The Miami Beach-based dance company has tapped star catcher Mike Piazza to play the role of a gangster in the May 3 production of Slaughter on Tenth Avenue.
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From Sierra Leone’s Civil War To Dance Theater Of Harlem
“No matter how much she may ever achieve, the most stunning fact of Michaela DePrince’s life will always be that it ever happened at all.”
Watching Crepe Paper Horses Dance Through Grand Central
The most recent of artist Nick Cave’s “Soundsuits” are big, brightly colored, puppet-like horses made out of raffia. Twice a day for a week, dancers got inside the horse-suits and performed a twenty-minute work by choreographer William Gill at the Manhattan transit hub.
Moving, Sexily, Away From The Nutcracker
Tamara Rojo, the new head of the English National Ballet: “Audiences will be surprised. It is not that I want to frighten them; but challenge them, yes,” she said. “These pieces are about grown-up relationships and make no apology for how complicated and raw these relationships can be.”
Indie Dance Company In Minnesota Makes Change Through Allegory
“The power of dance is that it tells stories that are not realistically told,” says Chatterjea. “It suddenly clears a space where many peoples’ minds can meet, and some deep aspects of humanity are suddenly revealed to you. To me that’s the power of dance. It’s metaphor; it’s physical immediacy.”
Mayhem Notwithstanding, Bolshoi Manages To Celebrate Rite Of Spring
“Despite the turmoil following the attack in mid-January on Bolshoi ballet artistic director Sergei Filin, the theater has continued without hesitation to follow the age-old precept ‘the show must go on.’ And this week it … opens a four-week-long festival, ‘Century of The Rite Of Spring – Century of Modernism’, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the first performance of the ballet.”
This Dance Was Nearly Wiped Out By The Khmer Rouge, But …
“The dance is making a comeback after its unique moves were painstakingly recorded by experts who studied sculptures and wall carvings from Angkor Wat’s temples, which are roughly 1,000 years old.”
Ballet Meets Hardware: Dancers Dressed In Aluminum Tubes
“The idea for [The Aluminum Show] came to Israeli-born creator and artistic director Ilan Azriel when he was in a hardware store and opened a box, and some small aluminum tubing fell to the floor. Azriel liked the ‘snake-like’ material and started to examine its possibilities.”
More Ballet-Meets-Hardware: A Dance For Bicycle-Furniture Hybrids
“If you recently saw a person driving a park bench through the streets of San Francisco, don’t worry – you’re not crazy, and neither is the rider. The bench-on-wheels is simply a prop for a performance called Transit: Next Stop, which happens to involve classically trained dancers gliding around on stage atop heavily modded bicycles.”
Balance Of Power – A Dance Between Executive And Artistic Directors
“Although times have changed significantly for the arts since Balanchine and Kirstein joined forces in the 1940s, the model those two men established for the administration of the American dance company remains: an artistic director reigning over the creative wing of the organization, an executive director administering the business side of things, and a board of directors to ensure fiscal responsibility.”