As the Merce Cunningham Dance Company enters its final month of existence, its Repertory Understudy Group has given its last performances. “Known as the RUGs, its four dancers were never quite a second company. The group, formalized in 1990, served as an apprentice program for the Cunningham company, with whose members its four dancers shared studios and took class.”
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Martha Graham Dance Company Launches Online Video Contest
“The ‘On the Couch: An Inner Monologue Competition’ is part of the Company’s ‘Inner Landscape’ theme for the season. It asks contestants to download a three-minute video of a dancer … [and] add voice-over or text to the video that reveals the character’s thoughts beginning with the sentence, ‘Doctor, it’s happening again’.”
Dancing About Frank Gehry’s Architecture (And On It, No Less)
“Since 2008, choreographer Noémie Lafrance has been creating a series of dances titled Rapture, “staged on the exterior surface[s] of Gehry buildings. [The works] feature dancers travelling across the roofs and walls using custom rigging systems and video mapping projections to reveal the dynamics of the architecture’s curves in motion.”
Agony and Ecstasy, The BBC Ballet Documentary Series – Did It Tell The Truth?
English National Ballet director Wayne Eagling: “We’re thrilled with Agony and Ecstasy. … it’s had a great effect on both our box office and our public image. But we had no editorial control over the end product, and because, inevitably, it needed to be good television and play up controversy and crisis, it over-emphasised a lot of things to the point of misrepresenting them.”
Looking At Sleeping Beauty‘s Most Terrifying Sequence
“Watching [Alina] Cojocaru, with her steely grace and perfect phrasing (note, for example, the way she drifts that pirouette at 0:30 across the music, or the flawless arabesque sequence from 1:45) you might not guess that the Rose Adagio is one of the great challenges for ballerinas. But it’s a killer.”
How One Ballerina Came Back From Career-Ending Injury
Simone Orlando of Ballet BC finished her final run as a dancer – portraying Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire – only by working through severe pain and injury that eventually led to a complete hip replacement. Then she turned to Canada’s Dancer Transition Resource Centre.
City Ballet Built A Pretty New Media Center, And No One Uses It
At the Lincoln Center, City Ballet’s sleek new media center languishes as contract disputes drag on. But the future might be HD-projection-bright, eventually.
If You Must Take Children (Or Grandchildren) To The Nutcracker …
Then this article has some serious tips for you.
Putting A Face, And A Body (Or Several) To Religious Freedom
Jerusalem’s Kolben Dance Company and its new open blinds policy are one part of wider Israeli society resisting religious restrictions on women.
Recreating Bella: Keeping Legendary Choreographer Alive Through Teaching
“Unlike music (written in scores), art (hanging on museum walls) and books (housed in libraries), dance is lost without person-to-person transmission from the designate to the next-generation dancer who is learning a part. Fortunately, though, there are keepers of the flame who can pass on those masterworks.”