Category: dance

YouTube user Robert Jones stitched together clips from some of the greatest dance scenes in movie history for a super-cut set to the Pointer Sisters’ “Neutron Dance.”

“Less than a month after the 2014 Carreño Dance Festival was cancelled, the Sarasota summer intensive workshop for pre-professionals dancers is back – and with a new face and partnership that sent a wave of shock through local dance circles.”

“The English National Ballet School has been accused of putting pressure on its students to lose weight in a controversial message on Facebook. A call for students … to ‘work off” Christmas calories appeared on the school’s Facebook page … It comes despite widespread industry concern about the issue of eating disorders among dancers.”

“After six years in Boise, choreographer Trey McIntyre says he will disband his Trey McIntyre Project as a full-time dance company in July, instead focusing TMP on other enterprises involving film production, photography and choreography” on a per-project basis.

“To survive we need to talk … I think our silence is part of the reason for our marginalization. Not just the marginalization of the arts within the rest of American society, but the marginalization of the artist within the art world.”

“One of the gems of the 2013 Edinburgh festival fringe was a family show that was created, literally, out of rubbish – a ballet set to Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune which was performed by a cast, a litter even, of plastic bags.”

“In 2013, he had no fewer than seven world premieres in five cities on three continents. It becomes increasingly evident that he is the most prolific choreographer alive, the most travel-hungry and the most historically conscious.”

“Olympic ice dancing also now carries the reality-television, celebrity-culture appeal of shows like ‘Dancing With the Stars’ and ‘So You Think You Can Dance,’ programs that have turned the salsa, tango and fox trot into somewhat quantifiable competitions.”

“No one was injured when a woman accidentally drove a sport utility vehicle into the front of Kansas Ballet Academy on Tuesday morning.”

In 1992, American Ballet Theater was reeling from a $6 million deficit and an ugly breakup with artistic director Mikhail Baryshnikov. “McKenzie – a plain-speaking former working-class Irish Catholic altar boy turned ABT principal dancer – was brought in to try to save the company.”