Category: dance

The choreographer’s widow, Eugenia Eiriz, talks about how he brought the flamenco style to narrative stage works and how his foundation is keeping those works alive and bringing flamenco into Spanish schools.

“They go to Stanford. They go to medical school. Some even go on missions to outer space.”

Kevin O’Hare, himself a longtime dancer and staffer at Covent Garden, talks about his own performing career and his switch to administration, the challenges of the job and his plans for the company.

Making gifts of bouquets to the dancers at Covent Garden has a history going back to the company’s shoestring beginnings at Sadler’s Wells in the 1930s. The tradition is now thoroughly established – for all performances, not just opening nights – but there are rules to be followed (and certain preferences to be kept in mind).

“Hippodrome Theatre President Jeff Daniel wants to bring ballet to Baltimore in a big way. Although the city has small ballet companies, Daniel is working to woo the Pennsylvania Ballet – which has about 40 dancers – to become a resident company at the west side theater. The ballet would come to the theater for around 10 nights a year.”

“If there’s one thing Los Angeles doesn’t need, it’s another dance school, even the conservatory-style school that is being planned.”

Brooklyn, of course.

“The Peabody boys, who will also attend a master class with choreography staffers from the show later in the week, easily identify with the musical’s unlikely hero.”

Popular artistic director Christopher Stowell has just resigned after a disagreement with the board, and two senior staff members have also departed. But revenue from this year’s Nutcracker is running well ahead of projections, and critics are unusually enthusiastic about this year’s edition of the ballet.

“Sergei Polunin, the Ukrainian prodigy who stunned the dance world by walking out on the Royal Ballet, is to return to the UK for a brutal show ‘as far away from Swan Lake as you can get'” – an adaptation of Midnight Express, the story of an American drug-smuggler in a Turkish prison.