David Binet, Board Chair of The National Ballet of Canada, today reported that company revenues were $30,851,000 with expenses at $30,806,000 resulting in an operating surplus for the year of $45,000 and accumulated surplus of $65,000.
Category: dance
Big Changes At Once-Floundering, Now Thriving Oregon Ballet Theatre
Over the next two years, the company will be moving to new studios, selling its old building to retire all of its $1.8 million debt, expansion into the suburbs, and a summer outdoor series dedicated entirely to women choreographers – and, of course, the ballet-and-beer initiative.
Now *Here’s* How A Cop Should Deal With A Defiant Teen – Dance With Her
Perhaps the (ex-)policeman in Columbia, SC who threw a high school student across the classroom should have followed the example of this officer in D.C. (video)
Oldest College Dance Program In US May Stop Offering An Undergrad Major
“While the dance minor and graduate program will remain, the school has proposed dissolving the dance major under budget constraints. … Founded in 1938, Mills’ dance department is the oldest, continuously-run program in the country today. With that comes a list of distinguished alumni, including Molissa Fenley and Trisha Brown.”
Picasso’s Last Surviving Lover/Muse And Marcelo Gomes Make A Ballet Together
Françoise Gilot, an accomplished painter herself and still active at age 93, has created the backdrop for Gomes’s new AfterEffect, the first work he has choreographed for his colleagues at American Ballet Theater.
Alicia Alonso Remembers
The founding mother of ballet in Cuba recalls her early training and career, convincing Fidel Castro to fund a professional national company, and convincing skeptical parents that ballet could be a career. (video)
Bolshoi Ballet Gets New Director, Replacing Acid Atttack Victim Sergei Filin
“Bolshoi Theatre general director Vladimir Urin appointed Makhar Vaziev, who has led La Scala Ballet for seven years and, before that, spent 13 years at the helm of the Mariinsky Ballet. Many Russians are relieved that the choice is a former dancer with leadership experience and good taste. But questions surround this appointment.”
The Thorny Situation That The Bolshoi Ballet’s New Director Is Dancing Into
It’s by no means only the drama surrounding the acid attack on outgoing director Sergei Filin, as bad as that was. Ismene Brown explains.
Twyla Tharp Deals With The Dance Masses In Her Post-Performance Q&As
“There is of course one place where language is not so helpful and that is if you are actually interested in what a dance is.”
The Woman Who Started A Dance Company For People Who Have Full-Time, Non-Dance Jobs
“I spent one whole year formulating the business, the brand, and what I was actually trying to get at because I didn’t want to rush ahead into another show. I wanted to create a dance company for young professionals who were just like me. The target audience I was reaching was high-caliber dancers who wanted to continue dancing and choreographing into their adult lives.”