Category: dance

One winner remembers his coaches, his choices – and his nerves.

“A recent sales breakdown yielded the following items sold during Nutcracker and the repertory season (a total of about 90 performances): 5,400 ornaments; 4,600 nutcrackers; 2,200 pieces of jewelry; 1,300 items of logo apparel; and 1,300 plush toys.”

“It’s like those videos you see of older tai chi masters pushing a young student across the room by barely moving. All those women have incredible history in their bodies.”

“In no way is it something I want to abandon. I think it is important to follow through with it,” says the new company’s founder, who expects to hand it over to another choreographer. Says a producer for LADP, “This was never meant to be ‘his’ company,”

Stuart Shugg, at 25 the youngest member of the Trisha Brown Dance Company, grew up as the son of a carpenter and a nurse in an isolated Australian town (6 hours from Melbourne, 11 from Sydney).

The 39-year-old will give her final performance as an ABT principal (dancing Tatiana in John Cranko’s Onegin) at the Metropolitan Opera House on May 18. (She will continue to perform as a guest with various companies.)

“They have occupied factories and taken to the streets. But Chinese workers chose a more unusual form of protest when they highlighted their unpaid wages by dancing Gangnam Style outside the nightclub they had built.”

Galina Stepanenko, 46, is a longtime prima ballerina with the company who retired last year. Wounded artistic director Sergei Filin, who will require at least six months to recover from the acid attack he suffered last week, is said to trust her, and she says she will carry out all of his programming and casting plans.

“There are a lot more trials ahead … But I’m full of energy, I’m cheerful, I don’t feel angry, I’m not in despair. I’ll carry on in just the same way as I do leading the Bolshoi Ballet. … I can’t promise that I’ll return handsome, but the fact that I will return in full force, I can guarantee.”

“For the second time in the past year, the majority of the Charleston Ballet Theatre’s board of directors has resigned. … The previous board of directors resigned in February 2012 following charges of plagiarism, the ill treatment of dancers, and financial mismanagement.” Remaining are controversial artistic directors Don and Patricia Cantwell and resident choreographer Jill Bahr.