Category: dance

“Russian doctors said Monday that the Bolshoi ballet’s artistic director,” Sergei Filin, “would regain sight in at least one eye following a brutal acid attack his co-workers blamed on infighting at the famed theatre.”

“Designed as a way to open a window onto the creative process, [Doug Varone’s] Stripped/Dressed intimately reveals to an audience within sweat-spray range how a dance is constructed by stripping it down – no costumes, minimal lighting – and rebuilding it to its fully dressed performance state.”

“Zahra Stardust says her sport empowers women. Casula Powerhouse sees it differently, and has banned a photograph of the pole dancer from a coming exhibition on women in sport” at a municipal gallery in suburban Sydney.

With the acid attack on artistic director Sergei Filin on Jan. 17, the company reaches a violent low, comparable to the bloody fictions of “Black Swan.”

“The looming neoclassical theater across the street from the jagged Kremlin wall has often served as the backdrop to dark conspiracies and malfeasance.”

“He not only championed the rich and famous, but also this shy, pigeon-toed little boy with red hair, who had very little to feel good about until he walked into his school.”

Surgeons don’t know if his sight can be saved, and probably won’t know for another week.

“English National Ballet has launched a campaign to re-brand itself by creating a new logo and website and joining forces with Vivienne Westwood, who has provided clothes for the campaign pictures.”

“There are around 10 Regency-specific balls per year in the UK – and more across America.” Eric Barthe, creator of events website balltrotter.com, says that “almost every town the UK has a small Regency dancing society.”