http://www.artsjournal.com/dance.shtml Copyright 2009 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:14:20 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.33 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss "Rita Marcalo has stopped taking her medication ahead of the event at The Bradford Playhouse, which the audience will be invited to film. Arts Council England, which is funding the performance, said it aimed to raise awareness about the condition." An epilepsy charity has "urged Ms Marcalo to reconsider the event."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/dancer_plans_to.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/dancer_plans_to.shtml dance Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:30:51 -0800 Daniel Day-Lewis told Oprah "that he managed to avoid dancing in a movie directed by Rob Marshall, who happens to be an accomplished Broadway choreographer. That's kind of like signing up for swimming lessons and then not getting in the water."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/if_daylewis_has.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/if_daylewis_has.shtml dance Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:19:16 -0800 In its 120 years, the Moulin Rouge has evolved from "essentially a dancing brothel" to a music hall to Gallic neo-vaudeville for tourists. But the hall's constant is "the cancan, a strenuous chorus-line number in 2/4 time that demands balance, rhythm and stamina. It is popular entertainment incarnate, which is what drew Royal Winnipeg Ballet artistic director Andre Lewis to the Moulin Rouge as the theme for a new full-length story ballet."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/royal_winnipeg_3.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/royal_winnipeg_3.shtml dance Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:22:20 -0800 "It's not often that you see a manifestation of Satan within the precincts of Westminster Abbey, but at a ceremony to unveil a memorial to the founders of the Royal Ballet, he made a striking appearance. [Two dancers] took the part of the fallen angel in synchronised performances of an extract from Ninette de Valois's Job, performed at either end of the long nave, so that the entire congregation could see something."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/the_royal_balle_7.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/the_royal_balle_7.shtml dance Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:22:39 -0800 "Nothing. (laughter) No, it was a joke in the dressing rooms at Judson. We were all naming categories of visual art practitioners and someone said, 'We were doing postmodern dance at Judson.' We all cracked up and no one countered us."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/what_does_postm.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/what_does_postm.shtml dance Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:05:36 -0800 Katherine E. Brown, currently WNYC's chief operating officer, will "oversee all nonartistic matters" at the ballet, including "fund-raising, finances, marketing, media and education, responsibilities previously held by Peter Martins, the company's ballet master in chief."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/splitting_dutie.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/splitting_dutie.shtml dance Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:10:05 -0800 Drawing on a great deal of new research, and relying wherever possible on contemporary journals and letters, Sjeng Scheijen puts Diaghilev into a different frame to any of his previous biographers. He shows us a man "driven by an overpowering need to explore the mystery of human creativity in its highest form" who "resolved to transform his age and consecrate his life to the cult of beauty."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/a_new_take_on_d_1.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/a_new_take_on_d_1.shtml dance Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:43:48 -0800 Following its near-collapse last year, the Vancouver company is binding itself to its community with "its first choreographic series, Surfacing, which will feature commissioned work by four local choreographers performed by company members and 15 dancers from the Arts Umbrella Graduate Program."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/ballet_bc_launc.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/ballet_bc_launc.shtml dance Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:06:40 -0800 "'Forty years,' reflects Joan Myers Brown on the dance company she founded and continues to run, 'means really another year that we've got to struggle. But, the fact that we are still here is amazing'."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/philadanco_at_4.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/philadanco_at_4.shtml dance Sun, 15 Nov 2009 08:55:53 -0800 The withdrawal came on the third day of a hearing expected to last two weeks. Dublin-based designer Jen Kelly had claimed his original costumes for the show were used and altered without his consent, and that he had been "airbrushed out of the history of the show" and not given proper credit for his work.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/designer_withdr.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/designer_withdr.shtml dance Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:24:08 -0800 "Dance companies and artists are to be given the chance to pitch projects to a team of 18 producers, including Sadler's Wells, The Lowry and The Place, in a Dragon's Den-style scheme." (Dragon's Den is a BBC program that "sees entrepreneurs pitching for investment from some of Britain's top business brains.")... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/uk_dance_cos_pi.