Category: dance

“From professional rehearsals and classes with the Miami City Ballet to training with the Miami City Ballet School, the apprentices experience dance as both students and professionals. They are constantly focused on their ultimate goal: achieving careers as professional dancers.”

“Fagan’s blend of Afro-Caribbean and modern dance is technically challenging, requiring changes in rhythms and speed. … But Fagan’s choreographic process begins in silence, when he has the dancers learn the movement and rhythms. ‘They learn the parts of the body that they should and shouldn’t use,’ added Fagan, ‘then I bring the music and their eyes light up.'”

“The movement of dancers between The Great White Way and the mirrored precincts of the ballet studio is nothing new. What is of note is the development of the Fairchild-Peck dance family dynasty.”

“The Mark Morris Dance Group is simultaneously going west and east from mid-October through November, as for the first time in the company’s 34-year history, it splits into two groups.”

“In addition to a free rehearsal studio, administrative space, office services and an annual salary with benefits, the residency will allow Ms. Tharp a first in her 50-year choreography career: her own school.”

Wendy Whelan is retiring from New York City Ballet at age 47. Her farewell performance, “which will include a new work created for her by Alexei Ratmansky and Christopher Wheeldon, two of ballet’s biggest choreographic names — sold out within minutes.”

“As carefully as this competition has been worked out, as admirable as its panel of judges may be, there are flaws in the whole concept that no amount of sensitivity and good sense can overcome.”

“Young Dancer 2015, launched on Thursday at Sadler’s Wells dance house in London, will see 16-20 year-olds compete in four categories: ballet, contemporary, hip-hop or South Asian. Judges for the grand final will include celebrated dance names, including choreographer Matthew Bourne and ballet star Tamara Rojo.”

And it’s in, of all places, 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. “Eiko realizes that she might be an irritant for some hurried travelers. ‘You will have to accept me,’ she said. ‘So how do I deliver the pleasure of being a nuisance? I think I have a taste for it, and that’s the bottom line: I have a taste for being a nuisance.'”

Kathryn Morgan had been dancing with New York City Ballet for four years when she was diagnosed with an under-functioning thyroid – complete with exhaustion, hair loss, migraines, and, of course, weight gain – at age 21. After two years trying to dance through it and then two years off, she’s ready to relaunch her career. (includes video)