Tag: 09.03.00

The Kennedy Center is throwing a Balanchine festival, featuring six companies dancing 14 ballets. “The festival does not claim to be as comprehensive as the New York City Ballet’s yearlong survey of Balanchine in 1994, or even a collection of seminal works. (His first great work, “Apollo,” is not on the schedule.) Rather, its distinction should lie in providing a new understanding of the Balanchine canon.” – New York Times

Choreographer Matthew Bourne created a sensation with his offbeat “Swan Lake.” Now he’s back with a new version of “Carmen,” which he’s renamed “Car Man.” “This time I wanted to do something dirty, earthy, tethered to the ground. At first I even thought of setting Car Man in a meat factory, with carcasses on hooks. The dancers here are playing real people. It’s like rehearsing with actors: we argue about their motives when I suppose we should be designing movements. But my skill is as a director of stories, not movement for its own sake. I’d get bored if I was doing abstract dance.” – The Observer (London)

Nearly 70 years after she died, the remains of prima ballerina Anna Pavlova will be returned to Russia from a cemetery in London. – Philadelphia Inquirer