“Many from the Ballet Nacional are quietly choosing to leave behind difficult conditions: Blackouts that make rehearsal spaces and exercise rooms swelteringly hot. Scarce medical supplies. Pointe shoes stuck in customs for months.” - The New York Times
Choreographer Joshua Beamish is the founding director of Ballet Vancouver, which, like Ballet BC and Goh Ballet, will focus on contemporary choreography. The company will present a home season and tour internationally. - Vancouver Sun (Yahoo!)
Earlier this year, the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA), which administers the grant, announced that a lead funder, the Mellon Foundation, would no longer support the grant after this year. - NPR
“I was at the Schauspielhaus Zürich … as the new artistic director. I didn’t have to write a proposal for a piece, and I had a lot of resources. I went into the studio with the dancers with no theme. … What does it mean to have this kind of artistic freedom?” - Dance Magazine
“I don’t feel like I’ve got anything to prove. I’m slightly less wired and my life doesn’t depend on (performing) anymore. It’s like when you listen to an album and discover a bonus track. A Single Man is my bonus track. It’s a nice extra thing that I’m really excited to do.” - Pointe Magazine
“'Moving the equipment with just Kat and an intern is the last thing that would expect Kat to try to do,’ the report stated.” - Boston Globe (Archive Today)
Ticket sales are so poor, the Stuttgart Ballet will be performing for an Opera House between 4 and 19 percent full when the German company comes to Washington early next month. BodyTraffic, the Los Angeles troupe booked for the smaller Eisenhower Theatre October 29 and 30, is at 12 percent capacity. - Washingtonian
From the get-go, Common People Dance Eisteddfod has predominantly attracted middle-aged women. (One year, a team did an interpretive dance on the theme of “the symptoms of perimenopause in a subtropical climate that’s going through climate change”.) - The Guardian
When he directed the Bolshoi Ballet (2004-08) and after, he had a grand plan to stage the entire canon of great Russian ballets and classical scores. But, though St. Petersburg-born, he grew up in Kyiv, and his parents still live there. Putin’s invasion has changed both his life and his career. - Financial Times
Hundreds of these dances, known as emotes, have been released on Fortnite, where players can buy them for a few dollars each. Epic Games, Fortnite’s creator, says it pays the dances’ creators, but some choreographers beg to differ, and the company has been sued multiple times. - The New York Times
Kaitlyn Sardin, a twentysomething African-American from Orlando who won her first junior world championship in 2009, now mixes up traditional Irish dance with hip-hop, Afrobeat and voguing. She’s amassed over 100,000 followers on Instagram and TikTok and performed in Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter tour. - Dance Magazine
It’s because there are cis men doing the cheerleading alongside the women — and the Minnesota Vikings squad has become the primary target, despite the fact that several other teams have had men on their squads for years. (Not to mention that, until World War II, cheerleading was done mostly by men.) - Vox (MSN)
Interestingly, Ferri has no prior connection to the Vienna State Opera. ... She sees this as a positive, especially in light of the two years she’s had to prepare for the role. “I have no personal agenda, and it gave me a lot of freedom to step back and observe.” - Pointe Magazine
Anthony Krutzkamp, a Kentucky native, is currently both artistic and executive director at Sacramento Ballet, where he achieved record ticket sales, formed a second company, and started the organization's first endowment. He succeeds outgoing co-artistic directors Mikelle Bruzina and Harald Uwe Kern in October. - Louisville Courier Journal
Stephen Nakagawa, a former dancer with the Washington Ballet, was hired just days after the Kennedy Center fired its entire dance programming staff. Nakagawa had written a letter to the center’s president, Richard Grenell, saying he wants to help “end the dominance of leftist ideologies in the arts.” - The New York Times
