Balanchine’s relevance to visual art is not just in direct collaborations and affiliations with artists in his lifetime. His formal gestures and patterns make him crucial to certain strains of contemporary performance art. - The Art Newspaper
The Royal Ballet principal was performing at Covent Garden one evening in 2019 when — alone onstage in front of over 2,000 people — his Achilles tendon snapped and he fell to the floor, howling in pain and seeing “my career flash before my eyes.” - The Guardian
Wednesday saw the troupe visiting the construction site for a topping-out ceremony, at which the highest steel beam for the building’s roof was hoisted into place. The five-story, 43,000-square-foot dance center, budgeted at $37.5 million, is expected to be ready for move-in roughly a year from now. - The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
“Over the decades, Chicago’s lasting footprint on Broadway has helped make Fosse’s style of dance instantly recognizable. With its sly head tilts, specific hand gestures, turned-in feet, and pinpoint isolations, the choreography emits a sexy coolness that is frequently emulated, both on Broadway and well beyond.” - Dance Magazine
“Dance artists often spout rhythmic medleys of noises and counts during classes and rehearsals. In a wordless art that lacks a widely used form of written notation, these sounds, poetic and onomatopoeic, are strikingly efficient at conveying both what the steps are and how they should be performed.” - The New York Times
Women choreographed 17.8% of the 891 total programs identified in the study, and 35.9% of these programs included choreographers of mixed genders. A breakdown of programming by format further highlights this disparity: women choreographed 30.2% of full-length works and 32.3% of mixed-bill works. - Dance Data Project
“The donation, from the philanthropists Lynne and Richard Pasculano, is the largest Lincoln Center has ever received for programming initiatives. Lincoln Center hopes the gift will help revive the city’s dance industry after the coronavirus pandemic.” - The New York Times
In Austria, teenagers go on YouTube to learn dance moves - but they also “attend multiple lessons at a dance school and receive a stamped certificate of completion after each session.” - Seattle Times (AP)
The nominations, for Best New Dance Production and Outstanding Achievement in Dance, are for the Toronto-based company’s appearance last October at Sadler’s Wells with the production “Frontiers: Choreographers of Canada,” which featured Angels’ Atlas by Crystal Pite, Passion by James Kudelka and islands by Emma Portner. - Ludwig Van
With local dance stores having closed, students at the Rock School were having to shop out-of-town for high-quality gear, especially pointe shoes. (Ballerinas go through a lot of those.) So, to both help local dancers and diversify its revenue sources, the school opened its own dance store. - The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
Ernst Meisner began his career with London's Royal Ballet before returning home to join DNB. When he left the stage in 2013, he became artistic director of DNB’s junior company; in 2018, he took the helm at the company’s school as well. He starts the top job in August 2026. - Gramilano
“The Stripper Guild was created by the Sex Workers Outreach Project of Minneapolis, which received a … grant in 2022 to start building a labor organization, … organizing for respect and better workplace conditions among strippers who have traditionally been more competitive than collaborative.” - The Minnesota Star Tribune
Revisiting Triadic Ballet, Oskar Schlemmer’s 1922 experiment with applying Bauhaus aesthetic and design principles to a very dissimilar art form. - Colossal
“They say a classical ballet isn’t over until the female protagonist dies.” Sure, OK, but what about the rest of the women/swans? - Dallas Morning News (MSN)
The decision to forgo tights was the culmination of a conversation about equity and inclusion that began at the National Ballet in 2020. - The New York Times
