Category: dance

The hottest thing on YouTube at the moment may be a relatively simple video of a guy dancing, “a big, doughy-looking fellow in shorts and hiking boots performing an arm-swinging, knee-pumping step that could charitably be called goofy… However you interpret it, you can’t watch “Dancing” for very long without feeling a little happier.”

“The Washington Ballet announced yesterday that it has hired Orlando Ballet Executive Director Russell P. Allen as its new chief administrator… Allen will be the ballet’s fourth top administrator since Artistic Director Septime Webre arrived in 1999.”

“Over the coming week more of the city’s dancers are being called on to generate yet more press by participating in the record-breaking activities dominating the festival. For example: performing the biggest ever Bollywood dance; executing the largest number of football freestyle tricks in one minute; amassing the largest number of couples jiving simultaneously; getting more than 191 ballet dancers balancing on pointe for one minute, and achieving the largest number of streetdance moves in a minute.”

“Thirteen years ago Shen Wei was a dancer, a choreographer and the founder of the Guangdong Modern Dance Company, the first of its kind in China. He was a rising star in his nation but craved to know more about Western dance than he could learn there. His movements combine Eastern and Western ideas, drawing from Chinese opera, martial arts, Abstract Expressionism and Western Modernism.”

“Organisers of similar large-scale dance parties this summer will be nervously watching the skies. Yet there’s also a feeling that dance promoters are facing other, less elemental pressures. Creamfields, due to celebrate its 10th anniversary this August, is hoping to attract over 40,000 visitors with ‘the most diverse line-up ever seen at a UK dance festival’.”

Two hours of “So You Think You Can Dance” made Fox the top-rated network on Wednesday night, as 8.7 million viewers tuned in to the dancing competition from 8 to 10, according to Nielsen’s estimates.

Baronova, an international ballet star who was one of three celebrated prodigies known as the “baby ballerinas” after George Balanchine discovered them in Paris in the 1930s, died on Saturday at her home in Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia.

“In the nation of Colombia, a dance troupe known as ‘The Body School’ is gaining widespread attention for helping members of the company to escape lives of violence and hardship.”

“In Lebanon, popular culture remains committed to folk forms like dabkeh and belly dance, while the middle classes – the natural audience for contemporary dance – remains emaciated after 15 years of civil war, civil unrest and migration.”

“When did they get stuck interpreting or trying to impose a narrative? When did they lose interest or space out? When did they grasp a moment of emergence of what O’Connor called a developing architectural form?”