Category: dance

“Mayra Worthen, founder and former artistic director of Ballet San Antonio, is launching Ballet Hispanico de San Antonio, a Latin-oriented company of classically trained dancers.”

The New York Theater Ballet, a small company with an outsize reputation for staging classics and the work of emerging choreographers, … has until Sept. 30 to vacate its studio and office space … on the fifth floor of the parish house of the Madison Avenue Baptist Church.”

“At the center of Passion, the new psychosexual thriller from master manipulator Brian De Palma, is a split-screen sequence featuring a classic work of modern choreography alongside a highly choreographed murder.”

New York Times music critic Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim attends a workshop led by Catherine Turocy, America’s top expert on Baroque dance. “By the end of the workshop, my feet were no closer to mastering the Sarabande than before. But my ears had learned to see Baroque music in a new way.”

“After all, the [programme] was created by a musician who, at that point, had famously rejected and expressed disdain for all forms of live performance, and the doc is about a religious group [the Mennonites of Manitoba] that at times has discouraged dancing among its members.” Yet Emanuel Gat has pulled it off.

“A critical first step is to acknowledge that twerking is a normal part of life and that there is nothing shameful in their questions. They’re parents, after all, and this is the sort of thing they hear about on NPR, and, well, they’re curious.”

Millepied: “In a city as cosmopolitan as this, I cannot understand why no coloured dancers belong to this company. How can you expect the audience to identify with it?” France: How dare you suggest that this is not the land of égalité?

“A man wakes up one morning to find himself turned into a giant insect. It’s the famous, improbable opening of Kafka’s novella The Metamorphosis, and it popped into the choreographer Arthur Pita’s head one day when he was thinking about working with the Royal Ballet principal dancer Edward Watson.”

“While competition shows have become so embedded in pop culture that the idea of another season of Fox’s “So You Think” is merely ignorable, the demise of “Bunheads,” which ran on ABC Family, is crushing.”

“When courts make a determination as to what is and is not art, they are not on the most solid ground.”