Category: dance

Jones’s New York Live Arts is presenting a festival of works inspired by Sacks’s books and case studies. As the doctor says, “Much more of the brain is devoted to movement than to language. Language is only a little thing sitting on top of this huge ocean of movement.”

“The issue is about prominence. So often this season, even when dancers are given meaty choreography or classic moments, they are upstaged, drowned out or stunted.”

“For the past two or three years, I’ve been thinking about going to dance in Europe,” Threefoot says. “There’s a different dance culture there. It’s much more contemporary, and that’s the kind of movement that I feel the most comfortable in.”

“Immediately after the attack, the spotlight fell on 39-year-old Georgian-born Nikolai Tsiskaridze, a principal dancer and teacher who has been at the Bolshoi since 1992 and had clashed with the theatre’s leadership.”

“The Ukraine National Opera house was embroiled in a farcical scandal Thursday after it ousted a star dancer” – Denis Matviyenko – “from the post of ballet company chief on the grounds he never formally held the job.”

“Jacob’s Pillow, the dance festival and school in the Berkshires, will award its seventh annual Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award to Michelle Dorrance, the tap dancer and choreographer whose company, Dorrance Dance, is known for its blend of inventiveness, virtuosity and musicality.”

Tsiskaridze accused the theatre of using an acid attack on its artistic director to conduct a “witch hunt” against him.

English National Ballet artistic director Tamara Rojo “has said missing Ukrainian dancer Sergei Polunin is ‘in Moscow and is OK’, following his sudden departure from a London show. Polunin left Midnight Express days before its UK premiere. Last year, he unexpectedly quit the Royal Ballet.”

Nikolai Tsiskaridze, the aging principal dancer and Russian media star who has questioned if Sergei Filin (his boss) was really attacked with acid, compared Bolshoi management’s criticism of his behavior to Stalin-era purges, and demanded on TV that he be made Bolshoi general director, has asked the court to order that two recent reprimands be removed from his personnel file.

“The 26-year-old Moscow ballerina, who made her name as a wunderkind in the Bolshoi Ballet until she quit two years ago, signed a contract last month but held back the news until the end of the London tour of her current company, the Mikhailovsky Ballet”