Category: dance

“A new work by the Royal Ballet is to feature pop singers and hip-hop rappers accompanying ballerinas on stage at Covent Garden in a collaboration with music producer Mark Ronson.”

As a new show of his photographer opens in Miami, “‘I’m interested in focusing on body parts, the movements which really one cannot notice in the audience,’ says Baryshnikov, 64. He knows what he’s looking for, after all, and he can get a backstage pass anywhere in the world.”

Robert Battles carried a hammer in his dance bag as he walked to high school in Miami. “I was nervous about being picked on. And it gave me a certain confidence that I could be tough when I needed to be.” Now he returns to his high school to give dance students a different kind of confidence.

The New York City Ballet music director has become too popular, and too overworked, in France. “Mr. Karoui said that until now he had been able to manage his commitment to City Ballet ‘with the rest of my artistic life, but this is no longer possible.'”

Li Cunxin ” was born in poverty in China, became a world ballet star, segued into stockbroking, wrote a best-selling memoir, took on a sideline in motivational speaking and, as of yesterday, is artistic director-elect of Queensland Ballet.”

“In Australia, a national tradition is under threat. On summer weekends, members of elite squads head to the beach. Standing like guards outside Buckingham Palace, participants parade up and down, barefoot on the sand, practicing a pageant that mixes the pomp of military ceremony with Baywatch.”

“Following his sudden walkout from the world-famous company [the Royal Ballet] where he was trained and nurtured as the most promising young man for decades, he is returning to Sadler’s Wells in a mere three weeks with the independent programme of male ballet put on by his compatriot-in-rebellion Ivan Putrov.”

“I am completely destroying my whole body, all my technique and strength. It will come back, it’s like riding a bicycle, but I will have to start from scratch. It’s a bit traumatic. … The only good thing about this is that my mind’s been dancing a lot. I have been creating a lot.”

Judith Mackrell, commenting on Wayne Eagling’s sudden resignation as artistic director: “ENB has always had a tricky position to maintain within the UK’s dance culture: funded at a much lower level than the Royal Ballet, for example, and with a remit to tour widely, it has very little leeway for risk-taking.”

The retiring director of British dance’s flagship company remember highlights of her long career.