“The site (synchronousobjects.osu.edu) is both a research tool for exploring the structures of a dance and a wildly creative extrapolation of the way that those structures can be pictorially expressed.”
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Dance, Computer Animation, And The Ways Of Movement
By applying animation and graphics to the swirling, diving dancers in the piece, the site shows “how the action is organizing itself,” [choreographer William] Forsythe said. “We could never explain this until the advent of these technologies. Finally, dance is able to speak on its own terms.”
San Fran’s Top Dance Award Goes To Circus Aerialist
Two women shared the individual performance honors at San Francisco’s Isadora Duncan Dance Awards (the “Izzies”) this week. One was San Francisco Ballet principal dancer Maria Kochetkova; the other was Circo Zero aerialist Emily Leap. Keith Hennessy, Circo’s director, said this was probably the first time the award had gone “to a trapeze artist who did a three-man-high with two men standing on her.”
Tiny Dancers: Alberta Ballet To Present New Elton John Work
“The Alberta Ballet, which created a well-regarded dance to the music of Joni Mitchell in 2007, has announced it will produce a new work based on the music of Elton John. ELTON will be a contemporary work, choreographed by artistic director Jean Grand-Maître and his design team.”
It’s Not Only Writers Who Get Blocked
“We tend to think of choreographers as particularly creative people. That may be true, but it does not mean that the ideas and movement flow every minute of the day. Just as writers have writer’s block, dancemakers sometimes get choreographer’s block.” Martha Clarke, Emily Molnar, Pascal Rioult, Keely Garfield and Gesel Mason talk about getting stuck.
Ballet Florida Cancels Rest Of Its Season
The company says “cutting the last seven shows of the year will save the company about $300,000. The troupe also will cut its size to 10 dancers, instead of 19, when it returns in December Ticket sales are off 18% this year and donations are down 12%. The ballet cut its budget from $4 million to $3 million and plans to spend just $2 million next season.”
Another Loss For Texas Ballet Theater
“Andre Silva, widely acknowledged as one of the star dancers for the Texas Ballet Theater, will be leaving the company after the ballet’s last performances this season to join” Montreal’s Grands Ballets Canadiens.
Stearns, Lobsanova Take Erik Bruhns Prize
“Elena Lobsanova, a member of the National Ballet of Canada’s corps de ballet, and Cory Stearns, a soloist with the American Ballet Theater, won the Erik Bruhn Prize at the Erik Bruhn Competition in Toronto on Wednesday evening. […] Toronto-based independent choreographer Matjash Mrozewski won the competition’s new choreographic prize.”
Hip-Hop Dance As A Discipline (À La Française)
“Parkour is defined as the art of movement but it’s more about using the concrete block or staircase as a brace or vault to get over, around or through to the next step or block.” The discipline, whose practitioners are called traceurs, was developed in France and now has a solid foothold in the U.S.
Dancing With Disability
“Not everyone is ready for this dance company that calls itself Gimp and its members with undeveloped or amputated limbs, and bodies beset with physical challenges.”