Category: dance

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“I formulate my ideas based on the structure and melodies of the music and certain emotions captured in it. And this is such a full piece of music. When I realized the scale of it I started thinking about having a large cast. … If you’re playing with Legos, you can build something more substantial if you have 100 pieces instead of 3.”

A dancer trained in kathak, a classical form from northern India, writes of how his struggles with language – including incorporating a new dance vocabulary into his body – led to the creation of two new works.

“One day in 1991, this French rock band member, fashion designer, visual artist and serious clubber went to a dance audition with a friend. Like the character Leroy in the movie Fame, Mr. Rizzo was hired before he realized he had participated in the audition.”

“Everything begins with thinking. “Music is thought made audible. Dance is thought made visible. … Every ballet is about something; it’s not just a series of steps.”

“The number of empty seats on opening night was a sad reminder of what a struggle it can be to run a small dance company, even one as accomplished as this.”

“For all the performers’ prowess, what sometimes seems to be missing is the urban context itself. For a dance form that is so closely tied to the street, like its siblings of skateboarding and free-running, it can be strange to see it severed from the city.”

“Here we are in 2014, still having to ask one of ballet’s biggest and, in many ways, most forward-thinking institutions, Where are the female choreographers?”

“Roy Kaiser, who joined the corps de ballet of the Pennsylvania Ballet in 1979 and rose through its ranks to principal before eventually becoming artistic director of the company in 1995, has announced that he is stepping down.”

“The choreographer for Kylie Minogue’s controversial video clip I Was Gonna Cancel has described the initial offers of non-payment to dancers on the shoot as a ‘mistake’.” (Modern dance mavens may be surprised at who this choreographer is.)