Though museums have long featured dance performances, today choreographers and companies are being given long-term residencies, exhibitions of their own with performance elements baked in, and site-specific installation pieces. - Dance Magazine
The troupe Chicago Moving Company has announced its closing, nine years after the death of founder Nana Shineflug. Meanwhile, Links Hall, a 46-year-old venue and a crucial performing space for emerging companies and artists, has launched a $350,000 "Lifeline for Links" crowdfunding campaign. - Chicago Tribune
A major ballet star in the 1980s and '90s, Bocca is probably Argentina's most famous living dancer. As of February, he becomes artistic director of the ballet at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. This was the third time he was offered the position. - The New York Times
Jamison was Ailey’s muse, as complicated as that word is, and she was able to bring his feelings, his ideas to life because of who she was. - The New York Times
Thanks to a major bequest from this past summer, the company — founded 18 years ago as a shoestring summer operation — has moved into a (slightly) larger venue, has a balanced $5.2 million budget, and gives its dancers an all-too-rare 52-week contract with livable pay and four weeks' vacation. - The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
The Fleck Dance Theatre, located within the Queen's Quay Terminal building at the Harbourfront Centre, will be shuttered at the end of next March after Harbourfront Centre management declined to renew its lease. - Ludwig Van
"Certain people found it difficult to accept Swan Lake in a new light," says Bourne. "There was some ballet snobbery when people would say the choreography was a bit repetitive. Anyone watching a classical ballet will know that the steps are often repeated. (But the) vast majority of audiences really bought into it." - Bachtrack
Stopgap, a contemporary dance company which integrates variously disabled and neurodiverse performers, has a piece titled Lived Fiction in which audio description is integral to the work. Partially-sighted writer Caroline Butterwick came to find out if description can work with an art form as purely visual as dance is. - The Guardian
Rachael Gunn of Australia already has an established career as an academic (studying breakdancing and popular culture), and the public roasting she received after her zero-points performance at the Olympic finals in Paris, along with subsequent worldwide scrutiny on social media, have become too much to put up with. - AP
"(This) which can mean adding subtle movement that never registers as choreography, or creating an unapologetic, front-facing dance number, or designing dancing that looks totally spontaneous — mostly without any dance-trained bodies." Choreographers Susan Stroman, Sonya Tayeh, and Sam Pinkleton explain how they meet the challenge. - Dance Magazine
"A pioneering five-year research project, Neurolive, run by cognitive neuroscientist Dr Guido Orgs and choreographer Matthias Sperling, … brings together neuroscience and dance to investigate what’s happening in our brains when we watch live performance." - The Guardian
"(Management) said it is working on a settlement with the National Labor Relations Board and ... the labor union representing 10 dancers who were fired earlier this year. … The news comes after the NLRB notified the dance company it would move forward with a complaint unless Dallas Black settled." - KERA (Dallas)
When and how it all went down, from the dancers' vote to unionize through management sacking the lot of them and subsequent legal action and public protests. - KERA (Dallas)
Her "refusal to compromise with movement that felt inauthentic (and) her instinctive pull towards the extreme and the subversive" were channeled into her first major piece, Hope Hunt and the Ascension Into Lazarus, which premiered in 2015 and has been touring off-and-on ever since. - Dance Magazine
The company announced on Thursday that Amy Watson, a California-born dancer who joined the troupe in 2000, would serve as its next artistic director. - The New York Times
