"Given her age, it makes sense. But is it really true? 'Yeah, I feel it's my last production. ... I don't know. I have no more ideas.' ... But if Hellzapoppin' proves to be her final work, she isn't taking the easy way out. Her subject is a tough one: race in America." - The New York Times
Karen Russo Burke's decade-long tenure included a merger with the city's orchestra and opera company into the Dayton Performing Arts Alliance and has seen attendance increase by over one-third. - Dayton (Ohio) Daily News
When the lockdowns started, Lillian DiPiazza was a principal at what was then Pennsylvania Ballet. She spent the next two years going back and forth between there and the Paris Opera Ballet, where she's just gotten a permanent contract — at the lowest rank but likely to climb quickly. - Pointe Magazine
One of the appeals of square dancing is that it can be done anywhere; once you know the moves, you can attend any club in Australia – or around the world – and dance with strangers as if you’re old friends. - The Guardian
Saturday was the four-month anniversary of the school massacre that killed 19 kids and two teachers. At the library where the Joffrey dancers were teaching, "The baby grand piano’s ballad married with the sound of laughter to drive out some of the sadness." - KSAT (San Antonio)
"An influential choreographer and conceptual artist, (Lemon) won the Whitney Museum's $100,000 Bucksbaum Award, which goes to one artist in the Whitney Biennial every time the show is held." - ARTnews
"I want us to do everything from experimental work to some story ballets or reimagined classics. There are certain neoclassical choreographers I would like to bring in. As far as Balanchine, I am certainly a fan; I don't see the repertoire being as heavily Balanchine as it has been." - Pointe Magazine
Artistic director Eduardo Vilaro: "I need their personalities to reach the highest heights of a theater. I don’t like deadpan dancers. And musicality — you got to get down. I love dancers that don’t come with a strict technique and who grew up in hip-hop, tango, flamenco." - San Francisco Classical Voice
This introduction to the project and invitation for dance companies to participate explains the questions to be asked on the survey, how the rankings will be determined, and why developing a Gender Equity Index for the North American dance world makes a difference. - Dance Data Project
This year's honorees are choreographers Lucinda Childs, Kyle Abraham, and Dianne McIntyre; dancer Herman Cornejo, a principal at ABT; and historian of African-American dance Brenda Dixon Gottschild. - Dance Magazine
PNB is a vastly different company now than it was in 1972: More than 50% of its dancers self-identify as people of color (up from 27% 10 years ago) and the company’s repertoire has morphed into a smorgasbord as heavy on contemporary dance and modernist ballets as it is on old favorites. - Seattle Times
"Like the classic 19th-century ballets that display massed ranks of identically costumed, identically moving dancers, the rituals have shown us many military units from Britain and the Commonwealth moving with the kind of as-one-being synchronicity that is the dream of ballet directors the world over." - The New York Times
Robert Garland, a former DTH dancer mentored by founder Arthur Mitchell, was the company's first resident choreographer. He succeeds Virginia Johnson, a founding member of DTH who brought the company back to the stage after an eight-year hiatus caused by a debt crisis. - The New York Times
Modern dance in the United States did not emerge from a legible high-art context—a handful of individuals, mostly women, had to make their own, insisting on dance not as entertainment but as art, at a time when they had neither support nor recognition. - BookForum
"What I'm really hoping for is we develop our own style. A hyper-musical, full-port-de-bras style layered with joy, with beautifully coordinated dancers ... who can do classical and contemporary work. A style that, when our dancers are seen elsewhere, people say 'Oh, you must be from Cincinnati Ballet.'" - Pointe Magazine
