“Though the Pennsylvania Ballet has long been considered a Balanchine company, it will perform fewer of his works than usual. [Artistic director Ángel] Corella has maintained that he is not a choreographer, but he is creating three new [story] ballets.”
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Finding: Dancers Can Deliver Effective Healthcare
“Dance to Health is capable of generating better outcomes and being associated with lower overall costs of managing falls compared to the primary prevention programme or no intervention,” the report finds. It describes the classes as faithful to their healthcare objectives and an “enjoyable challenge” for the dancers.
I Let Ohad Naharin Convince Me To Run Onstage In A Long Blue Dress For 65 Minutes Nonstop
Bobbi Jene Smith of Batsheva spends the entire length of Naharin’s Last Work trotting away on a treadmill upstage. Here she tells Jen Peters how she manages to do it.
A Ballet School In Conservative Upper Egypt
A dancer from the Cairo Opera Ballet travels 150 miles south every weekend to teach students (some boys as well as girls) who come from up to an hour away to the Alwanat Centre in Minya.
Why Does Dance Movement Have To Be Gender-Specific? (It Doesn’t)
“We can all do all the parts. We don’t do lifts. The traditional duet always has the woman reliant on the man, him leading and her going along with it. Even with Merce, partnering was traditionally gendered. Sexual but “pure”. I’m sick of it. I’m trying to be human, to make something that is ourselves. It’s about stripping away mannerisms and affect. So you just see the person, moving.”
The Ballerina From Ballerat
Brooke Lockett was 15 when the Australian Ballet in Melbourne called her up. “It was really intense. And some of my teachers back home were skeptical. Thing is, you only get one shot at being a great ballet dancer and it needs a young body. … That window is incredibly small.”
Sarasota Ballet Dancers Vote To Unionize
The 26-year-old company’s dancers voted to join the American Guild of Musical Artists. Negotiations for a contract begin in two weeks.
How Julie Kent Is Transforming Washington Ballet
“One expects change when a new artistic director takes over, as Kent did half a year ago. But in Thursday’s opening-night performance at the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater, marking the start of the company’s spring season, it was clear that Kent’s touch is a subtle and sensitive one, apparent in such artistic intangibles as musicality, an apt quality of airiness and an overall attention to detail.”
ABT’s Isabella Boylston Starts A Ballet Festival For Her Idaho Hometown
“Ballet Sun Valley, a three-day event with performances Aug. 22 and 24 at the Sun Valley Pavilion, … will feature dancers from major companies, including Ballet Theater, New York City Ballet, the Royal Ballet, San Francisco Ballet and the Mariinsky Ballet.”
The Out-Of-The-Way City In Northern England That Churns Out Ballet Stars
The Skelton Hooper School of Dance in Hull has produced several generations of leading dancers – not least Kevin O’Hare, now director of the Royal Ballet, who’s taking the company to the city for the first time in 30 years.