"Performing has always been my most challenging point. I didn’t live for the show — I lived for class, for rehearsal, being in new choreography, teaching. My 'why' is so much more clear now. I don’t want the authenticity of my art to be muddied by anything ego-driven." - Dance Magazine
The clip drew heavy criticism on Fox News and in The New York Post. It was shocking to see something as innocuous as “The Nutcracker” stir up such outrage. - The New York Times
Born the year after Mozambique gained independence from Portugal in 1975, Panaíbra Canda, 47, has used his art to offer searing critiques of his nation’s evolution through the independence struggle, socialism, civil war, democracy and corruption. He also has taken aim at Western domination and jaded perceptions of Africa. - The New York Times
Greta Gerwig: Gosling thought "he would have a dance duet with his mink and that the mink would be fighting him and then love him and then fight him again, eventually defeat him, and that he would be birthed anew out of the mink." - MSN (The Hollywood Reporter)
"In theory, it will be a useful legal tool for all job seekers — and particularly powerful for artists. But in practice, it is likely to have symbolic rather than functional consequences for dancers." - The New York Times
Cynthia Graham, a principal with a previous incarnation of the company who retired from the stage in 1992, stepped in last month to direct this year's Nutcracker. She voluntarily stepped down following allegations that some of the current choreography for the Tchaikovsky ballet was plagiarized. - Ideastream (Cleveland)
"(Dr. Catie) Cuan has performed with robots for many years at venues such as the Smithsonian and Brown University, but her first public performance since graduation", this weekend in Brooklyn, is something else" "Breathless: Catie and the Robot, an eight-hour durational performance between Cuan and a robot arm." - Dance Magazine
"In (the treatise) On Dance," first-century philosopher Lucian of Samosata "makes two ground-breaking claims: that the body thinks, and that dance is the expression of a complete philosophy. … Only the dancer is not a philosopher but a ‘cheirosopher’, a coinage Lucian constructs ... with the addition of ‘cheiros’: gesture." - 3 Quarks Daily
The most charming and enduring tradition was the collaboration between the Oakland A’s and Oakland Ballet, which from the mid-1980s through the 1990s paired some of baseball’s biggest names with the ballet’s highest profile production of the year — bringing a marketing boon to a scrappy and often struggling arts collective. - San Francisco Chronicle
She and husband Johan Kobborg left London's Royal Ballet a decade ago; she spent seven years at English National Ballet, then became a busy, much-feted freelance soloist. Now, after two kids and the pandemic, she's producing an adaptation of Fellini's La Strada and starring as Gelsomina. - The Guardian
Naoko Kihara, the daughter of Japanese-Brazilian immigrants to Mexico, has been practicing hanayagi dance in the Mexican capital for nearly a quarter of a century and is passing the art along to students in the Japanese diaspora community there. - AP
There are two main types of visas for this purpose, but obtaining either is a complicated, time-consuming, expensive process. Here's a look at how two troupes in San Diego handle it with company members from Brazil, Japan, and Mexico. - MSN (The San Diego Union-Tribune)
Martha understood that movement was melody. Her insistence that she was creating art rather than a diversion often bewildered audiences, who wanted to be entertained and couldn’t make the imaginative leap into her landscapes. - The American Scholar
"In an essay that has been unearthed some 65 years after his death, Laban wrote of his 'dream' to stage dance in a 'kilometre house' – a gigantic dome in the middle of the countryside, 'a sort of oasis of movement for spectators and cast members alike' because existing theatres did not do justice to dance." - The Observer...
The half-dozen troupes for whom Amy Hall Garner has been making dances in the past year or so include Alvin Ailey, Paul Taylor, and New York and Miami City Ballets. Yet she herself went from Juilliard straight to Broadway and even performed for a time as a Rockette. - The New York Times
