Dance Review | Royal Ballet: August Royal Ballet Bends Itself Into Contemporary Shapes
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Britain’s Royal Ballet presented a new work by Wayne McGregor in London on Tuesday night.
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The 2010 Tanglewood Season Listings
The Collaborative Piano Blog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
For the second year in a row, here is the complete schedule for the Tanglewood Festival , released one minute after the end of the press embargo. These listings are taken directly from the press release, with only some minor formatting changes made to the original text. The Mahler Symphonyies # 2 and 3 look to be season highlights, but I always have a soft spot for programs like Audra MacDonald's New...
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What Does 'Postmodern' Mean? Trisha Brown Reveals The Truth
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
"Nothing. (laughter) No, it was a joke in the dressing rooms at Judson. We were all naming categories of visual art practitioners and someone said, 'We were doing postmodern dance at Judson.' We all cracked up and no one countered us."...
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Dance Review | Trisha Brown Dance Company: Dance and Art Play Off Each Other
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
The Trisha Brown Dance Company presented a sharply edited program of Ms. Brown’s early works at Dia:Beacon.
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Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre, Coliseum, London Birmingham Royal Ballet, Sadler's Wells, London
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
No one ever put it more succinctly than Leonard Bernstein who, faced with conducting Stravinsky's juggernaut masterpiece, The Rite of Spring, said: "It's got the best dissonances anyone ever thought up." A half-century later, its brutalism undimmed, the work's polyrhythms remain a challenge to conductors and orchestras. To choreographers, though, the test is imaginative. Of the many danced...
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Celebrating Peeping Toms
Curbed (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
In what may come as a surprise to many, the Times reveals that people enjoy staring out of windows at their neighbors . Yatta yatta urban life, Rear Window, voyeurism, reality TV, etc. Here's the cool part: The accompanying photo gallery featuring reprints of artist Matteo Pericoli's sketches of the views outside notable New Yorkers' windows. For those keeping score, the worst view belongs to choreographer...
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Rite of Spring ballet and design
Classical Iconoclast (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
At the ENO, there's a new ballet of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring ( read about it in The Times ) Stravinsky's music was revolutionary in 1913, and so was Nijinsky's choreography. It almost caused a riot, as innovation often does. Everything about it seemed "wrong", heresy against all that was sacred in music, dance and design. Only seven performances were held. The following year the First...
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When Akram Khan Kept Quiet
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
"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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Can Modern Dance Be Preserved?
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?
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William Forsythe's Decreation at BAM
Wild Horses Of Fire (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
reviewed in The Brooklyn Rail: http://www.brooklynrail.org/2009/11/dance/william-forsythes-decreation-at-bam "Reading Simone Weil this past week before reviewing Decreation, it became clear to me just how unidimensional Forsythe’s rendering of Weil’s idea of decreation is. At times I want to cry reading Weil, whose pages offer metaphysical insights hard-won from her life of pain, deprivation,...
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Dance Review | Karole Armitage: Ballet and African Moves
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.
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AFI FEST - LA DANSE: THE PARIS OPERA BALLET (review)
forces of geek (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The Paris Opera Ballet is one of the world's great ballet companies. LA DANSE shows how a ballet company functions from administration, technical support, and classes, to the rehearsal and/or performance of seven ballets— Paquita by Pierre Lacotte, The Nutcracker by Rudolf Noureev, Genus by Wayne McGregor, Medea by Angelin Preljocaj, The House of Bernarda Alba by Mats Ek, Romeo and Juliet by...
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A Cunningham Counterpart To Wiseman's Paris Opera Ballet Doc
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....
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Dance: Light, Birds, Action! Cunningham and Company in Rehearsal
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.
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Master Choreographer Kristen McQuaid speaks with JigTV about her career in Los Angeles as well as the importance of cultivating an image
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...
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Dancer and Choreographer Tony Testa Talks about his Career with Dance Site JigTV.com
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...
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Nick Lazzarini Talks About His Dance Career With JigTV.com
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...