Category: dance

What started as a jokey way to help fellow cast members share dance moves turned into an emotionally moving performance with 44 different cast members dancing everywhere – alone with masks on, in their homes with their children, near their dogs, and more. – The Hollywood Reporter

“In many ways, we’ll have to start from scratch. So why not learn from this moment and rebuild our community on a stronger foundation? Why not use this opportunity to enact the desires, the dreams, the radical changes that we haven’t been bold enough to voice before? Why not reevaluate the systems and structures we’ve long seen as immutable? We talked to 10 leaders from across the field about how they’d radically reimagine the dance world.” – Dance Magazine

Calories in, energy out, right? If only it was that simple… – LitHub

“To get one example of all that goes into self-producing a show, we asked dancemaker DeAnna Pellecchia of KAIROS Dance Theater to break down the finances of her company’s most recent full-length work, OBJECT, which was performed at Boston Center for the Arts three times in November.” – Dance Magazine

In the Ohio University School of Dance program, “students can specialize in specific populations, such as seniors or children in schools. The program aims to prepare grads for a range of career options, such as teaching artist, outreach coordinator, accessibility coordinator for a dance company or school, or work in the health-care sector or with seniors through social service organizations.” – Dance Magazine

“What is a choreographer without a stage but a sad clown of God at a time like this? So Morris has retooled himself as a filmmaker. … There is a certain hallucinatory, Fellini-esque quality to this scene, where a giant of the dance world struggles to master the same awkward video technology that remote office workers are using to teleconference. And where top dancers are limited to a few feet of floor space and bad lighting, using bathroom doors as stage wings.” – The Washington Post

“The former American Ballet Theatre principal and ballet mistress … will succeed Terrence Orr, who announced last year his intent to retire this summer after 23 years.” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Marina Harss writes about Jessica Lang teaching principles of dance composition to participants — all socially isolating at home — in David Hallberg’s ABT Incubator program. – Dance Magazine

So how do you dance with others when you have to keep your distance? Online of course, and Dis-Dance parties allow you to dance together from the safety of your own room. – The News Hour (PBS)

Theresa Ruth Howard: “In 2018 I wrote an article about how Instagram was changing the value system of the dance world. It took to task the hyper-sexualization of the body’s facility, the fetishism of dance tricks. … Enter COVID-19. … Literally overnight, the exhibitionistic nature of Instagram was sublimated from being mainly a tool of narcissistic self-promotion (to be sure, it still is) into what could be the highest form of itself: a tool for education, nurturing an authentic community.” – Dance Magazine