Category: dance

“First it was called Come Fly With Me. Then it changed to Come Fly Away. It’s [sic] latest title is Sinatra Dance with Me. Whatever its name, Twyla Tharp’s musical-dance celebration of Frank Sinatra … is set to open at the Wynn Las Vegas on Dec. 11 for a limited run.”

Helios Dance Theater’s new multimedia piece “mines the different mythological aspects of the bloodsucking creatures … . depict[ing] seduction, romance, death and nightmarish dream states through vigorous movement.”

During a Roman Catholic Mass in Khartoum, Sudan, a suspect named Hamdan Mohamed Abdurrahman infiltrated a group of liturgical dancers. He then worked his way in front of the altar and attempted to stab the city’s Archbishop in front of the congregation.

Octavio Roca: “As we speak, Cubans are very much in the same position that Russians were in the 70s and 80s. The Russians, when they left the Soviet empire and were going everywhere, they influenced dance tremendously with people like Makarova, and Nureyev and Baryshnikov. … Well, that’s what’s happening right now – it’s happening with the Cubans. … [In] the front ranks, in the middle ranks, and more important as teachers, you find Cubans everywhere.”

“Karina Sarkissova, 27, an award-winning prima ballerina at the Vienna State Opera, was dismissed when pictures of her dancing nude were published in local magazines. The Russian-born dancer retaliated by revealing that Manuel Legris, the ballet’s director, posed for erotic art photographs in the 1980s with both male and female dance partners at the Paris Opera.”

“Mark Morris’s choreography appears to be going through a seismic shift. The musicality he’s renowned for is there, but it’s less in-your-face step-for-note and more organic, rising from the score like vapor.”

David Lister: “First, the company simply has to tour in the UK. As money going to the arts is scrutinised as never before, what justification can there be for our premier dance company never being seen live by British audiences outside of London?”

The sculpture park 60 miles north of Manhattan – dotted with Calder, Noguchi and Serra works, and now home to Maya Lin’s Wavefield – commissioned Wally Cardona and Judith Sanchez-Ruiz to make site-specific dances around Stephen Talasnik’s bamboo sculpture Stream: A Folded Drawing.

“Brown’s ‘unstable molecular structure’ works are among her most distinctive, and aptly named: watching them makes you wonder if you’re watching particles of matter (dancers) or waves of energy (choreography).”

Five Slovakian men who had been folk dancers when young and met up while studying and working in Brussels, the members of Les SlovaKs Dance Collective create quasi-improvisational dance, wearing modern dress, based not so much on the vocabulary as on the rhythms of traditional Slovak dance.