Category: dance

“When it came to the show, we were encouraged to be who we were. But in ballet class, it was a different story. We weren’t allowed to express or present ourselves as we wanted; we couldn’t wear our hair in buns. Even what you wore to the airport was monitored.” Chase Johnsey talks with journalist Candice Thompson about why he left Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo after 14 years.

“Since retiring from the Royal Ballet and founding Acosta Danza in 2015 with the aim of fusing classic and contemporary ballet, the 44-year-old artist has brought the work of many renowned foreign choreographers like American Justin Peck to his Caribbean island. Some have created new pieces for the company.”

“My entire career, I stood out too much to fit in. And that whole time, I was the one who couldn’t accept that short, fat and bald could be the next best thing on the block. I had to change how I saw myself. All of my accomplishments were not in spite of my short, fat, bald body, but because of it.”

Kurt Froman trained Mila Kunis and Natalie Portman for Black Swan, and more recently he’s been training Jennifer Lawrence for the upcoming Red Sparrow. “One of the biggest things, I think, for a non-dancer is just understanding dancers hold their arms from their backs. … When I was working with Jen, as well as with Mila and Natalie, getting them used to holding their backs that way and understanding that their arms are an extension of their backs, that’s the first thing that I need to instill in them and I have to remind them of that the entire time.”

Well, Netflix might have exaggerated a little bit in the second season of The Crown. “Well, that’s nice. … It’s a lot of bulls**t.”

By all outward appearances, she had a successful start, quickly putting her own stamp on the company. End-of-the-year wrap-ups in The Dallas Morning News and other local performing arts publications cited Bridget Moore’s contributions to the local dance scene as among the most important in 2017.

The negotiations have been tense, and the vote came as the ABT dancers and stage managers have been without a contract since July of last year. “Noting the long hours and hard work put in by the members of the company, [a union representative] said in a statement that they ‘all deserve to be able to retire from dance with dignity and respect and payments better reflecting what they have given to the company throughout the years.'”

Andy Blankenbuehler, Sergio Trujillo, Josh Rhodes, and Christopher Gattelli all performed in the 1999 show assembled from the late Bob Fosse’s choreography. “[They] didn’t appropriate the distinctive Fosse style. But it’s more than happenstance that the show produced this bumper crop of choreographers. Ask them why, and they make the school analogy.”

It sure seems that way, various teachers and judges tell Sarah Nagle. Why? Basically, the law of supply and demand.