Category: dance

“This fall, Ishmael Houston-Jones will revive a work, right before our eyes. Them, which celebrated its premiere in 1986, features text by Dennis Cooper, music by Chris Cochrane, six male dancers and a dead goat (yay, right?).”

The French city’s Gare Saint-Sauveur, now a cultural center, is hosting an exhibition of installations “for anyone prepared to question their perception of movement.” There’s a cylinder where two people can dance amid “a storm of polystyrene pellets,” a set of dance films made with heat-sensitive cameras, and a sculpture “featuring arms and legs from tailor’s dummies executing a mechanical dance routine.”

Two activist groups “announced the boycott in an open letter to the [company],” which begins a New York engagement this week. The letter said the groups were calling the boycott because of the company’s ‘collaboration with the Israeli state and its Brand Israel campaign’.”

In Sweden, “a robot swan is literally moving people to tears with a four-minute, professionally choreographed routine, dramatically executed to Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake.“

“Were Winston Churchill to describe the ’empire’ of ODC/Dance-ODC Commons-ODC Theater, he would say ‘Never in the field of modern dance was so much done for so long by so few’.”

At Coney Island this weekend, “[clad] in costumes crafted from plastic six-pack rings … six dancers will map the journey of trash as it leaves human hands and makes its way to the ocean.”

The artists and designers of the Ballet Russes “contributed to such a strong aesthetic that the ‘look’ of the Ballets Russes has influenced fashion designers from Yves Saint Laurent to the current fashion darling of the moment, Erdem.”

“Despite some sensational new works and great seasons with consistently high production values in recent years, the sector has lost its reputation for innovation, experimentation and, with rare exceptions, for renewing the 19th-century repertoire in entirely convincing ways.”

“The bath is a great place for inspiration. The Greek mathematician Archimedes discovered the law of hydrostatics in it. The choreographer Frederick Ashton also had one of his major lightbulb moments while having a soak, idly listening to the radio in 1947 when a new piece of music came on.”

“Those ethereal creatures at New York City Ballet, who communicate solely with physical grace and train their whole lives to perform in silence, are now talking to the audience from the stage.”