“The email war of words between the two led to each of them making a complaint against the other to the police. A Gloucestershire Police spokesman confirmed they had received the complaints.”
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Ballet Hispánico Suffers Major Flood Damage – For Second Time
Following a water main break, “water began pouring into the ballet studio at 167 W. 89th St. around 9:30 p.m. Monday and quickly filled the basement with six feet of water, drenching the company’s stock of house-made costumes and props as well as the dance floors on the first floor.”
Chinese Communist Party Turns ‘Core Socialist Values’ Into Songs For Nation’s Dancing Grannies
“The 12 ‘core socialist values’ are memorized by schoolchildren, featured in college entrance exams, printed on stamps and lanterns, and splashed on walls across China. Now they have made their way into 20 song-and-dance routines that the authorities in Hunan Province plan to promote to the country’s millions of ‘square dancers,’ the mostly middle-aged and older women who gather in public squares to perform in unison.”
Behold The First-Ever Virtual Reality Ballet
“Night Fall, a dreamy ballet inspired by the white acts of Swan Lake and La Bayadère, was choreographed specifically for virtual reality by Peter Leung” on the Dutch National Ballet. “Viewers are dropped right in the center of the action, with the dancers and a lone musician swirling around them.”
An Australian Premiere, And Arts Minister (!), Forgets Her City’s Most Famous Dance Troupe
“It’s difficult to see how anyone can have confidence in an arts minister who can’t even remember our own Queensland-based contemporary arts companies.”
Learning To Dance Again After A Near-Death Experience
“Two qualities that were essential to Rodríguez as an artist proved crucial as he fought his way back. One was the discipline from a lifetime of dance training, which helped him persist with tedious physical and speech therapy despite frequent frustration and physical pain. The other was his drive to express himself, which he poured out in painting when he could not dance.”
What Happens When You Mash Hip Hop And Ballet Together?
“Conceived by Homer Hans Bryant, the artistic director and founder of the Chicago Multi-Cultural Dance Center, hiplet (pronounce it “hip-lay” to rhyme with ballet) showcases dancers on pointe as they twist and dip to the floor in a loose translation of hip-hop movement.”
How Sergei Polunin, Ballet’s Gifted Train Wreck, Turned Himself Around
“I was sort of sabotaging myself,” says the now-26-year-old – who became a Royal Ballet principal at 19 and got compared to Nureyev and even Nijinsky – of the turbulent period that saw him storm away from Covent Garden and later from Moscow’s Stanislavsky Theater, which took him in after he burned his London bridges. Then one YouTube video gradually changed everything.
Dance Is The Perfect Art Form For Export, Which Is A Business Opportunity For Companies
Anthony Missen, director of Britain’s Company Chameleon: “From [our company’s] perspective, dance as an international export works because our dance pieces are scalable. Working both indoors in theatres and studio venues, and outdoors at events and festivals, our work can be presented in small squares, big plazas and huge theatres in sprawling cities, busy towns and relatively isolated rural communities. This flexibility means we can perform in a huge number of contexts and within a wide range of budgets.”
The Dancer Who Came Back From A Shattered Leg To Become A Company Principal
“Dragged under the wheel of a London bus, ballet dancer Joseph Skelton was told he might never walk again without a limp.”