Category: dance

“Up to 15 workers lost their six-figure salary jobs last week for participating and watching the dance performance, which is the latest dance craze to sweep the world.”

“Berta Yampolsky, who founded the Israel Ballet in 1967 and has been its artistic director ever since, told Haaretz she was fired recently by the company’s supervising accountant.”

“Over the past century so many choreographers translated Le Sacre into different dance languages that its Russo-Franco origins have been over-watered, parched, starched or watered down, depending on the artist.”

“A curtain caught fire Saturday two hours before a ballet performance at Bass Hall downtown, causing a last-minute cancellation of Texas Ballet Theater’s Lambarena and Voluntaries.”

Dance prof: “I got a BFA and MFA in dance and never learned anything about the business aspect,” she said. “I don’t want my students to be in the position I was when I got out of school and suddenly realized I needed certain information to survive.”

“Paul Taylor and Jirí Kylián are both airing their rebellious streak right into their advanced years. Having survived past the point of vulnerability in their careers, they are saying things that might have gotten them into trouble if they’d said them earlier.”

“The incoming artistic director of BalletMet Columbus is Edwaard Liang, who’ll bring the experience of an outstanding international performing career and his choreographic talents to Ohio starting this July. The top post has been vacant since Gerard Charles, whose career with BalletMet spanned 26 years, 10 as director, left the company for a ballet master position with the Joffrey last summer. “

“Goodbye tutus and tights, hello dancing demons – Tamara Rojo now leads a company with a new look and feel, and the critics are wrong to complain.”

“While many dance crazes are undoubtedly silly, they are also arguably irresistible. Additionally, dance fads may be understood as challenging, or representing, the angst of an age.”