“Of course none of this adjusts for the impact of price or capacity or run length, but 10,000 tickets sure does suggest that dance has a ready-made audience in the city, that dance isn’t just a fringe interest, and that if you advertise well and offer affordable, high-quality material, the demand for dance is there.”
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Michael Clark Has Become Part Of The Dance Establishment (Imagine That!)
“Despite his reputation as a punkish provocateur and iconoclast as well as his own self-destructive behaviour, the Michael Clark Dance Company is now 32 years old, an achievement that, one senses, surprises its founder as much as the rest of us.” And he himself has a CBE.
When Sergei Polunin’s Mother Finally Saw Her Son Dance
Galina Polunina, who gave up her home and marriage for the sake of her son’s dance training, and who pushed him hard, had watched him become one of the world’s great young dancers only via video. Julie Kavanagh, author of Nureyev: The Life, who has known Sergei Polunin since he was a prodigious 13-year-old, brought her to London to see him perform in person.
It’s World Ballet Day, With 20 Straight Hours Of Real-Time Video On Facebook Live
On Tuesday, October 4, “the Australian Ballet, The Bolshoi Ballet of Russia, The Royal Ballet, The National Ballet of Canada and The San Francisco Ballet will broadcast for four hours each.”
Bhangra On The Beach – Livening Up The Gray North Atlantic And Lighting Up The Web
Hasmeet Singh of the Halifax-based group Maritime Bhangra: “It was one of those things we usually do, right? We just go anywhere and start dancing and make a small clip out of it and just post it. … We were like, ‘Okay, this will get like 1,000 or 1,500 views.’ And it looks like it’s going to go 300,000 in a few moments.”
The New Face, And Brains, Of The Washington Ballet
“As she introduced each segment of the nearly three-hour salute to the company’s history, Kent led the audience members elegantly — and cannily — to an undeniable conclusion: She stood before them as the visionary queen of the Washington Ballet’s future.”
The New York Public Library Just Became A Vital Source Of Hip Hop Dance Knowledge
“The library is making a statement. … Ballet, modern dance, tap — the library is placing hip-hop culture on the same pedestals as other established dance movements.”
Women Anchor – And Fly – City Ballet This Season
“The company, almost halfway through its four-week fall season, is being characteristically bounteous with repertory by its founder-choreographer, George Balanchine, which in turn is bounteous with ballerina roles.”
Why Akram Khan Made ‘Giselle’ Into A Ballet About Migrant Workers
“As [dramaturg Ruth Little] and Khan explored their own ideas about Giselle, they realised that the ballet’s apparently formulaic simplicity was actually its strength … Most fruitful to them was exploring the underlying issue of power – the gulf of money and class that separates the aristocrats from the peasants in the ballet, and that dooms Albrecht and Giselle’s love to tragedy.”
Carlos Acosta On Finding Artists Who Will Surprise Us
“Hire anybody that shows skill and talent and give people the chance to surprise us. They would never have thought I would end up one day playing Romeo in the Royal Ballet, so the same thing has to be done for others – give them the chance to see what Romeo lies inside of them.”