“The body is our cathedral, a bundle or a cocoon, drum or ringing bell. The title noBody means both ‘no body’ and ‘nobody’. And nobody is completely alone in this dance work where the dancers move in magically, smoothly flowing formations and complex patterns.”
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Coming Soon: A History Of Social Dancing In Britain
“Royal Opera House creative director Deborah Bull is to front a five-part BBC series looking at the role dance has played socially in Britain’s history. Deborah Bull’s Dance Nation will be broadcast on Radio 4, and is being made by independent company Just Radio.”
Ballet San Jose Finally Announces A 2012 Season
After a tumultuous fall and winter – a cancelled production, the stealth dismissal of the founding artistic director, a suddenly announced “partnership” with American Ballet Theater, and the abrupt departure of the board chairman – the company has planned three productions, each to run over a weekend in March, April and May.
Bill T. Jones On The Religious Roots Of His Choreography
“Coming from the background I came from and witnessing my mother’s tearful prayers – talk about ‘aesthetic arrest’ – watching her put herself through this and go into a trance … Well, I thought that art wanted to do the same thing.”
Bolshoi Ballet’s Resident Loudmouth Dismissed From Ballet Master Post
Nikolai Tsiskaridze, a star dancer who kept himself in the news this fall by publicly insulting both his theater’s renovation and his company’s first foreign member (David Hallberg), has received notice that his teaching contract at the Bolshoi has been terminated.
Portland (OR) Burgeoning New Dance Scene
“Between the vibrant poles of Oregon Ballet Theatre at one end and White Bird Dance at the other are such flourishing outfits as Northwest Dance Project, BodyVox, Conduit and tEEth, as well as individual choreographers and dancers as varied as Tere Mathern, Gregg Bielemeier, Josie Moseley, Rachel Tess, Linda Austin, and Katherine Longstreth. And new performers just keep flowing into the city, or cropping up from its own development programs.”
Hofesh Shechter, Choreography’s Great Survivor
“[When] he arrived in Britain in 2002, he was one of the few dance practitioners who could strip down and reassemble an Uzi machine-pistol blindfolded. He was angry, he was darkly handsome, and he had a lot to tell the world – not least that much contemporary dance was ‘boring’.”
Wendy Whelan On Christopher Wheeldon
“One day I found [young] Chris sitting in the wings after a stage rehearsal … He told me that he was interested in choreography and that he hoped to get the chance to make some work of his own one day. I’m a little embarrassed to admit that I didn’t put much stock in his dream, though I found it endearing that he wanted to grow up to be a choreographer one day.”
What Should The Dance World Be Talking About In 2012? (A List Of Ten Ideas)
Think 3D, globalization, contemporary choreography and so much more.
West Australian Ballet’s Director Leaving For Europe
“WA Ballet Artistic Director Ivan Cavallari is calling it quits at the end of 2012 after overseeing five highly successful seasons which have seen Australia’s oldest ballet company reach unprecedented artistic heights. In 2013 he will take up the position of Artistic Director with Ballet du Rhin in Alcase, France.”