Former principals Jennifer Kronenberg and Carlos Guerra, who retired from MCB in the spring, have founded Dimensions Dance Theatre of Miami, which makes its debut this weekend.
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A First? Scottish Ballet Plans An All-Digital Season
The project, titled “Under the Skin,” is “said to be the first time a ballet company has curated a month-long programme of projects made for the format.”
How Do You Make A War Movie Without Dialogue, Using Only Ballet? The BalletBoyz Found A Way
Michael Nunn and William Trevitt, the original BalletBoyz, write about how they and their company adapted their 2015 stage production Young Men into a full-length film.
Smart Business? The Business World Could Learn A LOT From Dance
Turns out that the habits, discipline and creativity of dancers offers excellent lessons for business leaders…
Zadie Smith’s New Novel Explores Dance As Universal Language That Transcends Race And Time
She clings to the possibility that dance is a universal language, one that can transcend race, sex, class, and even time. She is fond of a story of Fred Astaire begging Michael Jackson to teach him to moonwalk, musing that “a great dancer has no time, no generation, he moves eternally through the world, so that any dancer in any age may recognize him.”
Bringing Sports Medicine Into Dance
Training for sports has become scientific, with athletes working with scientists to optimize their performance. Now the idea has come to dance – both to prevent and mitigate injury but also to maximize performance.
How Is Ballet To be Relevant If It Doesn’t Challenge Audiences?
“It is with both bewilderment and sadness that one might look over the National Ballet of Canada’s 2016/17 season and think: What can be considered vital among it? What conversations can these ballets possibly provoke?”
Can The Canadian National Ballet Move The Cultural Conversation As It Turns 65?
Or is it just another ad for sequined pointe shoes with no meaning? “It is with both bewilderment and sadness that one might look over the National Ballet of Canada’s 2016/17 season and think: What can be considered vital among it? What conversations can these ballets possibly provoke?”
There’s A New Documentary About The Australian Ballet’s First Indigenous Dancer
The movie, which was made by the only Indigenous student studying film and TV at his university, gained “unprecedented access” to the Australian Ballet’s rehearsal rooms and performance spaces. People will “get to see the pain, the trouble, the injuries, the competitiveness that goes on behind the making of these productions.”
Charge: The National Ballet Of Canada’s New Ad Campaign Promotes Unhealthy Body Images
“The campaign, which officially launched Thursday, shows dancers from the National Ballet of Canada in photos and online videos dancing and posing in subway stations, on streetcars and in buses. But Jill Andrew, co-founder of the Body Confidence Canada Awards, worries the images send the wrong messages about what healthy, confident humans should look like.”