“Three years ago, the St. Paul Ballet moved to a new studio next door to the Element Boxing Gym. The water fountain was in the gym, so dancers went there to fill their water bottles.” Now the dancers and boxers are training each other.
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What Makes A Ballet Really Canadian? A Few Lumberjacks
Yes, Will Tuckett has included some lumberjacks – and beavers and a Mountie, too – in his new Pinocchio for the National Ballet of Canada. Here’s a video peek at rehearsal for the piece, which premieres next month.
Paloma Herrera Named Director Of Buenos Aires’s Ballet Company
Nearly two years after the ABT star retired from the stage and returned home to the Argentine capital, she’s been named director of the ballet company at the Teatro Colón.
Leonard Cohen Estate Sells Rights To All Songs To Montreal Dance Company – Other Dance Companies Stuck
“Last Tuesday, Ballets Jazz de Montreal said its worldwide exclusive dance and circus art rights include Cohen’s name and image as well as his visual, musical, and literary works. The company plans to debut a Cohen-inspired show in December that “will be performed through a series of acts, evoking the cycles of life, the colours of the seasons and nature’s true elements,” according to a news release.”
When Leonid Massine And Sergei Prokofiev Tried To Get Their Ballet Past Soviet Apparatchiks And Into The Bolshoi
Prokofiev in particular had hoped to turn Le Pas d’acier (The Dance of Steel) from the quasi-folkloric confection Diaghilev had made of it into a real socialist work of art. Didn’t work. It wasn’t pretty. In an excerpt from Bolshoi Confidential, Simon Morrison tells the head-shaking story.
Dance For Seniors Is Catching On All Over Britain
“Across the UK, enthusiastic, determined, focused individuals are fighting hard for a new kind of dance provision – one that doesn’t simply enable access for older dancers, but aims to challenge, reinterpret and promote the ageing body.”
Sergei Polunin Says He Was Tricked, And That Ballet Dancers Need Agents
The take of the ‘bad boy of ballet,’ who left the Royal Ballet in a surprise move in 2012: “The company sort of owns you. I thought about my future. In 10 years’ time, I would be in the same position as when I started – the best dancer in the world, but still sharing a flat. You’re an adult, but you live like a kid.”
OK For Real, Does Ryan Gosling Or Emma Stone Dance Better In ‘La La Land’?
According to the choreographer, “They were a funny little complement. Neither is a perfect dancer; they weren’t supposed to be. I liked the way they took on the challenge.”
This Ballet School In Washington Has A 75-Year Commitment To Black Dancers [VIDEO]
The woman who took over the schools when the founders passed away says that dance isn’t just dance, but a metaphor for life. “I like to instill in the children to work with a certain kind of integrity even if you are uncomfortable.”
The Painful Truth About Isamu Noguchi’s Design For Martha Graham
Sarah Kaufman is not kidding about the “painful” part: as former and current Graham Dance Company performers tell her, dancing on those things hurts.