“Sadler’s Wells artistic director Alistair Spalding has called on the government to promote dance in education, calling for a similar initiative to Darren Henley’s review of music in schools earlier this year. Spalding also claimed dance was ‘severely underfunded’.”
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New York Is, Briefly, The Capital Of Australian Dance
“The first week of November has turned into unofficial Australian dance week in New York as three of the country’s leading companies” – the Australian Ballet, Sydney Dance Company, and Chunky Move – “find themselves there at the same time.”
Roof Caves In At Zimbabwe’s National Ballet Centre
“The National Ballet centre [in Harare] was on Sunday morning seriously damaged after the roof caved in leaving the building unsafe and unusable.” The 35-year-old building “had housed and trained the national dancing community for decades.”
Can Dancers In The Tate Britain Really Illuminate Picasso?
“Picasso’s work in ballet was an important part of his biography and he created some powerful stage images, especially in Parade. But how much does it help, in trying to understand his paintings, to have [English National Ballet’s] dancers in the gallery?”
Christopher Hampson Named New Director Of Scottish Ballet
“The award-winning director and choreographer will take over from Ashley Page in August next year. Mr Page, who is credited with turning the company’s fortunes around, had been keen to stay – but was unable to agree a new contract with the board.”
Scottish Ballet Names New Director
“Scottish Ballet, the national dance company, has unveiled its successor to artistic director Ashley Page, who will controversially leave the national company next year. Christopher Hampson, a former professional ballet dancer and now international ballet director and choreographer, will lead the company from next August.”
Police Start To Crack Down On Bolshoi Ticket Scalpers
“[At] the Bolshoi Theater, which just reopened after a six-year shutdown for renovations, passions in the line at the box office got so hot that police had to intervene Monday” to stop scuffles between ballet fans who were waiting in line for hours and young toughs who appeared to be buying up tickets for scalpers.
Russian Ballet Shoes Are Cutting Into Capezio’s Market Share
Two Russian shoemakers, Grishko and Ballet Class, “have taken center stage in the production of ballet shoes around the world. The companies’ exports have become so large they are challenging international competitors that boast decades of experience in the industry.”
Lauren Cuthbertson, ‘The Least Diva-Like Of Ballerinas’
“On stage, she might be praised as an extraordinary actor, as intelligent musically as she is stylistically … But to her colleagues, she is simply known as Lozza, Chicken or (to her friend and fellow dancer Edward Watson) Loopy Fucking Loo.”
Moving Images Of Still Photographs Of Dance
“When Canadian director and photographer Ryan Enn Hughes won a fellowship to explore the structural elements of moving image, he decided to marry film and photography by capturing the frozen movements of dance.”