Category: dance

“He has decided to spend more time in the studio, making new ballets and working with dancers, he said. ‘Over the last few years, many of my works have been performed outside the Washington Ballet, and I’ve been turning down projects,’ he said.”

Sara Baras: “It takes courage, but flamenco artists often have longer careers than other kinds of dancers. They learn to adapt themselves to a type of exercise that develops extra agility and vigour. Older flamenco dancers can perform with a strength that you will not find in other dance genres.”

Aurélie Dupont has spent her entire education and career at the company and its school; she retired from the stage last summer at the top rank of étoile.

Adolphe Binder, currently artistic director of the dance company at the Gothenburg Opera in Sweden, “will be the fourth person to run the Tanztheater Wuppertal since Bausch’s sudden death in 2009. “Unlike Dominique Mercy and Robert Sturm, who ran the company just after Ms. Bausch’s death, and Lutz Förster, who succeeded them in 2013, Ms. Binder has no direct relationship with Wuppertal.”

“‘I want to regain my freedom and I want to create,’ he said. ‘I’ve been honored to be given the opportunity to work at the Opera and with the dancers, but this job, as it exists today, is not something I want.’ Mr. Millepied declined to speak about other factors that might have contributed to his decision, but his discontent with various aspects of his role has been well documented over the past few months.”

“Benjamin Millepied — who is married to Hollywood star Natalie Portman — took over France’s most prestigious ballet company little more than a year ago, bringing a dash of glamour to one of the capital’s most venerable institutions. He had been due to unveil his new season next week, but it was clear that all was not well after he lambasted the ballet’s hierarchical structure in a French television documentary.”

Eight principal dancers – including Daria Klimentová, Steven McRae, Cynthia Harvey, James Whiteside, and Vito Mazzeo – from some of the world’s top companies talk about coping with the damage their profession inflicts on their bodies.

“Colin Connor, a former soloist with Limón Dance Company who went on to a career in choreography and education, … [and will be] the first male director since Limón himself, is to take the helm of the 70-year-old modern dance company on July 1, succeeding Carla Maxwell, who has held the position since 1978.”

“In Uropa – An asylum-seekers’ ballet, six migrants tell their stories with the help of dancers from the Royal Danish Ballet, hoping to change perceptions of refugees in a country that has recently rolled out some of Europe’s strictest asylum rules.” But some of those six could yet see their own applications rejected – the original lineup numbered ten.