Category: dance

Patrick Rump, “a broad-chested, broadly smiling German” and former karate champion, is working “to start a revolution in dance health.”

Missing costumes, a fire…

Choreographer Peter Quanz: “I decided to make a group of dancers – which I’ve called sculptures, like a Greek chorus that is omnipresent through the ballet. At one point they are mud and they are born out of the mud. … I use those sculptures as a way to articulate my viewpoint on the relationships throughout the ballet.”

“Creative arts therapy, also known as expressive therapy, includes dance, drama, art and music, according to Ehrman-Shapiro. She said not just any artist can be a therapist. For dance therapy, it requires a master’s degree and more than 3,000 hours of supervision from a dance therapist, just like a social worker.”

He says flat-out that it’s because of the distance: “Despite how rewarding the experience has been it has proved difficult on a personal level to be so far away from family and friends.”

“How can we define the best of the best? It is a matter of opinion and will always be subjective, but there is also the question of popularity and influence.”

“Creating a company gives me tools with which I can work,” Maillot said, “but being a choreographer is not being a painter or writer. You don’t have direct transmission of your work. It depends on others.”

“Where is the equivalent to Adorno on Stravinsky and Schoenberg? Where the monographs to match those on Cubism, or the modern novel? If the link between the “Demoiselles d’Avignon” and temporality in fiction is worth examining, why not between that same painting and Nijinsky’s Sacre du Printemps?”

“In the first of our new guest blogs, Candoco Dance Company’s co-artistic director Pedro Machado explains why, in their new work, Notturnino, his company are making it up on the spot. How will it change the dancers’ relationship with the audience?”

“Last year, when I first heard about One Billion Rising, the day of action Ensler had declared to ‘break the silence’ about violence against women, I did not immediately think (as 999,999,999 other women evidently did), ‘Oh hooray, the famous vagina lady is doing something about violence!’ Instead I thought, ‘They’re going to tell us to dance, aren’t they.'”