What would Balanchine have thought of YouTube? Arlene Croce tells us (with an assist from novelist Jonathan Lethem). … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2009
What would Balanchine have thought of a YouTube presence?
To continue Paul Parish's incredibly smart discussion of why we--potential live-dance audiences, actual live-dance audiences, committed dance enthusiasts, dance scholars--all need video libraries like the Ketinoa collection on YouTube, here are two useful sources I dug up: --Novelist Jonathan Lethem's fantastic 2007 Harper's article, "The Ecstasy of Influence," on how artmaking necessarily … [Read more...]
Sunday October 11:
Balanchine Trust puts pressure on Ketinoa ballet channel, and YouTube shuts it down. … [Read more...]
Balanchine Trust puts pressure on the Ketinoa ballet channel on YouTube, and the Tube shuts the whole massive thing down
While we're waiting for the New York Times to do some investigating on the Balanchine Trust's role in the shutting down of a 1300-video ballet archive on YouTube (nudge, nudge), here's Foot contributor Paul Parish, from the Bay Area: Hey Apollinaire -- I don't know how upsetting you find this action, but it's really big if you ask me. I went to that archive all the time and studied there for … [Read more...]
Friday, October 9
Youngish ballet choreographers at American Ballet Theatre this fall. Yippee! … [Read more...]
American Ballet Theatre’s generous dose of premieres
I think it's really exciting that American Ballet Theatre chose to do three premieres for their fall season: Bravo! And they even picked choreographers with solid--or better--track records: besides their new and cherished resident choreographer, Alexei Ratmansky, prolific 30something choreographers Benjamin Millepied and Aszure Barton. I've admired works by Barton and Millepied before, but these … [Read more...]
Tuesday October 6
Fall for Dance: the eclectico-democratic festival tries a theme this year. … [Read more...]
Democracy’s Dream, Ballets Russes’ still potent promise
That would be Fall for Dance, which just finished its five-program, two-week run at City Center. Here's my Financial Times review of all but the final program, and here's a teaser for those not so sure they want to click: The all-ages audiences for City Center's Fall for Dance festival are a democracy's dream. People are so buzzed from having snagged the $10 tickets that sell out in a day that … [Read more...]
Thursday October 1:
Emio Greco: for madmen and movement lovers only … [Read more...]
For madmen and movement lovers only
Emio Greco | PC's [purgatorio] POPOPERA is kind of a mess, but if you love movement --watching it created with the breath, thought about unusually--you should head over to the Joyce this week (through Sunday). And you could probably get in for $10. (The Joyce has "updated their pricing structure"--i.e. succumbed to recession specials. On Tuesday, there were a lot of empty seats and gleeful … [Read more...]