The Dance Magazine Award 2009 honorees have been announced. The honorees are Allegra Kent, Ohad Naharin, Sara Rudner and Jason Samuels Smith. The awards will be presented on November 9 at the Florence Gould Hall. Festivities will include five performance, special guest presenters and a post awards cocktail party.
Submitted by glvogelzang on Thu, 10/15/2009 - 06:31
At dawn on Monday a line formed outside a building at Spruce and 15th Streets in Philadelphia. They weren't waiting to get Springsteen tickets. They were representatives from local dance companies, waiting for a crack at cash subsidies. Funding was handing out money on a first-come, first-served basis.
The local branch of an organization called Dance USA gave away $57,000 dollars to help dance companies cover theater rental costs, regardless of the quality of the performance.
Submitted by glvogelzang on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 11:51
The vision of American Ballet Theater dancers warming up onstage for their big night at Avery Fisher Hall on Wednesday was the first sign that the company’s appearance in the space was something of an experiment.
Submitted by glvogelzang on Fri, 10/09/2009 - 08:05
A white plume passes between two young dancers in the Atlanta Ballet's rehearsal hall. Company members Christian Clark and Nadia Mara playfully hand the feather back and forth to convey the soaring love of young Tamino and Pamina in Mozart's Magic Flute.
Submitted by glvogelzang on Thu, 10/08/2009 - 06:35
Stewart Kershaw, the longtime music director and conductor of the Pacific Northwest Ballet orchestra, today resigned from his post.
Kershaw, a native of Oxford, England, previously served as music director of Stuttgart Ballet and Paris Opera Ballet. He has been with PNB since 1983. In 1997, he helped found the Auburn Symphony Orchestra in South King County; he plans to remain as music director of that organization.
Submitted by glvogelzang on Wed, 10/07/2009 - 07:08
The snotterati love to pooh-pooh Pilobolus, the troupe of acrobatic dancers known for their intricate human pile-ups that play with illusion and reality, producing elephants or sea creatures from bodies stuck together like globs of clay. The sniffing started when Pilobolus found a way to monetize its art (in TV ads, at the Oscars and the Olympics) in a way few others in the marginalized world of modern dance have.
Submitted by glvogelzang on Mon, 10/05/2009 - 20:07
The Idaho-based troupe, in residency at the Orange County Performing Arts Center, wants to engage new patrons.
In the old days, the ballet company would come to town, the theater would sell tickets, the dancers would dance, the audience would applaud, and everyone (hopefully) went home happy.
Submitted by glvogelzang on Wed, 09/30/2009 - 06:24
