Category: dance

“Galina Petrova was born in the city of Kerch in Crimea in 1913. She was educated as a ballet dancer at the Moscow Choreography School. During her student years the young, promising ballet dancer already danced ballet parts at Bolshoi. Upon graduation from the ballet school Petrova joined the Bolshoi ballet.”

Royal Ballet member Beatriz Stix-Brunell: “Performing the choreographer’s new commission for the Royal Ballet is like swimming through honey. Week by week, from our fingertips to our toes, our bodies begin to understand what they need to do.”

“In 2013, she created Fables on Global Warming, a performance-art ballet inspired by animal stories and, last year, presented an ecology-minded piece for families, Four Seasons – A Spinning Planet. Now with the premiere of On the Nature of Things, performed by Armitage Gone! Dance, March 25-27 at the American Museum of Natural History, Ms. Armitage’s activist side has grown even more brazen as she tackles climate change.”

Two of them will be by the company’s current it-boy, Justin Peck; one will be by another NYCB member, Troy Schumacher, with another by San Francisco Ballet corps dancer Myles Thatcher, a protégé of choreographer Alexei Ratmansky.

“The classical and contemporary dancer will be presented with a special award at the London ceremony on 12 April. In her 33 year career, Guillem has danced all the leading roles of the classical repertoire with companies including The Royal Ballet and Kirov.”

“DWTS is easy to dismiss – all those sequins! … [But] the show really does do something unique – not just for reality TV, but for TV in general: It celebrates the merits of good, old-fashioned hard work. The people on the show aren’t just working it; they’re also just plain working.”

“For dancers, it’s become an incredibly useful tool for honing their craft. The newfound affordability of slow motion has enabled them to improve their technique, spruce up their audition reel, and isolate aspects of their performance that were once intangible.”

Michaela DePrince, adopted from a Sierra Leone orphanage at age 4, is now, at 20, a member of the Dutch National Ballet. Since the publication last year of her memoir and a subsequent TEDx talk in Amsterdam, she has become a box office draw for the company and has been fending off requests for everything from media interviews to modeling gigs to stints as spokeswoman for international charitable organizations.

“Prior to last week’s eviction notice, Nia had given Conduit until March 31 to leave, Mathern said. ‘We were negotiating. We had proposed an exit plan through the end of the year, but we didn’t know for sure how long they would allow us to stay.'”

“If partner dancing was wobbling in the 1940s, it wasn’t until the 1950s that the couple form began to collapse altogether, when the early rumblings of the rock ‘n’ roll revolution introduced solo dances like the Twist into American youth culture. And while there exists a long documented history of solo social dances going back to rural black communities (like tap-dancing and clogging) in the United States, this was a watershed moment for white teens.”