Let's Dance: A Celebration of Ontario's Dance Halls and Summer Dance Pavilions
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
"So I talked to the team and to the dancers about bird behaviour, including my research on corvids [crows, rooks and jays]. I drew on examples such as the dance of the blue manakin, which, for me, is avian tango, and the Lawes's parotia (the six-plumed bird of paradise), which has a courtship dance that looks like a bird ballet."...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
The work of choreographers like Merce Cunningham is notoriously hard to document and recreate. When the dancers depart, will the dances disappear?
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
"In Asian culture, you don't have a voice. You just accept what everybody says." The star Bangladeshi-British choreographer, dubbed a "great new hope" of dance, still lives around the corner from his parents and claims he never stood up to anyone in his community: "No, because it's a form of disrespect. … I disagreed all the time, but it was in my head."...
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The New York Times reviews the dance piece The Art of Making Dances by Chase Granoff at The Kitchen : The performance begins strongly. As Kate Bush’s “Wuthering Heights” plays, the cast gathers around Mr. Granoff, who pours Champagne. Here, Joe Levasseur’s lighting works wonders, as he gradually darkens the stage until only two dancers remain. ( Gia Kourlas ) The Telegraph &...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
On Thursday evening the 92nd Street Y celebrated 75 years of dance programming with a gala sampler in its Kaufmann Concert Hall.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Nancy Garcia and Chase Granoff take historical references seriously in two new works being performed at the Kitchen.
The Arts Blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Over at the O.C. Deals blog, there’s a great discount offer: half-price tickets to see American Ballet Theatre’s “Giselle” tonight at the Orange County Performing Arts Center. Thanks to blogger Marla Jo Fisher for bringing that one to our attention. Review: Veterans shine in ABT’s ‘Giselle’ Other recent stories by Paul Hodgins on the Arts Blog: Post from: [...]...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Founded in 1989, Bangarra is now the flagship performing company of Australia's (and perhaps the world's) aboriginal peoples. "When you sit down and see a Bangarra show, you don't realise you've just been given a 50-minute history lesson, you just feel like you've been taken on a journey and it comes back to you in waves.''...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
He was "an international star in the rival Ballet Russe companies who stood out for his matinee-idol looks and bold stage presence and who later became one of American ballet's respected teachers."...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
In “Itutu” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Wednesday, Ms. Armitage drags dance a few decades into the past, with her combination of ballet and African dance.
The Arts Blog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Register review: Veterans shine in American Ballet Theatre’s ‘Giselle’ ABT’s production of “Giselle” continues through Sunday at the Orange County Performing Arts Center. Post from: The Arts Blog
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Tacita Dean's Craneway Event "records three days of rehearsals by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company at the Craneway Pavilion," a converted automobile factory near San Francisco, about a year before Cunningham's death. Alastair Macaulay compares the documentary film to Degas's backstage-at-the-ballet paintings....
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Tacita Dean’s film “Craneway Event” records three days of rehearsals by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in Richmond, Calif., before the choreographer’s death.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
“The Feast of Han Xizai” from the Han Tang Yuefu Music and Dance Ensemble of Taiwan opened Tuesday night at the Joyce Theater.
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
A. O. Scott: "[The documentary's] greater virtue, and the substance of Mr. Wiseman's particular genius, is the way it transfixes you with the inner workings of an institution you may not otherwise care about."...
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mlatimer | 03/10/2009
(March 10, 2009, Denver, CO) Choreographer Kristin McQuaid has a resume that includes work with stars such as Britney Spears, Prince, and Mandy Moore, as well as national commercials for Dr. Pepper, Jack in the Box, and Pepsi, as well as countless hours logged working in film and television. In her interview with JigTV.com, Kristen tells host Chelsea Latimer what it has taken to develop her impressive...
mlatimer | 03/10/2009
(March 5, 2009—Denver, CO) Taking some time from his busy schedule of working with professional musicians and dancers, choreographer Tony Testa sat down to talk with JigTV.com about his career, which started at the young age of 14. Since then he has performed with the likes of Aaron Carter, Janet Jackson, and Britney Spears. As part of JigTV's professional dancer interviews , Tony talked about how...
mlatimer | 02/24/2009
Master dance choreographer, Nick Lazzarini speaks with JigTV.com about his life as a professional dancer and offers pointers to aspiring dancers. As part of it's series of interviews with dancers, the social dance site JigTV.com spoke with choreographer Nick Lazzarini in New York City, where he's been teaching for Jump The Alternative Dance Convention. You may remember Nick as the winner of the very...
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