Category: dance

“Alberta Ballet executive director Martin Bragg said in an interview … that the company, which employs 34 dancers full time, is the collateral damage of the program that allows citizens of other countries to work in Canada for specified periods of time in certain industries.”

Perhaps fittingly, it’s performed by a company called Brutal Ballet. (video)

“Although issues of sustainability, training, visibility and funding remain constant, there are some major signs of hope on the horizon. It’s also important for the State as a whole to develop it’s own identity.”

“The choreographer Paul Taylor startled the dance world earlier this year by reinventing his company as Paul Taylor’s American Modern Dance, which he said would perform his works along with those of other modern dance pioneers and contemporary choreographers. Now the new enterprise is coming into somewhat clearer focus” with the announcement of its first season.

“‘It’s a really exciting time,’ Andrew Veyette, one of six dancers who will perform in Mr. Schumacher’s first work for City Ballet — titled ‘Clearing Dawn’ — said in a telephone interview. ‘They bring out the best version of us. They see us as we really are.'”

“The Colorado Ballet spent a full dozen years planning its new headquarters, and meandering around the handsome, three-story building, it seems the company got everything on its wish list.”

Six Iranians arrested for appearing in a video dancing to Pharrell Williams’ song Happy have been sentenced to up to one year in prison and 91 lashes, their lawyer says.

“I may not kick or jump as high as I used to, but I am a trained dancer with body movement memory, a sense of rhythm, an ability to get every routine and never miss a beat. Besides, I have a hell of a time doing it.”

“The current videos show interviews with dancers as well as discussions about preperformance rituals, competition in the ballet world and the need for perseverance in a dancer’s career. There are also behind-the-scenes glimpses of company classes and rehearsals.”

“Copeland’s proceeding along a kind of inevitable music-box destiny, but her path to becoming a star ballerina has been as dramatic, unlikely, and hinged on coincidence as the plots of most ballets – the ones that have plots, anyway.”