Category: dance

“After the final show on Sunday night I slept 12 hours and took Monday off. But Tuesday was time to think again about being in the studio. There is absolutely nothing glamorous about starting over again. One foot down, next foot up. Find two ideas to rub together. No judgment, just get it down. But this small daily practice is, for me, sanity, and to begin constructing a new phrase of movement is my connection to the world.”

“I don’t have [the award] yet, so I’m still poor. The first year, I’ll pay off as much debt as possible, and put the rest aside for taxes – it’s not a fun answer. Then, of course, I should probably have a savings account or IRA. I’m 36.”

“In a startling move Tuesday, four days before the Joffrey Ballet opens its final run of Robert Joffrey’s Nutcracker on Friday, the Gerald Arpino and Robert Joffrey Foundation announced that it had filed a demand for arbitration to compel the Joffrey Ballet to pay seven years’ worth of allegedly unpaid compensation, an amount it claims is about $373,000.”

“For many children, The Nutcracker will be their first experience of live theater. If you don’t want your child to talk during a performance, do what I do: Pour a handful of M&M’s – or any pellet-size candy – into his or her lap. (Skirts are ideally shaped; for pants, add a napkin.) … To optimize the viewing experience, here is a guide – in order of calendar appearance and including some options for older audiences – to help you decide on the right Nutcracker.”

“It was called Dance Your PhD, and the premise was exactly that; explain your research through the medium of dance.”

“Balletomanes practically had to rub their eyes over the news this past year that ABT was permanently moving its annual Ratmansky Nutcracker from the Brooklyn Academy of Music to the Segerstrom Center for the Arts and concurrently starting a West Coast branch of its education division, also to be housed at the Costa Mesa arts center.”

He played the moose. Wait, the … moose? “This is a Canadianized version of the Nutcracker, and that’s why there is a moose in it.”

“Today it’s one of America’s leading companies: together with San Francisco, Pacific Northwest and Boston—Houston, some would say—it ranks in artistic success and national recognition right behind The Big Two: New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theatre. In other words, it’s a miracle.”

“‘For the girls here, ballet is a life experience,’ said 20-year-old instructor Tuany Nascimento, who started the ‘Na Ponta dos Pés’ project in 2012. … ‘Every plié and jump they make is a step closer to entering college, or getting their dream job.'”

A Portland Public Schools official says dancing has made some students feel unsafe.