“In a process it dubs the ‘world’s first web ballet’,” the San Francisco Bay Area company “is taking suggestions starting Tuesday for a new ballet, via Twitter. Participants can cast votes for one of three choices of music and can suggest the mood of the work, the emotions of the dancers, or different dance moves to include.”
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Jasper Johns Remembers Working With Merce Cunningham
“I don’t remember that I watched Walkaround Time rehearsals. I believe that I may have given Merce dimensions of the various ‘boxes’ to help him allow for their presence on the stage.”
City Of Raleigh Covers Carolina Ballet Fundraising Shortfall
“The Carolina Ballet will get some emergency funding from the city after losing funding from one of its significant and regular donors. Ballet Executive Director Lisa Jones said one of the organization’s major donors is no longer in the position to make regular contributions.”
Dancing In The Round
“Perhaps lightness does not age well. But the clarity of Cunningham still shines.”
Budding Ballet Boyz: The Talent
“When former BalletBoyz Michael Nunn and William Trevitt launched something they called the Talent three years ago, it was an experiment, an apprenticeship ensemble … Already, however, the Talent has become one of the UK’s most popular companies, with a new tour set to premiere works by A-list choreographers Russell Maliphant and Liam Scarlett.”
Ballet And Bitch-Fights, Simultaneously – On Set At Bunheads
Series creator Amy Sherman-Palladino: “We just shot a scene where the girls are in a spat, and the whole thing takes place during a dance routine. We built a dance with yammer. A yammer dance. It’s tricky as shit. It wasn’t hard enough to do separately, so I just had to throw it together.”
Nuryev’s Legacy In The Spotlight, 20 Years After His Death
“‘He redefined the role of the male dancer,’ said ballet historian Helene Ciolkovitch. ‘He took it beyond that of simple support, creating a more balanced partnership with the ballerina.'”
Dancercise And Moldy Jokes From 1920s Chorus Girls
Antics of Arabella, a comic strip that ran in a New York City tabloid, “featured photographs of Broadway ‘chorus girls’ demonstrating stretches that showed off their bodies while they told mildly funny jokes.”
ABT Announces Dancer Exchange
“American Ballet Theater and two European dance companies are engaging in a little trans-oceanic swapping” – with Britain’s Royal Ballet and the Royal Danish Ballet.
Behind The Scenes At The Royal Ballet’s Fairy-Tale Triptych
“The Royal’s latest Triple Bill, which features the Stravinsky/Fokine Firebird, Jerome Robbins’s In the Night and Act 3 of the Nureyev Raymonda, is being acclaimed as one of the company’s festive highlights – and not a piece of tinsel in sight. Photographer Tristram Kenton has been watching it come together behind the scenes.”