Category: dance

Hard to believe it’s been ten years – Ailey company looks back on the tenth anniversary of Judith Jamison’s reign. New York Times

Musicians of the Atlanta Ballet orchestra have been on strike for months. The company has decided to hire replacement musicians so its “Nutcracker” can go on. – Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Two Ohio museums explore the influence African movement has had on American dance. – Morning Edition (NPR) [Real Audio sound clip]

New York City Ballet cancels opening night performance after musicians go out on strike. New York Times
And: Strike threatens “Nutcracker” performances. – Variety

New IMAX version of holiday classic is big enough – but a chore to sit through. – San Francisco Chronicle

National Ballet of Canada’s evening of dance inspired by pianist Glenn Gould was “one of the strangest evenings of ballet.” Program was daring as it was provocative, and audience members lingered long after the performance finished, discussing what it all meant. Toronto Globe and Mail

– as the 20th Century began, but this was definitely the century of American dance. A century’s end history of dance. – Boston Globe

One of “the most improbable dance events of 1999. – New York Times

It’s been a bad year for British ballerinas – there were fights on a Royal Ballet flight, name-calling that led a dancer to quit a major tour, and then the infamous posing by English National ballerinas in their underwear for a magazine. It’s as though “the ballerina, once the representative of what was most graceful about British femininity, was a fiction that no one could be bothered to keep up.” – London Telegraph

Three of Canada’s most interesting artists have teamed up to make a dance about a fourth. James Kadelka’s “A Disembodied Voice” takes on pianist Glenn Gould – humming and all. – Toronto Globe and Mail