http://www.artsjournal.com/dance.shtml Copyright 2009 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:55:05 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.33 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 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 "This was the fourth annual Thrill the World event and interest was at an all time high to honor the late King of Pop, Michael Jackson. Thrill the World reported that 22,932 people danced to Thriller in 32 countries around the globe."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/worldwide_mass.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/worldwide_mass.shtml dance Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:26:55 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/five_hours_thre.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/five_hours_thre.shtml dance Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:09:12 -0800 "Japan's standing as a 'hub' for salsa in Asia rises every day. International talent flock to the capital; specialist publications cover the dance form as a swelling number of aspiring dancers scour the city for classes."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/salsa_in_the_la.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/salsa_in_the_la.shtml dance Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:56:06 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/dancing_about_t.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/dancing_about_t.shtml dance Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:50:02 -0800 "Has dance simply caved into the wider, sexist culture, or are there specific issues affecting the profession right now? And is this apparent marginalisation something women have chosen - or has it been foisted on them?"... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/why_are_male_ch.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/why_are_male_ch.shtml dance Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:28:27 -0800 "Dance is suffering from a shortage of high-profile women because of the difficulties faced by female choreographers trying to juggle a career in the sector with motherhood, according to leading industry figures."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/even_dance_suff.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/even_dance_suff.shtml dance Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:07:05 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/how_pilobolus_a.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/how_pilobolus_a.shtml dance Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:55:22 -0800 Joyce Theater stagehands voted yesterday to join the "powerful union" that "struck Broadway in 2007 and negotiated a contract at Carnegie Hall that resulted in a props supervisor earning $530,044 last year." Now Joyce executive director Linda Shelton says she's "concerned that some dance companies won't be able to afford us anymore."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/reacting_to_rif.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/reacting_to_rif.shtml dance Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:02:54 -0800 Undergrads who pursue the University of East London's urban dance degree -- an anomaly in the UK -- are taught "not just hip-hop styles like krumping, popping and locking, but also the fundamentals of African dance, capoeira and kathak." Purists sneer, but the program's "popularity is booming."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/urban_dance_if.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/urban_dance_if.shtml dance Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:54:52 -0800 High school administrators who "fretted over how to deal with freaking, grinding and other provocative dances" are combating "explicit teen dancing with an equal dose of explicitness" in the contracts they now require students and parents to sign "before a teenager can step onto the dance floor."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/these_dance_mov.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/these_dance_mov.shtml dance Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:43:13 -0800 "It's estimated about 20,000 people in more than 200 locations in 37 countries around the world participated in the dance which occurred Saturday night or Sunday morning depending on where you were."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/worldwide_thril.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/worldwide_thril.shtml dance Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:14:55 -0800 "As Morphoses prepares to open its third season at City Center on Thursday, Mr. Wheeldon is facing a crucial moment in which the viability of his venture seems highly uncertain. His contracts with the Vail International Dance Festival and City Center in New York will end this season, and renewals must be negotiated. In the current economic climate fund-raising possibilities could hardly look more dire."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/can_christopher.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/can_christopher.shtml dance Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:02:30 -0800 The company's brand strategist explains: "I think the ballet really needed to put a stake in the ground and say, 'This is happening here, you need to take note.' Because no one else would do that for them. One of our big challenges was to shift the perception of what ballet is all about."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/to_escape_nutcr.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/to_escape_nutcr.shtml dance Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:36:23 -0800 "Perhaps the most salient characteristic of [Deborah] Colker's work since she founded the company that bears her name 15 years ago has been her desire to toy with perceptions of dimension, direction and distance. An early piece, Rota, featured dancers performing in a large spinning wheel, like hamsters at play."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/why_must_the_st.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/why_must_the_st.shtml dance Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:14:19 -0800 "That he continues choreographing is something of a minor miracle. Not only is the arts economy dire, but Perez also has been visually impaired for the last decade. Moving slowly and burdened with hazy vision at best, Perez says the work keeps him going."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/rudy_perez_las.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/rudy_perez_las.shtml dance Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:00:09 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/with_new_digs_b.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/with_new_digs_b.shtml dance Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:49:07 -0800 Miami City Ballet opens its season this week "without any of the new works or big classical productions that have generated excitement in recent years. MCB's budget is $11.2 million, down from $13.8 million last year. Eight dancers did not have their contracts renewed...."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/financial_reali.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/financial_reali.shtml dance Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:35:14 -0800 "The prognosis for the Oakland Ballet Company looked grim in April when founding Artistic Director Ronn Guidi suddenly resigned (for the second time in a decade)." But this weekend, "the company gave its first concert since Guidi's retirement. The short, mixed program left ballet fans, if not connoisseurs of choreography, in a hopeful mood."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/oakland_ballet_14.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/oakland_ballet_14.shtml dance Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:13:48 -0800 To survive in a tight economy, Pennsylvania Ballet "has chosen pay freezes and furloughs. The non-artistic staff has shrunk by five from its 22 positions through attrition, and those jobs are going unfilled." But tomorrow night the ballet opens its season "with its full roster of about 40 dancers, and its orchestra."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/the_sacrifices.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/the_sacrifices.shtml dance Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:39:25 -0800