Category: dance

“Images of the ballerina leaping through the air were sometimes aided by a carefully concealed trampoline.” (Shocking.)

“Being busy is fairly standard for the Scotiabank Dance Centre these days. Operating at about 80 per cent capacity, the centre has a daily arc that starts with professionals rehearsing in the morning and afternoon and community groups taking over in the evening.”

“Judy Morr occupies a comfortably cluttered and modest office, basking happily in as little attention as she can possibly get, quietly programming dance, especially ballet, for as many people she can get to come see it.”

Once known as the Boy Impresario, “he introduced Vancouver audiences to some of the world’s great dance companies, and inspired a generation of artists and viewers.”

“A pattern emerges and the pattern is that of an assault on the culture. Broadcasting in Canada is not a right, it is a privilege. Giving back to the culture is a requirement of doing business. In this case it’s a matter of crunch the numbers with an agenda and crush the culture.”

“Dancers will be able to use the first specialist clinic within the NHS for injuries they sustain at work from next year. … Based at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, the London service will be free at the point of access for dancers and available to all.”

The rehearsal and office complex, which opened in 2001, operates at 80% capacity, holds showcases for presenters, commissions new work, and – no small thing in the dance world – is solvent, with the mortgage having been paid off four years ago.

Most onlookers has assumed that the company would bring its beloved large-scale story ballets – Swan Lake, Giselle and the like – on its big birthday tour of Canada. Alas, says director Karen Kain, “We are coming with no orchestra, for the first time in the history of the company.”

“In the past decade, Nissinen has transformed Boston Ballet from a largely conservative classical company” – one saddled with years of debt – “to one known for a distinctive mix of classical story ballets, neoclassical gems by the likes of Balanchine and Robbins, and contemporary fare.”

“Paul Lightfoot, who has spent nearly his entire career with the Nederlands Dans Theater as a dancer and choreographer, has been elevated to artistic director, replacing Jim Vincent.”