Category: dance

Okay, in this case they’re using hoverboards (basically Segways without the handlebars), but choreographer David Moore and his five dancers “manage to tackle a solid hip-hop routine by simply shifting their weight around.” (video)

London’s Rambert dance company brings together a panel, chaired by The Guardian‘s Judith Mackrell, “that will focus less on the reasons why women are falling behind than on what can be done to support them.” The discussion will be live-streamed online on Wed., Oct. 14 (4:30 to 6:00 pm UK time), and questions may be submitted beforehand.

“Dancing wasn’t the primary problem; Ms. Somogyi, 38, wasn’t sure if she would be able to walk normally again.”

“I think it needed to happen. Dancers in the past have talked about it, but they haven’t had the platform that I’ve had, which makes a huge difference. I think that it’s forcing the conversation to be had, and it’s a part of me, and it’s a part of my experience in my life and my struggles. … Just because I’m a principal dancer now doesn’t mean that all goes away.”

Kim Brandstrup: “Because I’m not from a ballet background, I often don’t use codified steps. First you need the trajectory through the room, then later you can shape it, detail it and make the picture.” Says NYCB principal Sara Mearns, “We couldn’t really get it [at first]. It was like, how big a jump would get you over here, or what kind of turn would work there? Then we realized, we are out of our comfort zone, but we are really free. He is directing us, but he will let us go where we want with the movement.”

“There seems to be this cross-fertilisation going on that’s never happened before. The Royal Ballet and English National Ballet, our two biggest ballet companies, are commissioning contemporary choreographers more and more to work with them. Things are getting blurred in a way and and the dancers are having to be very versatile to take on those different movements.”

“In this series, GQ takes a look at what pro athletes in different sports eat on a daily basis to perform at their best. Here’s a look at the daily diet of [ABT principal] Marcelo Gomes.”

Caroline Thomson, who was a deputy director general and chief operating officer at the BBC before coming to ENB in 2013, will depart next April “to focus on her non-executive work with other organisations.”

The Pavlovich Ballet School, headquarters for the Columbia Classical Ballet and “renovated just this summer, has been completely destroyed. During the flooding, water reached up to the ceiling of the studio. Costumes and music scores were ruined. … The entire building needs to be gutted.”

“Most modern productions of Swan Lake are derived from the 1895 staging at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, which had its premiere after Tchaikovsky’s death and for which Tchaikovsky’s score was drastically reordered and rearranged by Riccardo Drigo. The original 1877 Bolshoi Swan Lake … has been more of a cipher to posterity.” Until now.