the season is automatically of national and international significance."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/04/marking_a_miles.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/04/marking_a_miles.shtml dance Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:22:59 -0800 Prokofiev's original version offered a happy ending. "This version, written in 1935, was censored by Soviet authorities, who insisted on the reinstatement of Shakespeare's ending, but has now been recovered thanks to documents unearthed by the Princeton University musicologist Simon Morrison."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/04/in_this_version.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/04/in_this_version.shtml dance Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:43:19 -0800 In an interview with the Spanish daily El Mundo, Tamara Rojo, a principal dancer with the Royal Ballet in London, said good ballet had not been seen in Spain since Russian dance troupes toured it in the 1940s. "It is not this [elitism], nor the price of tickets - it is more expensive to see football. No, the real problem is lack of creativity and the lack of support from authorities makes dance distant from most people."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/04/why_dance_doesn.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/04/why_dance_doesn.shtml dance Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:36:21 -0800 "Russian ballet watchers are in for a good spring with the Kirov's tour. But a depressing future awaits if the factions in St Petersburg and Moscow start to harden and a cold war of dance ideologies starts to brew."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/04/russian_dance_w.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/04/russian_dance_w.shtml dance Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:15:29 -0800 The Prometheus Dance Elders Ensemble's youngest member is 55; the oldest, 85. "Nearly half of the Elders are or were professors - of medieval literature, social work, education, the arts. They are also painters, models, activists, therapists, mothers, grandmothers, and widows. Most of all, they are very much themselves."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/04/agebusting_danc.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/04/agebusting_danc.shtml dance Sun, 20 Apr 2008 09:09:21 -0800 "New Jersey Ballet, a company that takes pride in its local roots, will kick off its 50th anniversary season with a tour of Russia in June... Seventeen of the troupe's 20 dancers will join the tour, performing a repertoire largely set to jazz, blues and electronic music that highlights the company's American character."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/04/nj_ballet_mount.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/04/nj_ballet_mount.shtml dance Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:22:47 -0800 "Tecktonik" is the word that scores of young clubbers across Europe use to describe a dance that is a mix of rave and breakdancing. Dancers sport mullets and 1980s muscle shirts. They practice moves such as "Le Brushing" or "Le Pot de Gel," which mimic the motions of brushing and putting gel through hair.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/04/a_new_dance_cra.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/04/a_new_dance_cra.shtml dance Sun, 13 Apr 2008 08:50:34 -0800 The company is moving into a new home. It's finances are okay. And a leadership transition is so far going smoothly...... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/04/joffrey_ballet_1.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/04/joffrey_ballet_1.shtml dance Sun, 13 Apr 2008 08:50:06 -0800 "Over the next few months, some of Britain's most successful choreographers will be unveiling new work... All four have an interest in crossing styles: from ballet or Indian classical to modern dance. At the same time, they've looked for a public beyond the traditional dance audience. And they're all in demand, worldwide."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/04/the_british_are.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/04/the_british_are.shtml dance Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:49:41 -0800 "A former dancer who trained with London's Royal Ballet was announced yesterday as the new executive director of the Australian Ballet. Californian-born Valerie Wilder, who has been the executive director of the Boston Ballet in the US since 2002, was tempted away from a return to Toronto, where she spent almost 20 years with the National Ballet of Canada, to take up the Australian Ballet job."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/04/justresigned_bo.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/04/justresigned_bo.shtml dance Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:22:50 -0800 "Pilar López, who has died aged 95, was the last representative of the golden age of flamenco ballet in the 1930s and 1940s. She was considered a fine, serious classical dancer, but it was as a choreographer and teacher of young dancers that she excelled."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/04/famed_flamenco.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2008/04/famed_flamenco.shtml dance Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:52:28 -0800