Category: dance

“Scottish Ballet has announced a newly commissioned version of A Streetcar Named Desire, which is to tour to Scotland, London and Belfast in late spring 2012. The ballet … is to be created by theatre and film director Nancy Meckler with Netherlands-based choreographer Anabelle Lopez Ochoa.”

Charles Askegard, former New York City Ballet star and co-founder of the brand-new company: “It’s ballet plain and simple. Of course there’s nothing plain or simple about what we do.”

“One of the UK’s oldest dance companies has been awarded £360,000 to preserve and display a century’s worth of costumes and film archive. The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) grant means Rambert Dance Company can display its historical collection when it re-locates to London’s South Bank in 2013.”

“A planned collaboration between famed theater director Robert Wilson and choreographer Lucinda Childs” – titled I Was Sitting on My Patio This Guy Appeared I Thought I Was Hallucinating – at the Pacific Standard Time festival has been postponed indefinitely.”

“When We Were Kids is a simple idea – professional dancers watch footage of themselves performing as children – but it does tell certain truths about ballet, and about the people who make it their lives. These kids are serious.”

Dancers need to learn a multitude of choreographed steps, but is the best method through a notated score or through video? And what does a notator do, anyway?

“At Ballet Theater, which is overrun with guest stars, there is a new generation of dancers that could become the next decade’s top artists, if they are cultivated for the long haul.”

“Street dance world champions Flawless are joining forces with English National Ballet for a show and nationwide tour. The collaboration, involving 10 ballerinas and Flawless’s 10 men in a mix of street dance, acrobatics and ballet, was announced today.”

“Set in modern-day San Francisco, the story follows young Miriam – the equivalent of Clara or Marie in other productions – from a family Hanukkah party to a dream in which she witnesses the battle fought by Judas Maccabee, the reconstruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem and the arrival of Jews from all over the world for the temple rededication.”