Category: dance

“The Philippines is rightly proud of the newest Pinoy star in the global pantheon. ‘I’ve gotten so many beautiful comments on social media,’ says Stella [Abrera], ‘and shout-outs from young Filipino dancers, all saying #PinoyPower.'”

Kurt Jooss “made scores of ballets, founded schools and companies, and was instrumental in developing a whole German style, Ausdruckstanz, which is still with us, above all in the work of the late Pina Bausch.”

“[Merce] was by all accounts at his most personal and driven in a series of three extraordinary 1950s solos he made to music by Christian Wolff.” One of those solo’s Changeling, was rediscovered in a 1958 German TV film. Now visitors to Boston can see both the film itself and a live performance of the reconstructed dance by Silas Riener.

In 1997, “he made his first foray into installation work at the Roundhouse in London with White Bouncy Castle, which had spectators bounding and falling in a giant rubber courtyard. He described it at the time as ‘a choreography that is incapable of being false.’ It’s a description that fits a subsequent substantial body of work that generates movement in spectators – by navigating between the swinging pendulums …, clambering through 200 gymnastic rings without touching the floor …, [or] moving extremely slowly in order not to disturb a whirlpool of fog.”

“Mr. Morris’s sharp, unstinting observations have the bite of reality TV, like a melding of ‘Dance Moms’ and ‘Shark Tank,’ with dancers presenting ideas in movement, only to be lauded or crushed.”

“The untitled project, which has been set up at Fox through 20th Century Fox TV, follows a young, hip and diverse group of aspiring dancers as they fiercely compete for places in a top ballet company.”

“‘I needed to look at the body as body, movement as movement,’ he says, ‘not as defined by someone else’s aesthetic.’ The piece was developed from everyday actions: there are no formal hand gestures, no folk steps.”

“Gender identity in ballet – men depicted as strong, women as demure – that’s one of the things that disconnects ballet the most from the present world. I’m trying to find a way to express contemporary relationships that look like the relationships that we, as people, have today, while not abandoning that technique.”

Ballet becomes melded with pop culture as Jimmy Kimmel wears a pink tutu to dance with Copeland.

Choreographer Dan Canham says that his Of Riders and Running Horses is “about reclaiming the city space in a gentle way. In the four UK cities the show has been performed in so far, he said they always ended with a spontaneous dance party erupting as the audience joined in.”