Category: dance

“Broadly speaking it seems fully appreciating a live ballet screening requires recognising it as a concession to the real deal, not a substitute for it.”

Now the company, founded by former Pacific Northwest Ballet principal dancer Olivier Wevers, has given a 24-week contract for 2014-15 and hired its first full-time executive director.

“‘Le Grand Continental’ strives to include a cross-section of the community, and I saw little competition among the 59-year-old white male demographic. Ten days later I received notice to report to Boston Latin.”

“It may sound simplistic, but what sets these six apart in a corps of 61 — besides their promise and rigor — is the sheer breadth of their dancing. They think about transition steps. They don’t pause before a turn. They move without waiting for applause. Here’s to the new blood.”

Stephanie Ziesel “oversaw the troupe through a turbulent stretch during which it dismissed its founding artistic director, Dennis Nahat, and reshuffled its board of directors. Ballet officials sang her praises but would not comment on the specifics behind this parting of the ways.”

“The Palm Springs Follies is an old-fashioned musical revue designed for an audience who remembers when this sort of entertainment wasn’t old fashioned. But it’s not only for older people – it’s by older people. The dancers range in age from 55 to 84.”

Ingrid Brugge spent a two-season residency with the Royal Danish Ballet creating collages and manipulated images. “These have been collected within Bugge’s print book The Essence of Ballet. But they’ve been given an alternative life in a complementary interactive ibook in which Bugge both records and re-enacts aspects of her working process.”

Damian Smith, a 40-year-old principal dancer who is preparing to retire after an 18-year career, is dipping his feet in paint while taking class and then doing his exercises on canvas. The resulting abstract artwork will be auctioned to support a local museum.

The USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance is bringing on internationally renowned choreographer William Forsythe to join the faculty as a professor in fall 2015 – just in time to greet the new school’s first batch of BFA dance majors.