Category: dance

“Ossadnik was a principal dancer with the German National Theater from 1987 to 1991, after which he danced in France with the Ballet Theatre de Bordeaux from 1991 to 1995. Since moving to the United States in 1995, he has worked with various companies across the country and maintains a relationship with the Balanchine Trust.” For the last decade, he was ballet master at Ballet Idaho.

A recent internet trend is inspiring drivers all over the world to jump out of moving vehicles and dance in the street while a friend in the passenger seat films, and now transpiration officials and law enforcement are starting to speak out against the dangerous fad.

Assigned birth gender shouldn’t limit dancers to certain roles – “that was what the English National Ballet showed me,” says genderfluid dancer Chase Johnsey. “They saw me for how I danced.”

The resurrection of an art form nearly wiped out by the Khmer Rouge has spread from Phnom Penh to Northern California to South Philadelphia. Now a young Cambodian-American has returned to his parents’ homeland to teach other gay men in a genre traditionally danced only by women – and to choreograph new works in the style.

“This summer, the Petronio Residency Center at Crow’s Nest welcomes its first three artists in residence: Nora Chipaumire, Will Rawls and Kathy Westwater. The center, located in the Catskill Mountains, about two and a half hours north of New York City, is idyllic: The 2,500-square-foot studio has radiant floor-heat and a sprung floor, and the 6,500-square-foot house sleeps up to 10 people and has soaring views of the mountains. ‘As a creator, I understand the power of a residency,’ says Stephen Petronio. ‘I want the dancers to feel like they have gone to heaven when they pull up to the gate.'”

“After losing her eyesight due to optic nerve atrophy, [Mana Hashimoto] was determined to keep dancing despite the unexpected obstacle. Since then, she has dedicated her life to merging blindness and dance, and to create artistic works through the use of her remaining senses.”

“‘The art was telling me that things had to change. And they had to change big. Something I created needed to die off. When the company was at its height, when it was at its most successful, I closed it down.’ These puzzling words are spoken by choreographer Trey McIntyre in Gravity Hero, his new documentary, which unpacks the rise and fall of his wildly successful dance company, Trey McIntyre Project.”

I can use dancers like Legos, but I believe that human beings are brilliant. Science tells us now that the human body is electromagnetic energy — it is swirling in nonstop energy with billions of cells that are dying and being born in a second. That is mind-boggling. That is just the body. The other thing is uniqueness and brilliance. I’ve never met a stupid person, but I’ve met people who were blocked.

Three years ago, Lanica Angpak started a social program to provide young women from Philadelphia’s Cambodian-American community with a safe place to deal with issues their traditional families might not handle so well. Now that program has become – at those young women’s request, not out of nudging from their elders – a class where an art form that barely survived the horrors that the late 20th century inflicted on Cambodia is being passed on.

The students, aged 12 to 21, were being transported from the dorms for the company’s summer instructional program to a Sunday evening recreational event when one of their buses rear-ended the other.