In dance, numbers matter. I’m thinking of two choreographers whose brilliant use of numbers are very different: George Balanchine and Trisha Brown. - Wendy Perron
For the 50 largest companies, the average salary for both positions is over $200,000, and the gender gap in pay averages 17% for artistic directors but only 3% for executive directors. - Dance Data Project
Just a year ago, Tanesha Payne created SumRset (adapted from her maiden name) to spread appreciation for contemporary dance in America's seventh-largest city, where it seems not to have caught on as strongly as in Houston or Dallas. - San Antonio Report
"'If I was in LA or New York, or even Hawaii, I would not be getting this award,' he said. 'There’s something special about weird and wonderful San Francisco that allows me to really think about hula on another level.'" - The Guardian
"Once, dancers were recognised purely on the merit of their performances as audience members didn’t have access to anything else. Yet 2023 couldn’t be more different, with attainable insights now ranging from pet snuggles to the brandishing of luxury leather goods (#ad)." - Gramilano (Milan)
"Electric performances, thought-provoking choreography, buzzy bodies of work — the artists on our annual list of dancers, choreographers, directors, and companies poised for a breakout share an uncanny knack for arresting attention, … turning heads while turning what’s expected — in a performance, from a career trajectory — on its head." - Dance Magazine
"With its unique brain–body connection, dance is at the very center of neuroaesthetics, the science of how the arts affect our brains, and therefore our bodies. Early findings of this still-emerging field are confirming what dancers and dance lovers have long known implicitly." - Dance Magazine
It’s not only that dance has been everywhere recently; it’s that dance is cool. Our lives are full of words — and words and words. Dance can say what words often can’t. It can be watched, it can be felt through the watching, and it can be a physical part of anyone’s life. - The New York Times
Dubbed Nigeria's viral ballet dancer, 13-year-old Anthony Madu's life has changed beyond recognition over the last three years after his dance moves and internet fame catapulted him from his modest home in Lagos to one of the UK's most prestigious ballet schools. - BBC
At San Francisco Ballet, the snow is made of thousands of pieces of thin paper soaked in a flame-retardant salt solution, stored in 400-pound barrels and dropped from four 150-pound bags. Two hints for dancers: don't rosin your shoes too much and don't breathe through your nose. - San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
The Italian-born choreographer was a principal at La Scala Ballet, created works for that company's ballet school, and founded his own company, Heliopolis, before working as artistic director of the Royal New Zealand Ballet (2014-17) and later co-founding the Sydney Choreographic Centre. - Calgary Herald
Li Cunxin, who found fame beyond the dance world with the memoir and documentary with that title, announced in June that he's retiring as artistic director of the Brisbane-based company due to health concerns. Succeeding him is the Queensland-born former Royal Ballet principal Leanne Benjamin. - ABC (Australia)
The six performers sacked by the company — a week after going on strike over the board's refusal to address unsafe working conditions — have formed the Central New York Ballet. They made their debut at a sold-out holiday performance in Syracuse this week. - CNY Central (Syracuse)
In total, the BBC has now spoken to more than 100 former dancers who attended UK schools from the 1990s through to the present day, and who all claim they experienced a "damaging" culture. - BBC
"DDP findings show that women choreographed 50% of the works programmed at the dance festivals collected in 2023, the highest percentage of female-choreographed pieces yet. … However, the percentage of full-length works choreographed by women was much lower than in the past, at just 36%." - Dance Data Project
