Category: dance

“I’m in this business because I can’t build houses. This is my way of making something, and I’ve fallen in love with the process of doing it with other people.”

“It was the moment that launched a million YouTube hits: a ballerina, pretty as a snowflake, dancing a pas de deux from Swan Lake on her partner’s head.”

“Dancers voted Monday to approve an agreement that would end their labor dispute with management and attended rehearsals on schedule.”

2wice “is a reimagining and reconfiguration of a print project in which choreography legend Merce Cunningham created a series of dance events that were recorded by some of the most talented dance photographers in the field.”

For a piece she has titled Document, Sandra Parker “set up a series of what she calls ‘performed interviews’, in which she asked several dancers with whom she had worked to come into the studio and tell her what they recalled of the choreography. … If movement and dance are in some sense ephemeral, in what ways can they be remembered or captured or recorded?”

“Garry Stewart, artistic director of Adelaide-based Australian Dance Theatre, has been named one of the world’s most influential choreographers in a scholarly study of international dance.”

“Every day at a summer intensive the possibility of being invited to stay once the summer’s over looms, and the parent companies often view the classes as extended auditions for their schools and troupes.”

“With hundreds of applicants whittled down to a shortlist of 50 – 23 women and 27 men – simply getting through the doors was a major achievement. But having got so close to what, for many dancers, was a lifelong dream, the pressure was starting to tell.”

“The company says its Out There program is expanding this year to reach more than 9000 students aged five to 12 in NSW, Victoria and, for the first time, Queensland, with interactive lessons that move from movement skills and rhythm to language and Australian wildlife.”

Eat your heart out, Bronx. Actually, Indonesian choreographer Jecko Siompo believes that all contemporary dance styles have their roots in the traditional dancing of the Stone Age cultures on the island.