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DECEMBER
1999
DANCE DREAMS:Dance in Boston has languished, but
a resurgence of interest in a local choreography commissioning project sets up
new hopes.Boston Globe
01/02/00
CREATIVE CRI$I$: Boston choreographers say their
greatest impediment is money. Boston
Herald 12/31/99
SUCCESSIVE SPLENDOR: Ten
years ago the Alvin Ailey Dance Company was in the red. A decade into Judith
Jamison's direction, now it's got the largest budget of any modern dance company
and popular and critical success. "I don't think there's any doubt that Judy is
the principal reason that Ailey is one of the few modern-dance companies that's
survived the death of its founder," says Ailey board president Henry McGee.
New York Magazine
12/29/99
LIFE
AFTER MARTHA: The Martha Graham Dance Company has had a rough time since its
founder died. Suddenly there was no big personality around which the universe
turned, no fund-raising lucky charm. Can former Graham dancer Janet Eilber
revitalize things? Los Angeles Times
12/19/99
MODERN DANCE:
Tracing movement across a century. Orange
County Register 12/12/99
TOUGH NUT: The New York
City Ballet musicians strike is over, but the issues were legitimate. Says a
former board member on the state of the music: "Ugly sound, wrong notes, missing
notes have become increasingly familiar. The musical direction has grown slacker
and slacker – it’s no secret that the company has been unable to hire a strong
new musical director because of the absurd rules and attitudes that have come to
govern the orchestra’s performance." It was time to confront the issue.
New York Observer 12/10/99
DEEP
CHILL: Has it come to this? - the Kennedy Center stage covered with ice and
a "Nutcracker" atop it that would be better suited to the local municipal
skating rink rather than a major performing arts venue. Washington Post 12/10/99
NEW YORK CITY BALLET comes to agreement with
striking musicians. New York Times 12/7/99
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Musicians
vote to accept contract 12/8/99
STREET
HOCKEY, MOUNTIES AND A HUDSON'S BAY BLANKET: Royal Winnipeg Ballet's new
"Canadianized" Nutcracker has audiences jumping to their feet to cheer. Some
critics, on the other hand... Toronto
Globe and Mail 12/7/99
A
STRANGER'S TASTE: Siobhan Davies was given four weeks to create an opening
piece for the Royal Ballet's reentry to Covent Garden. "While the Royal Ballet
is badly in need of new ideas and fresh choreography, Davies was a strange
choice. Barefoot, weighted and understated, her choreography is a wriggly,
dense, slippery kind of calligraphy in which the entire body seems to slither in
a constant motion that you can never quite freeze in your head." London Telegraph 12/7/99
BALLET
SMACKDOWN: Want to save ballet? How about some lessons from the brilliant
marketers of the wildly popular World Wrestling Federation? Seattle Weekly 12/10/99
RENEWING
TRADITION: Ailey successor Judith Jamison has become a High Priestess of
American dance. Washington Post
12/5/99
TOE
SHOE TYRANNY: They may look glamorous, but the physical pain is the stuff of
legend. Los Angeles Times
12/5/99
BETWEEN PLEASURE
AND PAIN: Scientists who study pain say ballerinas withstand more pain than
any athlete, even football players. New medical study reveals that every dancer
examined in Canada's National Ballet has arthritis from dancing on pointe.
National Post (Canada) 12/2/99
THE SAME
SPEED - EVERYTIME: New York City Ballet is using taped music while its
orchestra is on strike. For the dancers, not such a bad thing,
maybe? The Guardian 12/2/99 |
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