The dance troupe announced it had raised more than the $550,000 it needed in order to go on. “With many in the arts community still mourning the loss of San Jose Rep, the fact that the ballet was able to stay alive is the source of much relief throughout the South Bay.”
Category: dance
What A Reality TV Series Did For Ballet West
“Despite the worries and righteous indignation at the company’s supposed lowbrow treatment of ballet, Ballet West seems to have emerged from the experience in fine shape and with an undeniably more prominent profile. Though there is no definitive correlation, ticket sales in the last two years have risen by more than 20 percent, and Ballet West’s touring schedule is busier than ever.”
London Might Be Pricing Dance Out. Can New Buildings Help?
“London is thriving as a world capital of dance, but there’s a danger that this may change. As in New York – once a creative playground because of its cheap rents and empty loft spaces – the rising price of property may soon drive the talent away.”
Cuban Dance Is About To Change – A Lot
“With the reduction in foreign subsidies and the increase in actual trade, … Cuban dance is going to become something different. It is likely that things will start stirring not at the most privileged level, ballet, or at the humblest, such as Rumba Saturdays, but in the middle, in modern dance.”
When A Career Cunningham Dancer Gets His Own Company
“After the Merce Cunningham Dance Company disbanded in 2011, Robert Swinston, who was with the troupe for more than 30 years, did just that. He began again” – in France,”where he now directs the National Contemporary Dance Center in Angers and is also the artistic director of Compagnie CNDC-Angers.”
Is School Failing Dancers? (It Depends On What You Think School Is For)
“In a world of slash careers, where we easily understand the lawyer/journalist or physician/entrepreneur, why are we dancers or something else? Why would someone be thought of as a failure if they are a dancer/college professor or a strategic planner/choreographer? If they are happy, who is anyone to judge? Our foremothers and forefathers in the field were teachers/dancers/choreographers. Why are we trying to make excuses for the very inner-workings of the field?”
What’s The Purpose Of Dance School Again?
“The purpose of the university dance program is to offer students the opportunity to participate in a deep and profound process of creating, performing, responding to, and connecting from the practice of an art form. Dance takes them into the life of arts-informed human beings; people who live not at the margins of the world, but lead the way, by example, to full, proactive, creative, disciplined, empathic, and imaginative lives.”
“The Work That Changed Ballet For Ever”: William Forsythe’s “In The Middle, Somewhat Elevated”
Sarah Crompton: “He is consequently the only choreographer who has ever been mentioned in the same sentence as the philosopher Michel Foucault, applying a similar critical intelligence to the nature of dance and its language.”
Inside The Giant Particle Accelerator, Artists Try To Make Sense Of The Science
“van Leer and his team wanted to research how they could connect multiple levels of movement, including music, sound, animation, data clouds, and camera work, into a single visual experience.”
Male Belly Dancers Make A Comeback In Istanbul
“Dressed in skirts decorated with coins and shimmering tassels, male belly dancers are back in vogue, jerking their hips and trembling their abs to hypnotic Turkish rhythms. Known as zennes, the performers were once a mainstay at the courts of Ottoman sultans, but they have been largely out of sight for decades. Their renewed popularity comes amid a broader revival of Ottoman-era culture that has spread to television, fashion and politics.” (includes video)