Category: dance

“Sergei Filin, the Bolshoi Theater ballet artistic director who suffered serious burns over his face and body from an acid attack earlier this year, made an emotional appearance in court Wednesday, speaking publicly for the first and likely last time.”

“Nearly 100 representatives of the St. Petersburg ballet community have spoken out against the unexpected appointment last week of former Bolshoi Theater star Nikolai Tsiskaridze as acting rector of the city’s venerable Vaganova Ballet Academy.”

“The public appetite for dance has never been greater. We want to respond to this and give the creative talent in this country a proper chance to develop for the future growth of the art form.”

Last spring, six dancers “defected from the National Ballet while it was on tour in Mexico. The group arrived in Miami in April with no jobs, no money and no real knowledge of American life or command of colloquial English. … And in a remarkable success story, all of them have landed positions,” (Pun intended, we presume.)

“They work hard, they have tried and failed at different things, and they know that to get that extra step, that extra movement, that extra shape and that difficult rhythm into stillness, takes work and trust and nuance and subtlety. That only comes with time.”

Even mediocre films can have stupendous dance numbers.

“We had to do a lot of rethinking — really taking a good, solid, outward focus into the industry and saying: ‘What’s the right size of company that we need? What kind of artistic voice that would really continue to place DTH in this unique position and continue its legacy?'”

“Between the rows of moving cars, she struts her stuff and never flinches. Her sneakers pound the painted traffic lines and her uniform — the bright green reflective vest and the white gloves — highlights her moves.”