Category: dance

Wayne Eagling of English National Ballet: “Ballet has never worked on screen for me. It’s always looked so flat. I wanted to see if it could work any better, and this is promising. … It’s good, very lifelike, almost as if you’re watching from the front of stage.”

Amelia Rudolph of Project Bandaloop: “It includes a whole different realm of timing and tempo when we work this way. Some basic examples: when you’re higher on the wall you’re heavier and when you’re lower you’re lighter because of your distance from the anchor.”

At the “Stars of the 21st Century” ballet gala, a Canadian event held this year, for the first time, at the Moscow Kremlin, four stars got the Ballerina-of-the-Decade honorific: Diana Vishneva, Svetlana Lunkina, Alina Cojocaru and Lucia Lacarra.

Wendy Perron, on an exhibition in Lyon devoted to Brown’s work: “Seeing it, you understand that … [t]here’s a direct line from her roof piece, where the human figure is set against the SoHo tapestry of roof tops and water towers, to her drawings of body parts. She has always created art from the human body.”

Mikhail Baryshnikov, Stephen Petronio, Elizabeth Streb, Terry Winters and Laurie Anderson describe their experiences working with the path-breaking choreographer.

“The course’s enrollment has exploded, growing from 53 students in James’ first class in 2007 to more than 1,000 in four sections this semester. It has become one of the most popular electives on campus, in part because of James’ irreverent sense of humor (not to mention his salty language).”

“In America, with the exception of a few male dancers, our ballet companies remain unrelievedly white. In reviews, blogs and at the Dance/USA conference that coincided with the June 2010 series, the question again resounded, ‘Where are the black swans’?”

“Acclaimed choreographer Graham Lustig has been named artistic director of the troupe, recently helmed by dancers Michael Lowe and Jenna McClintock after the sudden departure of Oakland Ballet founder Ronn Guidi in 2009.”

“It really does feel like flying,’ says dancer Brian Solomon as he glides elegantly through the air, thanks to the inventive imagination of the Swedish-born aerial choreographer, Sven Borge Johansson.” Johansson’s device is “like a highly evolved teeter-totter, comprising a 6.5-metre boom, adjustable fulcrum and crossfoot support column.”