http://www.artsjournal.com/dance.shtml Copyright 2009 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:29:36 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.33 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/07/a_dance_lovers.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/07/a_dance_lovers.shtml dance Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:56:26 -0800 "It seems the melancholic music is a perfect match for the typical Finnish soul. 'It's a little bit sad, and it's beautiful,' a woman tells me at a dimly lit Helsinki restaurant that regularly hosts dances. Paradoxically, when she moves to these sad melodies, she feels happy. (She didn't want to be named, her reason being another national trait: shyness.)"... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/07/the_masochism_t.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/07/the_masochism_t.shtml dance Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:11:44 -0800 This week the coach of South Africa's national rugby team defended an eye-gouging incident by one of his players by saying, in effect, that rugby ain't ballet, it's a violent sport. So South African Ballet Theatre invited the players to take a class with them and see how they fared opposite some real men in tights.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/07/hey_rugby_playe.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/07/hey_rugby_playe.shtml dance Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:30:57 -0800 Pina Bausch could "take you to a higher place that you didn't even know existed. Not all the time and not every time, but she could do it. How? One way was by demanding that her performers dig deep within their own memories and feelings; famously, Bausch said that she was not interested in how people move, but in what moves them." A clip-by-clip guide to her work.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/07/the_elation_and.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/07/the_elation_and.shtml dance Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:56:46 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/new_york_intern.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/new_york_intern.shtml dance Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:51:09 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/a_pina_bausch_n.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/a_pina_bausch_n.shtml dance Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:35:11 -0800 The death of Pina Bausch "is an appalling shock and a tragedy not only for the dance world, but also for the entire international arts world. Bausch's visionary work as dancer, choreographer and creator of the Tanztheater Wuppertal had a reach way, way beyond the confines of the German town where she worked. Theatre and opera simply wouldn't look the way they do today without Bausch; she has also had an enormous influence on visual art and cinema...."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/bauschs_influen.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/bauschs_influen.shtml dance Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:09:31 -0800 "Dancing is believed to be important in the courtship of a variety of species, including humans." Studies indicate that women are especially attracted to men who have bodily symmetry and who move in a coordinated, balanced way."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/so_you_think_yo_1.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/so_you_think_yo_1.shtml dance Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:08:49 -0800 "Why break up so solidly established an ensemble? Because modern-dance troupes, which are almost always dominated by a single choreographer, have a notoriously poor track record of institutional survival after their charismatic founders pass away. Mr. Cunningham, by contrast, is more interested in preserving his fragile choreographic legacy than in keeping his company afloat."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/why_doese_merce.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/why_doese_merce.shtml dance Sun, 28 Jun 2009 08:00:20 -0800 Anyone who knows anything at all about ballet knows that it's unbelievably hard work. "We're very strong-minded people. We learn to control the struggle. You wake up every single day to hammer your body, and you do it, and it does something to you."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/carlos_acosta_o_1.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/carlos_acosta_o_1.shtml dance Sun, 28 Jun 2009 07:55:45 -0800 "No one has yet to recapture the impossible suaveness and otherworldly nimbleness of Jackson as a dancer -- the Moonwalk completely rewrote the book on male sexuality in music, a move that evoked both deep-space androids and the rakish seducers of the old myths."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/dance_legacy_mi.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/dance_legacy_mi.shtml dance Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:51:49 -0800 "While visitors to the NYPL [exhibit] will not see Nijinsky dance, they can see the famous diary he kept as he was going mad. Brilliant set and costume designs by Leon Bakst and Natalia Goncharova, plus photographs, musical manuscripts and old BBC films, place the Ballets Russes' achievement in context, supplying a perspective that the theatergoers who flocked to its productions never had."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/ny_public_libra_5.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/ny_public_libra_5.shtml dance Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:46:18 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/that_lagerfeld.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/that_lagerfeld.shtml dance Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:37:38 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/nina_ananiashvi.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/nina_ananiashvi.shtml dance Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:57:54 -0800 "The news in L.A.'s dance world this week has been the West Coast premiere of works by choreographer Yvonne Rainer. But today's bigger news is that when Rainer's 'RoS Indexical' and 'Spiraling Down' are performed at REDCAT on Thursday through Sunday, the esteemed 74-year-old will be on stage as well."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/yvonne_rainer_t.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/yvonne_rainer_t.shtml dance Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:51:01 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/moscow_internat.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/moscow_internat.shtml dance Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:43:26 -0800 "Two lighting technicians with Russia's world-famous Bolshoi Ballet [are] beginning 40-month jail terms in Hong Kong Tuesday for beating up and robbing a prostitute."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/bolshoi_technic.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/bolshoi_technic.shtml dance Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:42:06 -0800 "The choreographer Siobhan Davies has just announced that she is creating Britain's first digital archive for dance, which will contain films, images, notes and texts relating to her work, dating back to 1977. It will be very useful, of course. But the most vital mode of transmission is human memory...."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/dance_archives.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/dance_archives.shtml dance Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:12:35 -0800 "The National Ballet of Canada and the Royal Winnipeg Ballet will share a stage in Vancouver next February as part of the cultural Olympiad accompanying the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. The Olympic ballet gala, featuring contemporary dance from the two classical ballet companies, is one of 35 new arts projects announced Monday by Vancouver 2010 organizers."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/national_royal.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/national_royal.shtml dance Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:07:40 -0800 "Choreography is the most fragile of art forms. The Balanchine repertory was lucky in that, within a few years of his death the Balanchine Trust was established to supervise stagings. But the Ashton repertory is in more perilous condition."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/frederick_ashto.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/frederick_ashto.shtml dance Sun, 21 Jun 2009 10:50:25 -0800 "Back in the early 1970s, Yvonne Rainer was in the midst of a transition from postmodern dance maker to experimental film auteur. She still had all kinds of ideas for new dances, but she would jokingly send them to her friend, the choreographer Trisha Brown, instead of realizing them herself. It has only been in the last decade, after a request from a stellar admirer, that Rainer returned to dance, and now, at age 74, she finds herself firmly in the throes of her first artistic love."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/a_dance_radical.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/a_dance_radical.shtml dance Sun, 21 Jun 2009 10:27:59 -0800 "After a furious three-week fundraising effort that included a spectacular gala performance last week, the ballet announced that it has surpassed its $750,000 needed to guarantee that it could continue beyond June 30. By the end of the day Wednesday, the company had raised $853,271."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/oregon_ballet_t_2.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/oregon_ballet_t_2.shtml dance Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:57:14 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/more_success_te.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/more_success_te.shtml dance Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:55:49 -0800 "In a few months Bovim Ballet, which ends its current five-city national tour at Gold Reef City this week, has certainly proved a point. After premiering at Artscape in January and having had a sold-out season at Oude Libertas in Stellenbosch, South Africa's newest classically-based dance company has not only been surviving on box office, but making a neat profit."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/in_south_africa.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/in_south_africa.shtml dance Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:51:32 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/reviving_les_ba.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/06/reviving_les_ba.shtml dance Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:54:36 -0800