Category: dance

“The troupe’s ‘New Wave LA’ [program] at Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center is heavily influenced by So You Think You Can Dance choreographers.”

“Some of what I’m really interested in is, how do we nurture young artists in the 21st century? How can we address the idea that having a company, even a small one, is so difficult now? I think that we need to start thinking of new ways to support young artists.”

“Bollywood’s global appeal may be greater than ever, and the deliriously glitzy, contagiously beat-fuelled dance scenes splashed across cinema screens have triggered much of its success. But there’s a thriving, live side to all the motion, too, and that’s why I’m playing the fool,” trying to learn some moves.

“[The] woman synonymous with Cuban dance is returning to the company and the Metropolitan Opera House. She’ll be there June 3 to celebrate her 90th birthday at an event that will include a film retrospective of her career and a special performance of Don Quixote.”

The Belgian troupe was “founded for a dare in 1984, but Les Ballets C de la B’s mix of surrealism, slapstick and semiotics has made them one of the world’s most influential dance theatre companies.”

“We were trying to deliver the level of work you’d expect from a long-established ballet company, but with a fraction of the staff. … I realised I was spending too much of my time just sitting in the office and worrying … It was a brilliant experiment, but I did what I had to do. I had to draw a line.”

“All top-tier ballet companies (budgets over $7M) in the U.S. are run by men. Of the next tier down, only four companies are run by women … This male domination of leadership roles is not true outside the States; England’s Royal Ballet, France’s Paris Opéra Ballet, the National Ballet of Canada, and the Royal Ballet of Flanders are all run by women.”

“In a general election as impossible to predict as the one here on Thursday, with many constituencies in the balance and a large chance of a hung Parliament, any pressing issue may swing the vote of the undecided. One of these issues is dance. Yes, dance … [The] subject has spurred a voting initiative and more than one political furor in recent months.”

That’s what the company is hoping as it prepares to premiere a new dance by 23-year-old Royal Ballet corps member Liam Scarlett.

Spain doesn’t have a tradition of ballet companies. But “when the state of Castilla y León came forward with a proposal in 2006, the Corellas jumped. Within months, they had auditioned some 1,900 dancers, of which they selected 45; two thirds were Spanish.”