It’s a tough job that Benoit Swan-Pouffer left behind about a year ago – “running a well-funded, New York-based operation with an extensive repertory of work by big-name choreographers”. But the company’s ballet mistress is ready to take it on.
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Savion Glover: Why I Tap
“I don’t tap dance for the sake of applause. I don’t tap dance for the sake of spectacle. I tap dance for equality, I tap dance for the recognition of the man in this country, what we had to go through as a people in order to claim existence in this country.”
Where Dance and Boxing Meet
In choreograher Mourad Merzouki’s Boxe Boxe, “as the protagonists come into the ring (complete with stripe-shirted umpire), boxing mitts turn into glove puppets, a dancer’s body curves in a feline swoop only to be caught in a firm headlock, and limbs jab, swipe and kick while a string quartet roams the stage.”
This Dance About Boxing Uses an Actual Ring and Bell
“The brainchild of Amsterdam-based, Italian-born choreographer Emio Greco and Dutch dramaturge Pieter C. Scholten, Rocco explores brotherhood, masculinity, and the mythology of boxing, while pushing its four male dancers to physical extremes.”
Study: Can Animals Dance?
The debate lies in a crucial distinction. While many animals are obviously capable of “moving rhythmically” to music, that’s not the same thing as dancing.
Choreographers Bare Their Thoughts About Onstage Nudity
Marie Chouinard, Jonah Bokaer, Sibi Larbu Cherkaoui, Sidra Bell and Alexander Ekman talk “about why and how they use the naked body in their work. While for some it requires serious deliberation and justification, others see nudity as just another tool in their artistic arsenal.”
Orthodox Jewish Dancercise Is Now a Thing
“On a crowded dance floor, a group of 50 women are swaying, stomping, lunging, and gyrating to singer Jason Derulo’s ‘Talk Dirty,’ Pitbull’s ‘Don’t Stop The Party’, and other popular numbers blasting over loudspeakers. It could be any trendy New York club, except here the dirty words and sexually explicit lyrics are missing from the raps, and no men are allowed. Ever.”
Is Dance Finding A New Place In Opera?
“Dance is being given a place in opera, not so much in the form of the big, happy intermezzi of yesteryear but as the thing that everyone said it couldn’t be: a plot advancement.”
Helgi Tomasson: Three Decades At San Francisco Ballet
“Tomasson’s created more than 40 ballets, most of them for his own company. Simultaneously, he’s taken San Francisco Ballet to global renown. Tomasson marked 29 years at the helm by signing a contract earlier this month for another five years as artistic director.”
China’s Latest Urban Problem: Flocks of Dancing Old Folks
Retired city folks are cranking their boom boxes and boogie-ing in parks, squares and parking lots – and driving the neighbors nuts. The elders themselves – tens of millions of them – say it’s good for their physical and mental well-being (and digestion, too).