Category: dance

That’s the 2007 Australian Ballet Dancer Award. “They are judged not just on their dance performance and effort in class, but their vision for their career and the arts in Australia. It encourages them to think of themselves as an all-round dancer.”

When it premiered in 1957, Stravinsky’s ballet “Agon” represented the height of modernist music and dance – complex, hard to understand, and somewhat cold and aloof despite its layers of meaning. Half a century on, it’s still just as daunting, and just as fascinating.

An Alabama native reinventing classical dance in Paris might seem like an unlikely scenario. But Brooke Desnoës’s unconventional ballet school has become known for its “fresh approach in France that seeks to include not only students with perfect bodies but also anyone who takes pleasure in dance.”

“Fourteen years after his death and several decades after his best performances, Nureyev’s dancing has faded from memory. All that remains are a few videotapes and a mountain of carefully posed photographs. Yet his career is not likely to be forgotten…he was the first dancer to pitch his talent against the Soviet state and live out the consequences.”

The National Ballet of Canada is the latest arts enterprise to take to the movie theatre. The company will simulcast a high-def Nutcracker live in 69 Cineplex Entertainment theatres from British Columbia to Quebec.

Alvey trained as a dancer at the Royal Ballet School in London and as a teacher at the Royal Academy of Dance. She danced professionally for companies in Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Canada, then for 10 years at London City Ballet.

“I would like to be famous. I would like to be the first Palestinian Arab ballet dancer. My dream is to finish my education and dance class here and then to open my own dance studio, to teach classes for men and boys, and have a sign that says Ballet Studio for Men and Boys. Because they have never seen such a sign like this before.”

Connor Walsh is Houston Ballet’s newest principal dancer — and at 21, its youngest ever — is not just a star. He’s a meteor.

The St. Petersburg State Ballet on Ice has always been theatrical, even when the special effects were limited to whatever a rink could support.

“What is Butoh? And how has the influx of Western practitioners affected its development? In a sense, the New York Butoh Festival programs proved that Butoh has much in common with the current state of contemporary ballet.”