http://www.artsjournal.com/dance.shtml Copyright 2010 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:13:20 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.33 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss The school of the Ballet Nacional de Cuba "is now world-famous, gathering its students from the island's rural poor and urban delinquent," and its training "is also world-class." But while ballet is "a national entertainment" in Cuba, the country's "political, economic and cultural limbo" means its astounding dancers have very few choices.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/cuban_ballet_a.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/cuban_ballet_a.shtml dance Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:47:44 -0800 "After discussions with the Sony [Centre] and attempts to have Toronto city hall officials intervene, the ballet company created a later slot for its own Russian program," though it still worries that the Kirov's visit in March of next year will be a drain on its box office.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/canadas_nationa_12.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/canadas_nationa_12.shtml dance Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:29:49 -0800 "Don't let a point of reference prevent you from having a moment of a fresh new experience," he advises. And: "Connect to physical pleasures of life."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/ohad_naharins_c.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/ohad_naharins_c.shtml dance Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:47:22 -0800 "This feels like a Mack truck falling out of the sky and hitting us," says Kevin Garland, executive director of the National Ballet of Canada. "It's great to have the Kirov coming to Toronto, but the timing couldn't be worse for us, and we didn't hear anything about it in time for us to plan accordingly."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/kirov_in_confli.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/kirov_in_confli.shtml dance Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:47:06 -0800 "The idea of opera singers moving choreographically is tantalizing. About the specific fantasy of a dancing Carmen, however, I would caution, be careful what you wish for. Many great opera singers are just not built for dancing."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/daning_opera_si.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/daning_opera_si.shtml dance Sun, 07 Feb 2010 09:54:58 -0800 Kalpana, a filmed dance-drama by Uday Shankar (Ravi's oldest brother, and considered the father of modern Indian dance), will be reassembled and restored by Martin Scorcese's World Cinema Institute. No complete print of the film exists in India.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/landmark_1948_f.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/landmark_1948_f.shtml dance Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:56:36 -0800 Yes, it has cheesy production values and "pits dance styles against each other, usually to the disadvantage of contemporary choreography. Most of the numbers are stunt-heavy hip-hop routines, disco, Broadway, lindy hop and jazz." Somehow none of that hinders its addictiveness.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/the_irresistibl.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/the_irresistibl.shtml dance Thu, 04 Feb 2010 07:26:42 -0800 Her name is Laurretta Summerscales. "Fans are already asking whether the baby of the English National Ballet, who has just triumphed in her first principal role, might be the new Darcey Bussell."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/londons_hot_new.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/londons_hot_new.shtml dance Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:47:32 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/a_star_academy.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/a_star_academy.shtml dance Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:37:49 -0800 "So You Think You Can Dance ('the search for Britain's favourite dancer') now features certain choreographers regularly, announcing them with X Factor-style fireworks ahead of the dance they have created.... Is the dance world excited by this - or horrified?"... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/choreographers_3.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/choreographers_3.shtml dance Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:59:52 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/new_english_con.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/new_english_con.shtml dance Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:47:17 -0800 "The Paul Taylor Dance Foundation, which runs the company, said its executive director, Martin I. Kagan, resigned on Friday. He was effectively replaced by the company's general manager, John Tomlinson, who was given the title of managing director of the foundation."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/paul_taylor_co.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/paul_taylor_co.shtml dance Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:32:34 -0800 The head of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama said "that he could see the school renaming itself as a result of including dance and ... that changing the title to the Royal Scottish Academy of Music, Dance and Drama would probably have to happen 'sooner rather than later'."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/scottish_drama.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/scottish_drama.shtml dance Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:34:12 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/01/a_first_at_prix.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/01/a_first_at_prix.shtml dance Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:24:20 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/01/baltimore_balle.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/01/baltimore_balle.shtml dance Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:19:02 -0800 "A federal judge has ruled against a woman who was arrested for dancing with a group of 17 others at the memorial dedicated to President Jefferson."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/01/so_you_think_yo_2.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/01/so_you_think_yo_2.shtml dance Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:57:41 -0800 "Despite the choppy footage throughout the roughly 30 minutes of unedited film, there is something sacred about the way in which the dancers, both men and women, ride a wave of soundless rhythm. The movement is simple; it's how deeply the dancers travel inside of the easy steps that matters the most."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/01/watching_maya_d.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/01/watching_maya_d.shtml dance Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:01:54 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/01/choreographing_1.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/01/choreographing_1.shtml dance Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:51:16 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/01/merce_cunningha_12.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/01/merce_cunningha_12.shtml dance Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:05:58 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/01/how_dancers_aud.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/01/how_dancers_aud.shtml dance Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:50:48 -0800 "Diaghilev used the Ballets Russes as a vehicle for promoting synthesis of the arts in a bid to overcome the fragmentation characteristic of the 19th century. Diaghilev's artistic vision was also a bridge between East and West, exemplified by the involvement in Ballets Russes of artists like Picasso and Henri Matisse and the composer Satie."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/01/revisiting_diag.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/01/revisiting_diag.shtml dance Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:47:05 -0800 "The ruggedly handsome Jiri Jelinek, who has been praised all over the world for his powerful stage presence and strong partnering skills, is the latest coup for National Ballet artistic director Karen Kain as she carefully crafts the company of her dreams."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/01/canadas_nationa_11.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/01/canadas_nationa_11.shtml dance Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:46:39 -0800 "It was the place and culture Katherine Dunham fell in love with, the place that helped her build her dance vocabulary and her spiritual, artistic self. If it weren't for her research in Haiti, she wouldn't have become the major American dance artist that she was."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/01/what_haiti_mean.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/01/what_haiti_mean.shtml dance Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:51:22 -0800 Russian skaters Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin are being charged with tone-deafness, if not outright racism, over the original dance they're bringing to the Vancouver Olympics. In a routine meant to pay tribute to Australian indigenous culture, they perform in brown face makeup and bodysuits with leaves and white markings that look more like frosting on gingerbread then Aboriginal body painting.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/01/ice_dancing_wor.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/01/ice_dancing_wor.shtml dance Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:48:39 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/01/figure_skating.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/01/figure_skating.shtml dance Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:46:31 -0800