“The idea is for the artist in residence to help develop unique content for the ballet, serve as a role model for Orlando Ballet School students and through master classes and other events serve as an ambassador to the community. Dancer Arcadian Broad is the first person given the open-ended position, which will be reserved for those who demonstrate talent in multiple areas and can leave a lasting impact on the company and the wider dance community.”
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A ‘Marathon Of Pain’: What It’s Like For The Professional Dancers Doing ‘Nutcracker’ For A Month, Year After Year
Sarah L. Kaufman: “For many families, The Nutcracker is a beloved holiday ritual, a respite from the season’s stresses, an oasis of beauty, innocence and poetry. For the dancers, it is a marathon of pain, physical and existential. It is a minefield of injuries, illnesses and choking hazards. It can be crushingly boring. It also involves incontinent children.”
Dance Magazine’s 25 To Watch For 2018
From Annie Arnoult to Leal Zielińska, here are the up-and-coming dancers, choreographers, and companies to keep an eye on in the coming year.
‘Why Not Now?’ – Four Veteran Dancers On Working Into Their 70s
Gia Kourlas talks with Gus Solomons Jr. (79), Douglas Dunn (75), Eiko Otake (65), and Brenda Bufalino (80) about the losses and gains to their art as they age and their motivation to keep going. As Solomons says, “The reason I’ve been able to dance for so long is absolute willpower.” (includes video)
How American Ballet Companies Keep Reinventing ‘Nutcracker’
“From the San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band’s Dance-Along Nutcracker to the New Bedford Ballet’s historical whaling production, A New England Nutcracker” – not to mention a hip-hop version and a “MeshugaNutcracker” for Chanukah – “the message of ‘anyone can watch’ is echoed throughout performances that interpret Tchaikovsky’s score in new – and distinctly American – ways.”
What’s Robbie Fairchild Doing Post-City Ballet? Becoming A Monster
The 30-year-old dance star talks to Sylviane Gold about his latest project, playing the Monster in a new adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
What’s Going On With The Royal New Zealand Ballet?
Well, for one thing, some investigations – and a call for the government to dissolve and recreate the board. Here’s a tidbit: “On Friday, the RNZB announced former deputy State Services Commissioner Doug Craig would lead an independent inquiry into allegations of workplace bullying and reports that the Ballet favours overseas dancers over New Zealanders.”
So, Was The Bolshoi’s Nureyev Ballet Worth All The Brouhaha?
“By portraying gay love as beautiful and dignified, the ballet transcended its buffoonery and did justice to its subject.” Joy Neumeyer gives an eyewitness report of the long line to buy the (few) tickets available to the public, the crowds in the theater, and the actual production.
Investigation Into Royal New Zealand Ballet After Dancer Exodus
The board of directors of the national company has commissioned an independent inquiry following the departure of more than half of of RNZB’s dancers since the arrival in June of new artistic director Patricia Barker. (Another third of the dancers had left under the previous artistic director.)
The Dancer Who Made Art Nouveau Into A Performing Art
“The [Paris] Exposition Universelle of 1900 marked the height of Art Nouveau and its flowing, feminine subjects inspired by nature. [Loïe] Fuller herself personified the movement, with performances that incorporated swirling yards of silk attached to bamboo wands sewn into her sleeves.”