“From a distance, the glyph-like pedestals of Night Journey appear like granite, but up close you can feel their hollow wooden bodies. The bony edges of the bed are sinewy and rugged.”
Category: dance
Ex-Met Opera Chief Joe Volpe Steps In For Fired Ballet Manager
“Joseph Volpe, who spent 42 years with New York’s Metropolitan Opera – 16 of them as general manager – was named the interim managing director of the Sarasota Ballet Thursday, replacing Mary Anne Servian, who was dismissed from her position of five years earlier this week.”
Zero Gravity – Choreography’s Final Frontier?
“This time, it’s not a modern dance company that’s pushing the limits of choreography. It’s the quirky pop band OK Go … For their newest video, ‘Upside Down & Inside Out,’ the band performs an intricately-choreographed dance, using the fact that they are literally weightless to try unthinkable physical feats.” (includes video)
John Neumeier On Reviving His Ballets From Decades Ago
“As long as I’m alive, I constantly check my ballets: Do I still feel a part of myself in this work? And does it move me?”
Sarasota Ballet Fires Its Managing Director
“On Tuesday the Sarasota Ballet board voted to ‘release’ [Mary Ann] Servian, who reported to Webb, after growing conflict between the two over fiscal, territorial and staff relations issues.” Servian is a former mayor of Sarasota.
Eiko’s First Dance Project Without Koma Is Transforming Her Career
“Two years ago, after Koma injured his ankle, Eiko, the other half of the husband-and-wife dance duo – treasured for their stark, startlingly slow excavations of stillness and shape while time gradually passes – struck out on her own. The pair are likely to perform together in the future, but for now, Eiko is consumed with a solo project that has transformed her career.”
How My Ballet Career Survived Five Knee Operations In One Year
Marijn Rademaker, longtime principal of the Stuttgart Ballet, now at Dutch National Ballet, tells the long and frustrating story of his meniscus injury – including what that nurse should not have said to him on the operating table.
Citing Misty Copeland As An Inspiration, Muslim Teen Hopes To Be First Hijab-Wearing Pro Ballerina
With her crowdfunding effort going viral, “Stephanie Kurlow, from Australia, will have her school fees paid for her by Björn Borg, a company founded by the world-famous Swedish tennis player, after the brand was ‘really moved’ by the teen’s story.”
Want To See Mind-Bending Ballet Poses? These Russian Dancers Have You Covered
The Bolshoi and several other ballet Instagram accounts give some insight into the world of Russian ballet (gnarly feet, fashion shoots and more included).
Misty Copeland And NYC Dance Project Recreate Degas’s Ballet Scenes
“‘It was interesting to be on a shoot and to not have the freedom to just create like I normally do with my body,’ she says. ‘Trying to re-create what Degas did was really difficult. It was amazing just to notice all of the small details but also how he still allows you to feel like there’s movement.'”