"The Cleveland Ballet has fired its remaining co-founder after an independent investigation revealed the full depths of the 'toxic' environment dancers and employees have been dealing with, … uncovering a 'pattern of intimidation and retaliation against dancers and staff, egregious misconduct, financial irregularities, and self-dealing.'" - WKYC (Cleveland)
In 2016, David Roussève’s “Enough?” — with an accelerating choreographic phrase danced to a soundtrack of Aretha Franklin — asked whether dance can be a sufficient medium for considering the brutality often inflicted on Black people. Now, eight years later, that question is being answered in the affirmative on major dance stages around the United States. - Hyperallergic
From 2022 to 2023, artistic director transitions increased from 53 to 66 across companies, schools, and venues. Male artistic director appointments increased by 46%, female by 10%, while male executive director appointments were up by 157%, female by 83%. - Dance Data Project
Arguably the world’s most celebrated dancer and choreographer, De Keersmaeker has produced a vast body of work over four decades, from major theatre productions to site-specific performances in museums, forests or cloisters. - Brussels Times
A reporter visits the dancers for the Utah Jazz to see the elements that go into their work, from selecting members to costumes and makeup to rehearsal and deciding what movement will, and won't, be worked out ahead of time. - The Salt Lake Tribune
"(The company will) more than triple its footprint, moving its headquarters to a Midtown Manhattan office tower next year from its current home on the Lower East Side. The company will use the space to build more dance studios and expand its education programs." - The New York Times
Although Indian classical dance is commonly assumed to be ancient and reverential—and there is a documented history of devotional dancing extending back more than two millennia—all eight of these designated classical styles are modern, post-colonial inventions. - The New Yorker
"The seven-officer team has mastered hip-hop and salsa and is playing around with bachata and bhangra. … But what they really need is recruits to fill out a robust, diverse roster of at least two dozen dancers who can travel and compete against other groups, ideally other officers." - The New York Times
At the Australian Ballet’s artistic health centre in Melbourne, ballet star David Hallberg - who went to them, "broken," he says, in 2015 - physiotherapists and researchers use new, constantly refined methods to heal dancers and other athletes, or help them never get hurt in the first place. - The Age (Australia)
"I have so many things in my life that kind of fulfil what ballet has been, and ballet is still in that: it's the work I'm doing through my foundation, it's these incredible projects I'm creating with my production company, it's having a son." - BBC
"The Cleveland Ballet has severed all ties with the School of Cleveland Ballet, which was co-founded by its currently suspended Artistic Director Gladisa Guadalupe, and will now be launching its own dance academy in mid-January amid an investigation into 'serious and disturbing workplace allegations.'" - WKYC (Cleveland)
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
