Tag: 03.08.01

on Thursday at age 102. A dancer with the Ballet Russe and then founder of the Royal Ballet, Valois established ballet in Britain when the country had no classical dance tradition and became a revered choreographer, teacher, and director. “Her influence on the development of ballet in this country cannot be overstated.” BBC

from the UK dance community. Sir Anthony Dowell, director of the Royal Ballet described her as “one of the 20th century’s greatest and most influential figures in the world of the arts.” BBC

An apparent dispute between St. Petersburg and Moscow has interrupted the return of Anna Pavlova’s remains to Russia. Her ashes, in London since the ballerina’s death seventy years ago, were to have been sent back to her native country at the request of the mayor of Moscow; now the Russian Embassy has cancelled the request. BBC

Mark Morris and his company are moving into their new home in Brooklyn. The “sumptuous five-story, 31,000-square-foot building diagonally across Lafayette Street from the Brooklyn Academy” cost $6.2 million and is “a palace of modern dance, arguably the only one of its kind in the United States. ‘This is unusual, and it is also historic and unprecedented’.” The New York Times (one-time registration required for access)