Category: dance

“The race card doesn’t exist in the ballet world. Those words to me are so ignorant, especially coming from people inside this world. People aren’t trying to put diversity on the stage to better their companies or brands. The ballet world could care less.”

“Eight months after mold forced the Orlando Ballet from its longtime home, the dance company could be moving to new headquarters in a prime location, Orlando’s Loch Haven Park.”

“Roy Kaiser, Pennsylvania Ballet’s artistic director for two decades, is stepping down. The former dancer, who started his career with the company 35 years ago, will stay on until a successor is found.”

“Contestants from 36 countries climbed, gripped and did splits on poles during the three-day competition in Rio de Janeiro.” The competition, open to men and women alike, has a top prize that can run up to around $30,000. (video)

“Yes, it’s true: City Ballet is turning itself – and more than 40 members of its company – over to a man who has never choreographed before. He watched his first ballet in June. Do you hear that sound? Choreographers everywhere are eating their hearts out.”

“No other borough refers to itself in that way, talking about movement and culture. We are known in the world as the Boogie Down. When you come to the Bronx, you got to get down, move your body and get funky.”

The Canadian McKie, “who turned 31 this month, was just a kid when he saw former National Ballet superstar Rex Harrington dance the title role in Onegin. It turned his attention from tap and jazz to ballet, which until then he’d thought of as ‘what the girls at my school did.'”

“There’s an assumption that people will work for nothing to get exposure and, of course, that undermines the profession. One would assume they would have enough money to pay dancers who were involved in a music video.”

“What makes me human is a love of dance. On the dance floor, age, colour, nationality, status and education are of no consequence, only a shared ability to respond to the rhythms of music.”

The 37-year-old American Ballet Theater soloist does plan to continue dancing as a guest with other companies and is in training as a repetiteur with the Anthony Tudor Ballet Trust.