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Misty Copeland Hasn’t Danced In Three Years. Is She Done With It?

"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

More Upheaval At Cleveland Ballet As It Severs Ties With Its Own Dance School

"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)

Dance As A Construct Of Time

For Rachel Bespaloff, philosophy was a sensual activity shaped by the rhythm of history, embodied in an instant of freedom. - Aeon

Dance And The Art of Numbers

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

What U.S. Ballet Companies Are Paying Their Executive And Artistic Directors

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

Meet The Founding Director Of San Antonio’s Only Professional Contemporary Dance Company

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

Gay Neo-Hula Master Patrick Makuakāne Says He Couldn’t Have Become A MacArthur “Genius” Anywhere But San Francisco

"'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

How Is Instagram Affecting Ballet Dancers’ Working Lives?

"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)

Meet Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” For 2024

"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

Where The Science Of Neuroaesthetics Meets The Art Of Dance

"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

Dance Has Become Cool Now. It’s Everywhere

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

The Rocketing Career Of Nigeria’s “Viral Dancer”

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

“Nutcracker” Problems: How To Get 150 Pounds Of Snow Onto The Stage In Under Five Minutes

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)

Francesco Ventriglia Appointed Artistic Director Of Calgary’s Alberta Ballet

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

Here’s The Successor To “Mao’s Last Dancer” At The Helm Of Queensland Ballet

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)

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