Category: dance

Puppeteering, obviously.

“Doctors also warned that ‘such chemical damage to the eyes demands complex, long-term treatment,’ and predicted that Mr Filin would spend ‘months rather than weeks’ in treatment.”

“While flamenco remains a quintessential component of Spanish culture, embedded in the Gypsy community of Andalusia, its economic sustainability relies increasingly on foreigners, who come to Spain both to learn flamenco and to recruit Spaniards to teach and perform overseas.”

“The clip starts with two young California Conservation Corps members, Antwon McCoy and Leonard Patton breaking it down for the camera. About thirty seconds into their dancing, their boss Griffith, a 42-year old large man with a beard and a ranger hat, drops into the video from stage left and busts a few moves .”

“The first thing I had to do when we were creating the piece was not to think like a human. If I wanted to pick something up, I would normally do it with my hands, so I had to try to do it with my feet or teeth. It was basically tying myself in knots and then trying to move – and sometimes I tied myself up in so many knots that I actually couldn’t move.”

Her “proscenium works” (i.e., those created for theaters) will be licensed to other companies, while Brown’s designated successors will concentrate on the performance and re-creation of Brown’s site-specific dances and those intended for staging in museums and gallery spaces.”

The Tsiskaridze-vs-Filin (and almost everyone else) conflict that forms the backdrop to the current madness at the Bolshoi is part of a larger struggle within Russian ballet – especially at the nation’s flagship companies, the Bolshoi and Mariinsky – between traditionalists and modernizers. Yet there’s one company that’s straddling the divide with remarkable success.

“Three hundred performers said in a letter to Putin they believed Bolshoi star Pavel Dmitrichenko had only confessed to plotting the Jan. 17 attack that almost blinded Sergei Filin because of police pressure.”

Yet the injured Bolshoi Ballet artistic director echoed his boss, general director Anatoly Iksanov, in suggesting that the attack had another mastermind: “It appears that someone had worked really well on that and pushed him into doing it, since every time, every moment, my every meeting with Pavel Dmitrichenko meant another threat, another show of dislike.”