Category: dance

“When I was younger, the work was an engagement with wild, rough motion, later I went through an age of physical refinement and now at 60, as skin separates from bone, I have a more pronounced understanding of the energy behind things.”

“Batyr Annadurdiyev, a dancer at the Bolshoi who spent the night of the attack with the main suspect, said he was subjected to intense psychological pressure by police and did not even read the eventual testimony he signed, some of which he retracted during the court session.”

“American ballet dancer Joy Womack claimed during an interview with Russian daily Izvestia that employees of the world-renowned Bolshoi Ballet attempted to extort $10,000 from her for a chance to perform on stage.”

“Gergiev wants to combine the Mariinsky Ballet and the affiliated school, the Vaganova Academy, and have them both under his own control.”

José Manuel Carreño is “the first official artistic director since Dennis Nahat was fired from BSJ and ABT’s organization was brought in, largely with funds donated by electronics store tycoon John Fry, under the temporary artistic advisorship of Wes Chapman, a former ABT principal dancer.”

The talent is there, but “what’s missing instead is the discipline and focus needed to make the leap to a top-level professional dancer.”

The father-in-law of Bolshoi Ballet artistic director Sergei Filin said on the stand: “I asked the doctors how long the operations would need to go on for, whether it would be another year, or two years. But they said to me that they will probably have to go on for the rest of his life.”

Less than two years after he walked out on his burgeoning career as a principal at London’s Royal Ballet, Sergei Polunin is drawing critical raves and ravenous ticket-buyers to the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre, whose ballet company has always labored in the shadow of the mighty – and now strife-plagued – Bolshoi.

“How do hacks on Twitter and LinkedIn accounts translate to physical movement? Neither the dance nor the music is neatly representative of things like Web site defacements, distributed denial-of-service attacks, and data theft, though they do aim to capture the mood of cyber insurgency.”

“Deborah Cohan, a trained gynecologist, can be seen getting down – dressed in full pre-op gown and colorful protective cap – with a team of anesthetists and other surgical staff … just before undergoing a double mastectomy.”