Category: dance

“I am ageing here [points to head] much quicker than in my body. I’m terrified that in a simple movement my body will give in and I won’t be able to do it. I can do it, and can do it really fast, but it’s psychological.”

Reports all over European media last week said that Ek, 70, would both stop creating new dances and withdraw rights to perform all his previous works. He says that the hiatus is only temporary.

“Having joined Lincoln Center in 2007, Kara Medoff Barnett is currently the managing director for Lincoln Center International, which provides consulting services in planning, building and running performing-arts centers around the world. It also offers arts-management training.”

Exactly two months after the company’s headquarters and school finished a major renovation, eight feet of water “tore through the building, smashing windows, destroying the newly installed floors, technology, music books, costumes, photos – everything.”

Pamela Tatge has served as the director of the Center for the Arts at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., overseeing programming and artistic initiatives for dance, music, theater, and the visual arts.

Paul Kelly, the former vice president of corporate affairs at Asda, diverted £180,000 from the chain’s charitable foundation – money intended for flood victims – to dancer David Murley’s troupe.

“There are a few drawbacks. Ballroom dancing is still a very individual couple sport, and your progression isn’t tied to your team. In that sense, I don’t think there’s as much of a collective sense of doing well or not, compared to, say, football or basketball.”

“‘My dream is to have children all over Australia enjoy the beautiful art of classical ballet and have access to quality tuition,’ Ms Woodberry said. The classes are filmed at her Melbourne studio once a month and then sent via email to students across the country.”

“Her appointment comes with the retirement in April of the current artistic director, Franco De Vita, who became the school’s principal in 2005 before taking on the directorship in 2013.” Harvey danced with ABT for 20 years before retiring in 1996.

“For its 30th Anniversary Season, Miami City Ballet asked members from every rank of its international, 51-member company to tell their stories; what inspired them to dance, and what motivated them to devote their lives to this incredible physical and artistic discipline.” (video)