“A co-founder of National Dance Company Wales has stepped down from his post as artistic associate. Roy Campbell-Moore’s decision comes after he was suspended following a complaint about his behaviour by members of staff.”
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Pilobolus Dances With Drones
Company executive director Itamar Kubovy: “The prevalence of drones made it more important to understand what the kinds of interactions between man and machine is like. We wanted to explore having a space that is occupied by both machines and people – this idea that a machine is watching and surveilling and a human is responding to that.”
Florence’s Opera House To Shut Down Ballet Company
“Addio to Mag gi oDanza, the bal let com pany formed in 1967 under the aus pices of Florence’s Mag gio Musicale Fiorentino. A financial crisis has res ul ted in the decision to axe the bal let com pany … [which] had already been stream lined to 16 ele ments over the last few years, and after Vladi mir Derevi anko left the dir ec tion of the com pany in 2010 it has been on shaky ground.”
Aging English Ex-Ballerina Grouses About Royal Ballet ‘Infiltrated’ By Foreigners
Bryony Brind, 52 and a principal dancer at Covent Garden for 14 years: “The Royal Ballet was founded in this country and has been going for years and should have a few more English dancers in order to carry on its tradition. It is more difficult for foreign dancers to grasp the quintessentially British style.”
Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company Names New Artistic Director
“Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company announced Daniel Charon as its new artistic director Thursday, May 9 — the eve of its 50th anniversary. Charon becomes the first male and the second full-time artistic director to be hired by the company … The company’s founding directors, Shirley Ririe and Joan Woodbury, stepped down in 2008.”
Measuring Success: Data-Driven Dance
“Judgment [in the dance field] is often based on aesthetic or taste, usually informed by exposure, and it tends to limit the conversation to ‘like’ or ‘dislike’. … Our goal, instead, should be to guide and instruct performers and audiences in how to evaluate the quality of a product beyond an actual performance – including how to lead to performance and advance beyond it. But how do we best determine what those include?”
Diaghilev, The Ballets Russes, And The Guys Onstage
“Into this pastel-tinted world marched the Ballets Russes, with its hot colors, new music — and men. Electrifying, beautiful, sexy men.”
NPR Goes Crowdsource For ‘Rite of Spring’ Anniversary
“We’re inviting professionals and the public alike to take the last minute of Stravinsky’s inimitable score,” says the venerable public radio institution, “and create a new video to go along with this music.”
Jonah Bokaer Dances With His Father
“In February 2011 the choreographer and dancer Jonah Bokaer was to perform a duet, Replica, in Carthage, Tunisia. The performance, significantly, would have been Mr. Bokaer’s first visit to his father’s native land. But things didn’t go quite according to plan.”
Flash Mobs Go Corporate (At Least It’s More Paid Work For Dancers)
“The original flash mobs often had little obvious purpose and were decidedly noncommercial gatherings by amateurs, says Bill Wasik, who is widely credited with creating the first flash mob, in 2003.” No more. “Dance Mob Nation, based in Los Angeles, says it charges an average of $2,000 to $4,000 per event and as much as $10,000, depending on the presentation.”