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/uk_dance_cos_pi.shtml dance Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:50:50 -0800 "It now seems like such a brilliant idea that it is a surprise no one had thought of it before: pairing figure skaters with hockey players for ice dancing routines in the ultimate ice rink reality show. That's what the [CBC] has done this fall with Battle of the Blades, a huge hit across Canada."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/a_sort_of_danci.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/a_sort_of_danci.shtml dance Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:29:43 -0800 Christopher Wheeldon's dream of a bi-national, transatlantic ballet company, while still intact for now, has been put in real jeopardy by the economic downturn. Tobi Tobias: "To judge by [his] latest piece, Wheeldon isn't moving in a direction that makes his work seem worth sustaining a troupe largely dedicated to showcasing it."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/is_morphoses_wo.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/is_morphoses_wo.shtml dance Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:04:23 -0800 "When it rains hard, dancers leap around buckets placed underneath the leaks. The Houston Ballet has struggled with challenging conditions at its headquarters in a former clothing factory since 1984" -- but that's due to change in 2011 with a new $53 million home, now under construction.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/houston_ballet_3.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/houston_ballet_3.shtml dance Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:03:35 -0800 In a letter to the editor, the chairman of Texas Ballet Theater explains why her organization is doing without live music, even at the new Winspear Opera House: "It was heartbreaking, but temporarily suspending live music was the financially responsible decision. Had we not done so, there would be no Texas Ballet Theater."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/live_ballet_min.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/live_ballet_min.shtml dance Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:30:03 -0800 "In contrast to the outsize personalities who dominate much of modern dance's history, he is a thoroughly 21st-century leader, with a belief that bigger is usually worse when it comes to dance (work on grand stages, he has said, 'looks like a bunch of No. 2 pencils in an earthquake') and little interest in lending his name to a specific style or ideology."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/a_choreographer_1.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/a_choreographer_1.shtml dance Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:21:49 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/pittsburgh_ball_8.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/pittsburgh_ball_8.shtml dance Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:06:23 -0800 "So I talked to the team and to the dancers about bird behaviour, including my research on corvids [crows, rooks and jays]. I drew on examples such as the dance of the blue manakin, which, for me, is avian tango, and the Lawes's parotia (the six-plumed bird of paradise), which has a courtship dance that looks like a bird ballet."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/rambert_dance_c_1.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/rambert_dance_c_1.shtml dance Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:03:49 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/merces_work_wit.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/merces_work_wit.shtml dance Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:27:06 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/the_red_shoes_r.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/the_red_shoes_r.shtml dance Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:25:58 -0800 Founded in 1989, Bangarra is now the flagship performing company of Australia's (and perhaps the world's) aboriginal peoples. "When you sit down and see a Bangarra show, you don't realise you've just been given a 50-minute history lesson, you just feel like you've been taken on a journey and it comes back to you in waves.''... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/bangarra_dance.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/bangarra_dance.shtml dance Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:07:42 -0800 Tacita Dean's Craneway Event "records three days of rehearsals by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company at the Craneway Pavilion," a converted automobile factory near San Francisco, about a year before Cunningham's death. The documentary film reminds Alastair Macaulay of Degas's backstage-at-the-ballet paintings.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/a_cunningham_co.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/a_cunningham_co.shtml dance Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:34:35 -0800 A.O. Scott: "[The documentary's] greater virtue, and the substance of Mr. Wiseman's particular genius, is the way it transfixes you with the inner workings of an institution you may not otherwise care about."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/one_of_the_fine.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/one_of_the_fine.shtml dance Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:30:41 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/old_ballet_flor.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/old_ballet_flor.shtml dance Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:12:51 -0800 "Dohee Lee and Jo Kreiter will be honored for outstanding achievement by [January's] 24th annual Isadora Duncan Awards, which recognize contributions to Bay Area dance...." The San Francisco Ballet and the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival received seven nominations apiece.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/isadora_duncan.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/isadora_duncan.shtml dance Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:03:59 -0800