“Fosse” celebrates dance on Broadway. Is it any surprise that ballet dancers are wanting in on the action? – New York Times
Category: dance
CANADA’S NATIONAL BALLET –
– settles contract with its musicians only hours before the orchestra was to go on strike. – CBC
- Company has debt of $4 million. Toronto Globe and Mail 02/17/00
DOUBTS AND DREAMS
Choreographer Bill T. Jones kept a journal as he was creating his latest dance piece – a product of doubts and failures as much as possibility. – New York Times
COLOR ME DANCE
“The notion of otherness implicit in the term “black dance” insures that it has remained a loaded and highly controversial concept a good two decades or more after it was coined. Is black dance work created by artists who happen to be black? Is dance “black” because it draws from black Caribbean or West African cultural forms and traditions or black American social history?” – New York Times
THE OLD NEW THING
Sure the dance critic’s getting old, but “the really strange thing about contemporary avant-garde art is that most of it could have been created at any time since the twenties. Yet actually in the twenties, avant-garde artists were doing things that had really never been done before.” – Dance Magazine
DISC-DANCING
CD-ROM and some inexpensive equipment is changing the way choreographers create their work. And how their work gets chosen for performance. – Dance Magazine (first item)
SAN FRANCISCO BALLET –
– nominated for two Olivier theatre awards after London debut. – San Francisco Chronicle
MORE THAN TUTUS AND TIGHTS
Faltering Boston Ballet puts together a roadmap for getting back on track. There’s a large audience in Boston for dance, but for classical dance? – Boston Globe
- Dance is boffo box-office around the country, but ballet is having a tough time. – Boston Globe 01/16/00
DANCE TO GET PEOPLE TALKING
Last weekend’s “Boston Moves” festival of contemporary dance had the city talking this week. “Is that a reflection of Boston dance? Because if it is, I’m going to apply.” – Boston Herald
GETTING AHOLD OF MODERN DANCE
“The story of western dance is in part a tale of squabbled-over dichotomies: virtuosity vs. expressiveness, dance that emphasizes mute narrative vs. dance that presents itself as movement and form.” Today one can see (and appreciate) it all. – Village Voice