Tag: 02.18.01

While most dance companies struggle with paying the rent, the 11-member David Parsons Company “operates firmly in the black with a remarkable 90 percent earned income, and has been touring roughly 40 weeks a year. Four months ago, the company moved into a brand new building on 42d Street in Manhattan, affording it a 1,500-square-foot office and luxurious rehearsal space.” Boston Globe

Choreographer Jiri Kylian has spent 25 years with the Nederlands Dans Theatre. Indeed it’s difficult to imagine the acclaimed company without him. But now Kylian has stepped aside as artistic director. “The sense of freedom cannot be underestimated, and now I can talk to people from the position of not being their boss.” San Francisco Chronicle