Category: dance

That is the power of dance. Dance is undergoing a revival on Broadway and all-dance shows are thriving. – New York Times

– the legacy of an American from Bryn Mawr, and Cuba’s first professional dance company, celebrates ten years. “Danza Libre, a company of 25 dancers and musicians, creates modern work and preserves and retrains dancers in the country’s disappearing Afro-Cuban traditions.” – New York Times

Anna Marie Holmes is leaving artistic director job at Boston Ballet. Denies report in Boston Herald she was fired. – New York Times

• Previously: Holmes fired Boston Herald 12/29/99
• Statement from the Boston Herald standing by story. 01/03/00
• Boston Ballet director to step down. Boston Globe 12/29/99
• Driving force of the company. Boston Herald 12/29/99

“‘Peter Pan,’ presented by the Atlanta Ballet, making a British debut at the Festival Hall, is by Broadway out of Disney, and the delivery room was a long way from the Mariinsky. Eagerly bright, ferociously energetic, perfectly frightful in almost every way, is it ‘ballay’ for the tots.” – Financial Times

Dance in Boston has languished, but a resurgence of interest in a local choreography commissioning project sets up new hopes.- Boston Globe

Ten years ago the Alvin Ailey Dance Company was in the red. A decade into Judith Jamison’s direction, now it’s got the largest budget of any modern dance company and popular and critical success. “I don’t think there’s any doubt that Judy is the principal reason that Ailey is one of the few modern-dance companies that’s survived the death of its founder,” says Ailey board president Henry McGee. – New York Magazine

The Martha Graham Dance Company has had a rough time since its founder died. Suddenly there was no big personality around which the universe turned, no fund-raising lucky charm. Can former Graham dancer Janet Eilber revitalize things? – Los Angeles Times

Tracing movement across a century. – Orange County Register

The New York City Ballet musicians strike is over, but the issues were legitimate. Says a former board member on the state of the music: “Ugly sound, wrong notes, missing notes have become increasingly familiar. The musical direction has grown slacker and slacker – it’s no secret that the company has been unable to hire a strong new musical director because of the absurd rules and attitudes that have come to govern the orchestra’s performance.” It was time to confront the issue. – New York Observer

Has it come to this? – the Kennedy Center stage covered with ice and a “Nutcracker” atop it that would be better suited to the local municipal skating rink rather than a major performing arts venue. – Washington Post