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.
Wayne McGregor
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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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Paris Ballet Follies
The New York Review of Books (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Robert Gottlieb A scene from La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet (Zipporah Films) Your take on Frederick Wiseman’s La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet — a two-and-a-half hour documentary opening on November 4th at New York’s Film Forum—will depend on your feelings about ballet, about Wiseman, and about the Paris Opera Ballet itself. I start at a disadvantage. The more I see of the...
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Arts Ahead: What's On In London 3-9 November
Londonist (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Carlos Acosta in Agon. Photo by Bill Cooper If you're not heading out to a fireworks display in London this week, there are still plenty of whizzes and bangs coming from other forms of entertainment in the capital. Here's some recommendations. Let us know if we've missed anything too... Be There First: London Shows Opening The Royal Ballet is staging Agon / Spinx / Limen at the Royal Opera House from...
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Vanishing pointe
The Observer (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
The dance scene is booming right now. So why are male choreographers getting all the attention? Dance has always been seen as the one art form where women weren't just more visible than men, but were also in charge. From the pioneering contemporary choreographer Martha Graham, to the Royal Ballet founder Ninette de Valois, to the late, great Pina Bausch, the list of female names who have been pivotal...
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When Science Meets Dance
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
"Earlier this year, in an unprecedented series of intensive sessions, the cognitive science department of UCSD filmed, recorded, interviewed and analysed the early creative choreography of dancers from Wayne McGregor's Random Dance group. Cognitive scientists spend their time learning how people learn, if that's not a fabulously stupid oversimplification of their alchemic process: from relatively...
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And the troupe danced on
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/05/2009
When a great choreographer dies, does their work die with them? Merce Cunningham once wrote: "You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that fleeting moment when you feel alive." No other choreographer celebrated the ephemeral quality of dance in quite the...
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'She got the keys to your soul'
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Leading figures from the dance world and beyond have paid tribute to the German choreographer Pina Bausch, who died this week at the age of 68 Alain Platel, artistic director, Les Ballets C de la B For me, Pina's work was a trigger when I saw it in the early 80s. She opened a lot of doors for many of us. She was the first one to ask questions of her dancers and use the answers to make performances....
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Why Is Choreography So Male-Dominated?
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 05/12/2009
"The contemporary dance world has been accused of 'fawning over' athletic, powerful images of masculinity as projected by artists such as Wayne McGregor and Hofesh Shechter, at the expense of promoting female choreographers." Whose fault is this? Let the finger-pointing begin....
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Dance Review: Wayne McGregor: In London, Ballet Is Mixed With Opera
New York Times (Free subscription) | 04/28/2009
Wayne McGregor’s productions of Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas” and Handel’s “Acis and Galatea” at the Royal Opera House were ambitious but uneven.