Category: dance

Want to save ballet? How about some lessons from the brilliant marketers of the wildly popular World Wrestling Federation? – Seattle Weekly

– with striking musicians. – New York Times
ALSO: Musicians vote to accept contract – New York Times 12/8/99

Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s new “Canadianized” Nutcracker has audiences jumping to their feet to cheer. Some critics, on the other hand… – Toronto Globe and Mail

Siobhan Davies was given four weeks to create an opening piece for the Royal Ballet’s reentry to Covent Garden. “While the Royal Ballet is badly in need of new ideas and fresh choreography, Davies was a strange choice. Barefoot, weighted and understated, her choreography is a wriggly, dense, slippery kind of calligraphy in which the entire body seems to slither in a constant motion that you can never quite freeze in your head.” – London Telegraph

Ailey successor Judith Jamison has become a High Priestess of American dance. – Washington Post

They may look glamorous, but the physical pain is the stuff of legend. – Los Angeles Times

Boston choreographers say their greatest impediment is money. – Boston Herald

Scientists who study pain say ballerinas withstand more pain than any athlete, even football players. New medical study reveals that every dancer examined in Canada’s National Ballet has arthritis from dancing on pointe. – National Post (Canada)

New York City Ballet is using taped music while its orchestra is on strike. For the dancers, not such a bad thing, maybe? – The Guardian

Hartford Ballet folded earlier this year, and many thought resident dance was through in Hartford. But Dance Connecticut has risen from the old company’s ashes and early signs are promising. – Hartford Courant