Category: dance

“Ideally, though, you would have both a property and a pension. Currently I’m renting but I would love to get on to the housing ladder in the future. I live in Clerkenwell, Central London, and I would buy a property there, but not at the moment. I’m incredibly busy with the ballet – I haven’t had a chance to go house-hunting.”

“The ubiquity of Romeo and Juliet as a ballet is not shared by any other Shakespeare play. In fact, although the strength of his stories and characters seem to make the playwright a good choice for dance, in practice those few ballets based on his other plays have often foundered on dance’s difficulty with translating thought into action; narrative alone is not enough to sweep the audience along in these plays.”

“Lam Chun-wing, a 19-year-old from a working-class Hong Kong suburb, is an unlikely addition to the world’s oldest ballet company – a state institution steeped in French tradition.”

This week’s viral dance video features two members of the daredevil company Bandaloop making their moves in midair outside the windows of a Shanghai office tower.

“My entire career has been working and striving and proving, and it’s just exhausting. It’s so much more than just the work, which is exhausting in itself. I want to just enjoy this first season as a principal dancer and really just focus on that… So now I feel like I can actually sit back and kind of settle in to this position. That’s exciting.”

“The 1877 original was staged in Moscow, and was by no means the fiasco that used to be supposed. After its Moscow premiere, it was revived there for six of the first seven years of its existence. Recent discoveries … at the old Bolshoi building there, give us a new wealth of detail about it.” For example, the “Black Swan pas de deux” was not intended for either Odette or Odile, and the storm scene is supposed to have a real whirlpool.

“O.K., you want the fountain of youth, here it is: Travel with a modern dance troupe.”

There’s a new executive director after nearly two years without one, artistic director Michael Pink has extended his contract for another five years, and donors have given a $300,000 challenge grant to launch a fund dedicated to new work.

Jean Lenihan joins a group of ordinary folks learning and dancing in Tharp’s The One Hundreds in Los Angeles.