Category: dance

“You can see the dancers, watch them work their butts off, and have a good time. It’s a bonding experience for the dancers, too, because they get together and have a beer and hang out.”

“When you’re a young boy wanting to study ballet you’re already a kind of rebel, someone who is thinking outside the box, so you’re more likely to end up making work or running a company. Girls are less likely to be prized for being a maverick, they’re more likely to be encouraged to look and dance like everyone else – which means that a lot of the creative women will end up in contemporary dance.”

“Vail Dance Festival: ReMix NYC, with shows November 3–6, will feature many Vail regulars, including American Ballet Theatre’s Isabella Boylston (the festival’s artist in residence for 2016) and Herman Cornejo; New York City Ballet’s Sara Mearns, Robert Fairchild and Tiler Peck; [and] tapper extraordinaire Michelle Dorrance.”

“In the rehearsal room, ominous props clutter the floor’s perimeter: an alarmingly incomplete cadaver lies on a table; Georgian-era surgical equipment is strewn here and there; the odd body part sits pickled in a jar.”

Dane Hurst, a star of the British contemporary company Rambert, bought the sprung dance floor from the company’s old studio when it moved, shipped it home to Port Elizabeth, and asked an architect to design a dance studio made out of shipping containers – where he’ll be teaching other young people from his home township professional-level dance skills.

Edward Watson of the Royal Ballet in London: “There’s one particular tw** who still writes, ‘Oh, he’s still there with his horrible ginger hair and his horrible pale skin’ and you just think, is it really relevant to talk about someone’s skin and hair in a review? I find that kind of ridiculous.”

“At the close of today’s press conference at La Scala to announce Mauro Bigonzetti’s 2016-2017 season, fifty or so company dancers arrived to protest at the repertoire proposed. … [They complain] that the season has ‘too little classical [ballet] and wasn’t in line with company’s tradition.'”

“When performing or dancing to music, entrainment allows the timing of upcoming beats to be predicted. A recent study on individual differences in rhythmic skill identified relationships between the strength of neural entrainment and the capacity to synchronise movements with musical rhythms.”

“Hoping to appear on The Ellen Show and music videos, the heavy-set performer says he is trying to ‘change the mind and shape of dancers’. The photographs regularly receive hundreds of likes and he has amassed thousands of followers.”

And the Vancouver-based company isn’t doing it only by commissioning and performing work created by women (which it does). For this company, and for the female choreographers working with it, the issue isn’t even worth discussing.