“This year, Canada’s National Ballet School (NBS) has the highest percentage of boys in its entry-level Grade 6 class in its history: 65 per cent. … According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, dance was the 10th most popular ‘sport’ for boys aged 5 to 14 in 2012, with participation rates rising in recent years.” And in Britain, more young boys than girls are expressing interest in becoming dancers.
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Inside The Olivier Theatre’s Weird And Wonderful Revolving Machine
The National Theatre venue’s “drum revolve is an extraordinary, five-storey, computer-operated double lift contraption that enables the stage to be lowered through the floor and spun around. And, because it’s split into two, operators can swap one half for the other without, in theory, the audience suspecting a thing.” Nina Caplan goes backstage “to see the beast in its lair.”
Royal Ballet Star Edward Watson Does A Pop Music Video
The project is the Metamorphosis star’s “collaboration with the band The Feeling, who asked him to interpret a song from their fourth album, out this month. Shot in an aircraft hangar in north London on Watson’s day off, the arresting video shows him moving and miming to the words of the title track, ‘Boy Cried Wolf’.”
How Dancing In The Movies Helped Define “Cool”
“The swivel of Elvis’ hips, Audrey’s zany bohemian dance in a Parisian café, Travolta’s uber-confident stroll through ”70s Brooklyn … Music and dance in the movies – whether it’s the frustrated angst of teens, the aloof gait of hip aristocrats, or the sexy saunter of a private detective – have helped to communicate to generations various understandings of what it means to be hip.”
Why We Need Sleep: “It’s Like A Dishwasher”
“During sleep, the flow of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain increases dramatically, washing away harmful waste proteins that build up between brain cells during waking hours, a study of mice found.”
Dancing Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale
“Adapting Atwood’s classic novel was a longtime dream of Royal Winnipeg Ballet artistic director André Lewis and American choreographer Lila York: the pair first began discussing the project about a decade ago.”
A Ballet About Crusading Computer Hackers? Yes.
“If you thought we already reached Peak Hacker, think again: the hacktivist collective Anonymous is set to hit the stage at Boston University Dance Theater in a ballet production called HackPolitik. Like, actually.”
Remember When Beyoncé Stole Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s Dance Moves? Now Everybody’s Stealing Them (With Permission)
Two years ago there was a brief hullabaloo about the video of Beyoncé’s “Countdown” lifting parts of the Chair Scene from the Belgian choreographer’s seminal work, Rosas. Now, in honor of Rosas‘s 30th anniversary, de Keersmaeker herself has invited fans from all over the world to video their own versions of the Chair Scene.
When Anna Met Uday, And They Changed The Art Of Dance
“Uday Shankar was a student at the Royal College of Art in London when, in 1923, he was summoned to a meeting with Anna Pavlova.”
When Jim Henson Was An Experimental Live-Action Filmmaker
The great Muppeteer had several career tracks during the 1960s, before Kermit and Big Bird took over everything. One of those tracks was making some daring fiction and documentary shorts, including the one that won Henson his only Oscar.