A video visit backstage at Covent Garden to watch Russia’s flagship ballet company do its daily training.
Category: dance
Vasiliev And Osipova On Living And Dancing Together
“It’s easy on stage, because if something happens, we both understand immediately and we can deal with it. But in rehearsing we can have, like, scandal because we are family and you can say something and its difficult. But it’s fun because in your family you want to push more; with a different partner you can’t say, ‘Give me more’.”
Pole Dancing Tries To Turn Itself Into A Sport
The organizers of the World Pole Sports Championships “want to reform pole dancing into a sport respectable enough to go to the Olympics. So they’ve written a rule book that gives code names to compulsory moves, specifies scoring methodology and bans pole-dancing staples such as removable articles of clothing. And they’d like people to call their event ‘pole sports’ now.”
San Diego Dance Company Folds
“San Diego’s Eveoke Dance Theatre, a genre-blending and barrier-breaking arts organization since 1994, is going on indefinite hiatus, according to Artistic Director Ericka Aisha Moore.”
The Discipline It Takes To Be A Bolshoi Dancer
“It is a rare privilege, too, to watch a teacher such as Boris Akimov, himself a famous Bolshoi dancer, nurture and coax the company to push themselves through the routines that he devises both to keep their interest and to keep their skill levels soaring high.”
Bolshoi Dancer Retracts Confession In Acid Attack; Attacker Backs Him Up
Pavel Dmitrichenko, “accused of organising and paying for the acid attack that blinded the Bolshoi Ballet artistic director Sergei Filin, has denied orchestrating the assault, in an apparent retraction of a confession made earlier this year.” Yuri Zarutsky, who admits throwing the acid, “denied that either Dmitrichenko or Lipatov had anything to do with the crime, accusing detectives of fabricating the case against them.”
August Is For Seeing Where Dance Is Going
Like in San Francisco. Here’s what the city’s choreographers are doing…
Do Ballet’s Classics Need Reinvention?
“The classics are durable; they grow and adapt over time. But they’re also like love letters, poems or fairytales. Their magic is fragile. If you subject them to careless repetition or inadequate restaging, their power fades and they grow stale.”
The Oscars Of Water Ballet?
“Sink or Swim, a four-minute water ballet about love, marriage and pool fights, swept the awards Saturday at SynchroSwim 2013, a quasi-annual spectacle organized by the Washington Project for the Arts. About 400 people gathered around the Capitol Skyline Hotel pool, curious to see what this year’s coterie of competitive performance artists, dancers and swimmers would do.”
Dancing Bishops At The Pope’s Rio Shindig
Note: This is not an Onion story.