Category: dance

“‘Philadelphia was poised to be a great American dance capital,’ said Welk. ‘Now we’re a little less poised.'”

“The landscape evokes danger with the possibility of death yet still upholds elegance and class.”

In Ballet West’s new home in Salt Lake City, dancers say dancing there is “like breathing again. It is a massive sigh of relief to have space to move in.” And no kicks in the head!

“I realized that when I dance I use all the space around me with my arms. But in this case the fractal responded to motion in some parts of space more than others. For example, moving my arms up and down made the fractals change much more than moving them side-to-side.”

“You can’t make a simple work about body size because it’s an incredibly complex conversation. I personally use the word fat because I’ve reclaimed it and it doesn’t have any negative baggage. It’s just a description of my body, like tall or brunette.”

Sarah Kaufman: “The happiest ballet studio in the world may be the one just down the street from a Rock Bottom Restaurant and Brewery [in Charlotte], inside a bright purple building bearing the words ‘Patricia McBride/Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux Center for Dance’.”

Elizabeth Mateer of the Pennsylvania Ballet: “Ballet is a young career and you only get one shot at it … My admissions officer told me, ‘Elizabeth, you worked really hard and you are so multitalented, but Harvard is always going to be here.'”

“In her 20 years on the board, Ms. Weill built a formidable legacy: Ailey’s endowment grew to $61 million from less than $1 million. In 2005, the company moved into a custom-built $54 million building, which includes rehearsal studios and a theater.”

“Hinkson’s heart belonged to the Graham repertoire, which increasingly provided her with great roles and success in works like ‘Cave of the Heart,’ ‘Seraphic Dialogue’ and ‘Clytemnestra.'”

“Banks, whose real name is James Davis, did not even have a biography in the programme for English National Opera’s production of The Gospel According to the Other Mary – he became a Twitter enigma with audience members tweeting the question, who is he?”