Category: dance

“There was a time in my 20s when I would go clubbing without fail every week and it didn’t take much to lure me on to the dancefloor. … Today I am a middle-aged, married, mortgaged, fortysomething father. My opportunities for dancing have diminished, as has my confidence.” How Sarfraz Manzoor got his groove back.

“The New York City Ballet, which was forced by financial pressure to limit its Saratoga Performing Arts Center residency to one week last summer and this year, will return for two weeks in 2015, SPAC management announced Tuesday.”

How artist Raja Feather Kelly created Andy Warhol’s DRELLA (I Love You Faye Driscoll). (includes video)

A Royal Ballet statement said: “Out of the 96-strong dancers in The Royal Ballet, just two dancers have chosen not to go on tour to Moscow for political reasons.”

“There is a very, very dark side in humanity,” says the Albanian-French choreographer. “There is something light and beautiful in humanity, but my way of fighting against the very hard part is to show it and not to answer a question but to ask a question on that.”

It was because of noodging from his mother. (Thanks, Ma!)

“Companies in cities like London, New York or Boston or San Francisco are very interested in hiring dancers from across several nationalities and ethnicities to reflect the cosmopolitan environments in which the cities are. And dancers from Cuba are highly coveted.”

“Bounden works like this: two players hold the phone from opposite ends and guide a cursor through a sort of maze on the screen while music plays; the shape of the maze forces the players to twist, spin, and loop around and under each other, as in a dance. The underlying choreography was developed by Ernst Meisner of the Dutch National Ballet, and the app contains videos of company members performing the finished dances.”

“Two years ago, the Indonesian performance artist Melati Suryodarmo gained YouTube notoriety when a version of her Exergie — butter dance was posted to the website. Originally accompanied by Indonesian drum percussion, the reworked clip set [her] performance of a traditional Indonesian-inspired dance on 20 blocks of melting butter to Adele’s ‘Someone Like You’.”

“‘In Cuba, there is a lot of monotony,’ Carlos Ignacio Galindez said. ‘In every sphere: Sports, arts, engineering, computer science. And as a professional, you always feel a bit stuck’.”