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Category: dance
How Screen Culture Is Killing Dance (But Maybe Not)
“This new normal wherein everyone carries a small screen with them everywhere starts to have a grim, dystopic cast to it. It’s largely responsible for the loss of casual contact with the unfamiliar and the weird, with that which we did not choose, and—more to the point of my pet project—it doesn’t help bring anyone into contact with dance who wasn’t already interested in it. But then, surprisingly, it does; the screen also emerges as a vehicle that can introduce casual viewers to concert dance.”
London’s Royal Ballet Teams Up With University’s Sports Science Program
“Academics from St. Mary’s University … will provide strength and conditioning, and sports science support to Royal Ballet dancers, as well as design a bespoke programme on performance and injury recovery. … A fully funded academic position will also be available as part of the collaboration.”
The World’s Oldest Haute Couture House? The Paris Opera Ballet’s Costume Shop
“There, in the back of the 19th-century theater, is a warren of workshops, just as there is any storied couture house, each dedicated to a specialty: tailoring, soft construction (known as ‘flou‘), knitwear, accessories, millinery and embroidery, as well as dyeing and painting. And as in the couture house ateliers, seamstresses cut and sew stiff linen mock-ups, called toiles, to perfect the design before cutting it in the final fabric, and produce embellishments, like handmade silk blossoms and gold braiding.”
Film Links Dance To Architecture
“Humans interact with space; shapes define space; humans then interact differently with the space after new objects have entered the picture. In the case of the dancer in the video, her movements are tracked by a machine that then bends an industrial CNC pipe to mimic her. The objects are then placed around the room, thereby affecting her future choreography.”
Boston Ballet Just Smashed Its Previous Box Office Record – Thanks To Some Smart Data-Crunching
“Crediting a host of new techniques that include variable pricing, alternating repertoire, and an enhanced social media presence, Boston Ballet is reporting that last season marked the company’s highest attendance levels in more than a decade and its best ticket revenues in the company’s 53-year history.”
If ‘Sleeping Beauty’ Is A Story Ballet, What’s The Actual Narrative?
“On the face of it, the ballet demonstrates the opposite of suspense. It has a prologue and three acts — but, before the Prologue is over, two rival divinities, the vengeful Carabosse and the beneficent Lilac Fairy, have told us what’s going to happen. So guess what? Then it happens. What’s more, it all happens during Acts I and II. Act III has no narrative at all, just the happy couple’s wedding and their fairy tale guests. The whole thing sounds daft,”
Getting To The San Francisco Ballet From A ‘Paycheck To Paycheck’ Kentucky Family
“One month into the program, he was in class, practicing jumps. He went up for a jump, and the whole room — even people in the room across the hall — heard a sound like a gunshot.”
Telling African American Stories Through Ballet
“‘Where is the ballet about the lives of Martin Luther King or Malcolm X?’ he asks.”
Talking To A Ballerina Just Minutes After She Danced Sleeping Beauty For The First Time
Cassandra Trenary of American Ballet Theater: “I had so much fun. There were moments that didn’t go so well, but I was able to get to a place mentally where they didn’t freak me out. It didn’t ruin anything. I was able to move past it and breathe.”