Category: dance

“Where a classical dancer would have, in the past, said ‘no that’s not for me, I don’t want to push myself into that field or roll around on the floor in mud’, with all those things you have to be much more open.”

“A project called Mesa Musical Shadows, by Montréal’s Daily Tous Les Jours studio, is doing just that. It’s a public installation that turns a chunk of pavement in Arizona’s Mesa Arts Center into a giant game of Dance Dance Revolution that you play by moving your shadow.”

“Wearing shorts and T-shirts along with their dancing slippers, members of the army’s 25th Division are taught each week by a ballerina from the Korean National Ballet under a programme that began last year … intended to ease the stress of guarding the world’s most heavily fortified border.”

“The Quebec City-born artist has been involved with the Biennale since it first launched a dance section in 1999, participating in the initial edition and invited back several times over the years.”

“I cling to the slim hope that some human labor will always be necessary. Somebody will have to program the prima ballerina to dance. But choreography will be taught at schools like MIT. Humans will still be needed to build and repair the prima ballerina robots, unless other robots are built for the purpose of building and repairing prima ballerina robots. But even then, humans will still be needed to build and repair the robots that are built for the purpose of building and repairing prima ballerina robots, unless other robots are built for the purpose of building and repairing those robots. But even then, humans will still be needed to build and repair those robots. Right?”

“Watching Copeland dance ‘Firebird’ at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, we saw a wonderful ballerina come to terms with a not-so-wonderful role. To begin with, you, Mr. Ratmansky, assigned to other American Ballet Theatre dancers much of the music that Igor Stravinsky composed for her character.”

“What’s interesting about this piece more than anything for me has been — obviously, I’m not at the beginning of my career, I’m at the end of it. I’m looking at this more as an actor discovering something. It’s an amalgamation of 20 years of dancing.”

Says the ballet’s new artistic director, Makhar Vaziev, “We think we are not just any dance company but a state institution that represents Russia.” Adds Bolshoi general director Vladimir Urin, “We often refuse offers to go and dance abroad. We want to dance in Russia, that is our objective, that is what the Russian state pays us to do.”

He’s founded a company, Acosta Danza, with hald of the dancers trained in classical ballet and the other half in modern dance. (He wants to add in hip-hop and flamenco.) He’s working to keep cultural exchange and resources flowing between the island and Britain. And his biggest dream is to revive the legendary National Art Schools of Havana, built during the ’60s but then abandoned.