Category: dance

“A German interactive software creator and a team of lighting and sound technologists track the dancers’ movements through an infra-red beam. The movements are then reproduced as patterns which appear on a large screen that dominates the performance space, or as sounds we hear. As in Glow, Chunky Move’s most recent success, the technology is part of the performance.”

“There are more links between Beckett and ballet than have been recognized. I cannot see “Footfalls” (I have seen at least four productions and would love to see more) without wondering if he was drawing on some memory of ‘Giselle’.”

“For one Broadway musical as many as 1,000 dancers will show up to audition for — at most — 20 spots. What makes a dancer or choreographer stand out among the rest?”

Can modern dance survive and develop, many wondered early on, without a core syllabus like ballet’s? The same question might be asked of Butoh.

Critic Alastair MaCaulay saw a lot of dancers for the first time this year…

“The fan site www.nutcrackerballet.net lists more than 300 performances from Colorado to Caracas. The New York City Ballet recently celebrated their 2,000th performance of George Balanchine’s version, in Paris it’s the season of the Casse-Noisette, and in Sydney the Australian Ballet have just completed a sold-out run of their lavish new production.”

Amid bursting fireworks shot high over the stone spire called the Obelisk, the man dubbed the Baryshnikov of Latin America bid farewell to professional dancing as he performed to Argentine pop singer Diego Torres singing Frank Sinatra’s trademark tune “My Way.”

“Wayne McGregor, resident choreographer at the Royal Ballet, has started work on a new piece looking at the links between artificial intelligence and choreography.”

“Working with too little support is the condition of most American dance, while companies around the world obtain funding from their governments. Some very talented young American choreographers have opted to study and perform in Berlin and Brussels. Living is cheaper in those cities, and support for experimental dance can be found.”

“The dancers — Taras Domitro, Hayna Gutierrez and Miguel Angel Blanco — defected after a double joint presentation of the Nutcracker Suite by The National Ballet of Cuba and the Canadian Ballet Youth Ensemble.”