“The villainy of ice dancing knows no bounds. If the fix is not in against Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, then I’m the Princess of Wales.”
Category: dance
Now Martha Graham’s Dances Can Be Archived the Way Merce Cunningham’s Are
The Mellon Foundation has given a $1 million grant to the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance to organize and digitize its archives and to create “toolkits” to help revive and restage Graham’s works.
Ballerinas Weren’t Always Required to Be So Thin (So We Should Stop Demanding It Now)
Judith Mackrell: “A century ago, weight was never so contentious. While ballerinas were inclined to be more slender than the norm, … those dancers were not expected to be excessively thin. … It was in the mid-1920s that attitudes to dancers’ bodies shifted.”
BBC TV to Air Major Series of Ballet Specials in March
The programming, on BBC2 and BBC4, includes Darcey Bussell honoring her ballet heroines, a documentary on how World War II helped create modern British ballet, a behind-the-scenes visit with Tamara Rojo preparing the lead role in Swan Lake, and rare footage of Margot Fonteyn.
The Dancing Skeleton – Scientists Create 3D Motion-Capture To Pinpoint Dancer Stress
“The result is a moving three-dimensional model of the ballerina’s skeleton – that mimics her actual movements. Algorithms then calculate how much stress is placed on each part of the body, drawing attention to areas that are likely to cause trouble in the future.”
Trey McIntyre: I’m Proud That You Miss My Dance Company
“And that’s a great thing – to actually have something to mourn in this process, that makes me feel really proud that we achieved something great.” But he’s still going to leave us to mourn, while he gives up dance to make films.
At Least Sergei Filin Can See This Much
“Sergei Filin, the Bolshoi Ballet artistic director who was wounded in an acid attack last year, will come to New York in April as one of the judges in the Youth America Grand Prix ballet competition, officials from the contest announced.”
Weight Shame and Eating Disorders in Ballet – It Hasn’t Gotten Better
Katie Colombus: “I so wanted to say that times had changed. … I thought back to those days, when at least one in four of the girls in my institute were either anorexic or bulimic, and the rest had fairly serious aspirations of joining either side. … But I don’t think we have moved forward.”
Dancing With a Forklift
“The forklift is spinning around and Henna and I are hanging off the tines and holding each other and pulling each other up and constantly moving.”
Cash and Choreographers – Don’t Be Afraid to Ask Your Audience for Money!
“That’s the one thing they never tell when you’re starting your own organization. You’re always advised to have money, find money, get money, get people behind your project that have money, but you’re never told to just ask for money.”