“I did dance two years ago – I’ve never said to myself, ‘I’ve stopped dancing.’ … [But] you know, mind and heart are saying, ‘I’m better than everybody else’. But body sometimes is saying, ‘Easy, easy, easy boy!”
Category: dance
The Australian Ballet Heads Into The Outback
The young dancers of the national company’s touring troupe, mostly in their late teens and finishing their studies at The Australian Ballet School, spend six weeks each winter giving performances in the old theatres of Australia’s far-flung small towns.
New Reality Show To Create Dance Company From Scratch In A Month
Producer Nigel Lythgoe (American Idol, So You Think You Can Dance) has developed a series for the cable network Ovation – titled A Chance to Dance – in which choreographers Michael Nunn and Bill Trevitt (the UK’s Ballet Boyz) will audition and train a company for a performance in 28 days.
The Reality Show That Could Save Dance
Can “Breaking Pointe” do for ballet what ballet companies have been struggling to accomplish for decades now? That is, lure newer, younger audiences to theaters for live classical ballet?
Keeping Ballet Alive In Kosovo
The Kosovo National Ballet was founded 40 years ago, during the Yugoslav days. It had to disband during the war-torn Milosevic era, but since Kosovo’s independence, dancers have revived the company and are keeping it going despite low pay and difficult conditions (such as a rehearsal room with a patched-up floor and only one smallish mirror).
Ballerinas On The Baseball Diamond
Dancers from the Brooklyn Ballet and a local hip-hop troupe took to the field between innings at the Coney Island home of the minor-league Brooklyn Cyclones “and twirled, leapt and generally offered the fans a sort of graceful athleticism absent from the baseball diamond on all but the most exceptional of plays.”
The Aqualillies, Reviving Esther-Williams-Style Water Ballet
“Wearing vintage swimsuits and bathing caps, the Aqualillies look like performers from a bygone era. The group is made up of dancers who learned to swim, and synchronized swimmers who learned to dance.”
The Capital Of The Tango Is… Finland?
“The five-day festival has been going for nearly 30 years and attracts over 100,000 tango-mad Finns. And there are all sorts here. Men in sandals, cut-off denim shorts and cowboy hats. An elderly couple in matching shell suits. Women wearing leopard-print and polka-dot dresses – and there is a lot of leather.”
Monica Mason – 54 Years At The Royal Ballet
“On the one hand, she broke the Royal mold with the attack and scale of her dancing; on the other, her overall career has been the embodiment of tradition and duty.”
Hanging Out – And Watching A Real Dance Performance – On The Front Porch
In Toronto, “Kaeja d’Dance is presenting Porch View Dances, a series of pop-up, pay-what-you-can shows that are turning a downtown community’s porches and courtyards into temporary stages. “