"Around 90 students at the elite school, which prepares young people for careers with leading dance companies, will complete a series of strength tests as part of the study, due to finish in early 2025." - The Independent (UK)
"LGBTQ country dancing is quite old, a joyous four-decade tradition rooted in the love of the dance and the music. And it's finding renewed popularity." - MSN (San Francisco Chronicle)
Jody Gottfried Arnhold taught children in New York City schools before and after she married an extremely wealthy banker; she even created a dance curriculum for the system. She's now been training dance teachers for 25 years and has created and funded advanced-degree programs in dance education. - The New York Times
"The protests centered on vogue as resistance. The dance style, born out of the ballroom scene in Harlem in the 1980s as a source of joy and expression, became a response to a stabbing feared to be an attack on queerness and Blackness." - Los Angeles Times
"As at a disco, those standing can dance as they like. But they are also herded by wranglers in magenta jumpsuits with light-up wands like the ones used to direct taxiing airplanes. Wheeled platforms and runways are regularly rearranged around the floor area." - The New York Times
"So far, this has not been a joyful summer. … The Pinegrove Shuffle is an antithesis to the pink — albeit fun — universe of Barbie. It's about longing in the real world, which, on the day Lee filmed, was cloudy with smoke from the Canadian wildfires." - The New York Times
"One of the biggest adjustments for me was how everyone looks to you for decision making about even very minor things. I always want things to be collaborative, and often people don't want that — they want you to lead." - The New York Times
"The suit … accuses Lizzo and employees of (her touring company) of interrogating dancers about their weight and pressuring them to engage in sexually explicit acts at sex shows. It details an incident in Amsterdam this year where staff was allegedly pushed to engage with nude performers." - The Hollywood Reporter
"Tax documents from 2010-2020, which are the most recent available from the IRS, show that's an optimistic number, and in some cases, hundreds of thousands of dollars more than the ballet garnered annually in gifts in the past decade." - MSN (Louisville Courier-Journal)
"My ballet may not be 'good.' But I know it’s not bad, either. And even if it was, well, who is to be the judge? I’m an incessant perfectionist who loves the color pink, and who was fortunate enough to find a shrapnel of joy in something beautiful early on." - Vogue
"The dance is more than a dance: It’s an emotional release. ... The choreography is a passionate expression of selfhood, a tonic that recalls the vitality and athletic grace of Gene Kelly." - The New York Times
His teaching is the least known aspect of his work — yet it may be the most important. While there have been seasons when his choreographic inspiration has dipped, his performers have almost invariably looked wonderful. This is a tribute to how he and his teaching colleagues prepare them each day. - The New York Times
"Speaking in Beijing on the eve of the performance, artistic director Makhar Vaziev insisted the troupe was 'not suffering' from being unable to perform in the West. 'I have no doubt that one day everything will go back to how it should be because culture is a wave that is very hard to suppress.'" - Reuters
"His arts education charity, the Acosta Dance Foundation, has set up its global headquarters in Woolwich. Housing five dance studios, it aims to teach styles from across the world. … He said he located the centre in this part of south-east London because of the many locals with African heritage." - BBC
