“The composer and musician [Nitin Sawhney] and his fellow appointee Michael Hull, the experimental lighting designer, are the first non-dance associates the theatre has ever had and they are joined by Kate Prince, the choreographer behind the hip-hop troupe ZooNation.”
Category: dance
L.A. Hosts A Summer-Long Outdoor Dance Fest
“Now through October, Los Angeles’ two major outdoor theaters – the Ford Amphitheatre and the Hollywood Bowl – will be showcasing 20 different dance companies, each customizing the space to match artistic vision and practicality.”
The Legion Of Extraordinary Dancers: Hoofing Heroes On Hulu
“They lie amongst us, preparing for battle, waiting to rise and change things for good. Some are gifted in ability, others are trained to master it and some, some have it bestowed upon them at birth, but they all must choose.” So goes the voice-over intro to an ambitious new Web-based series. But “they” aren’t “traditional superheroes, at least not in the masked and overly muscled sense. They are dancers.”
East Asians, Portuguese Dominate USA Int’l Ballet Competition Medals
“Dancers from China, Portugal and South Korea received top awards Friday at the two-week USA International Ballet Competition in Mississippi. … The 13 jurors – each from a different country – did not award a gold medal in the senior men’s division.”
America’s Black Dance Companies Struggle Through The Recession
Fifty years ago, African-American dancers were very lucky indeed if they could find any professional company that would hire them. Since then, a wealth of black dance troupes – from the Alvin Ailey company to Philadanco to Urban Bush Women – has arisen and thrived. Yet the Great Recession has decimated funders’ endowments and made presenters skittish, and those companies are facing a more difficult environment than ever before.
Darci Kistler Talks As If Balanchine Were An Actual Deity
“The real reality is there is nothing in the world like being talked to and being graced by his presence, by his words, by his thoughts.”
Martha Clarke Wins $50,000 Scripps/ADF Award
The veteran dance-theater artist (The Garden of Earthly Delights, Vienna: Lusthaus, The Hunger Artist) “has won what is described as the largest yearly prize given to a modern dance choreographer, the $50,000 Scripps/ADF award, the American Dance Festival said Wednesday.”
Savion Glover Taps Into Outer Space, Leaving Music Behind
On his current show, Sole Power: “I fell into this thing about sound. I wonder if people can see sound? … To just be in outer space; not necessarily with music, but with sound. So it’s more spacey, more cosmic than a tone or a song that you can follow along to. It’s just sounds of spaceships taking off or stars landing. … I want to disappear and see if the audience can still see the sound that I’m creating.”
Bangarra Dance Theatre Gets Its First Resident Choreographer
Frances Rings, who has danced with the company – Australia’s main aboriginal dance company, and one of the country’s top cultural exports – since 1993, is Bangarra’s first salaried choreographer other than artistic director Stephen Page, who has been with the troupe for almost its entire 20-year history.
A Star-Is-Born Moment At National Ballet Of Canada?
A Q&A with McGee Maddox, a 23-year-old corps member who gets his big chance this week in Toronto in the title role of John Cranko’s Onegin.