People described Michael Jordan's basketball moves as "balletic," and sometimes said Kobe Bryant "tap-danced" his way to the net - but those were metaphors. Or were they? - The Sports Rush
"This pattern of movements can be used by one forager bee to tell other bees where a food source is located. ... An international team of researchers set out to see if a similar system could be used by robots and humans in locations ... where wireless networks aren't available." - New Atlas
And the result is a viral video set in a beautiful environment: "The performance takes place in Swords Castle, an early medieval castle in Swords, Dublin." - Classic FM
"Hustle is fluid, fleet, as elegant as it is funky. A dance in 3/4 time, it moves elliptically through disco's 4/4 beat. ... Hustle offers a progressive vision of social dance — especially in its gender-neutral approach to partnering." So Abdiel Jacobsen is spreading the gospel of hustle. - The New York Times
"A century later, the animal dance craze — and the issues it raises around body autonomy and regulation — is part of the legacy of social dancing that continues to this day, embodied now through these viral dance challenges like the one to (Lizzo's) 'About Damn Time.'" - Zócalo Public Square
The idea behind DanceLogic is that "both coding and dance use repetition and combination, so using dance as a hook to attract girls to the program could lead to an interest in coding." Saturday classes feature 80 minutes of dance class followed by an hour of programming lessons. - Chalkbeat Philadelphia
DDP's latest report reflects the first part of the toll the pandemic shutdown took on the troupes — and it shows, yet again, just how skewed expenditures on ballet in the US are toward the 25 largest companies. - Dance Data Project
United Ukrainian Ballet, as the company is called, have set up a headquarters in the former Royal Conservatory building in The Hague. Their next touring program is a Giselle choreographed by no less than Alexei Ratmansky, with Alina Cojocaru as guest star. - Culture Whisper (London)
Most audience members – and most aspiring and local dancers – would be shocked to realize how little some of the best and most successful concert dancers in the United States earn. - ArtsFuse
The Ted Shawn Theater is now open again for business, half of its exterior wood weathered and historical-looking, the other half clean and new. (The second theater has not yet been rebuilt.) - The New York Times
The contract between Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and its dancers' union expires this week, and there's no new agreement in sight. The union is asking for an increase from 35 to 42 paid weeks per year and to bring salaries up to those at comparable companies. - The Arts Fuse
Yes, Serge Diaghilev was what we might call today queer, but he certainly couldn't be open about it — and neither could the pathbreaking dance-theater works he produced. Today, choreographer Christopher Williams has no such restrictions, and he's reimagined some Ballets Russes classics with queer elements brought forward. - Pointe Magazine
The Nutcracker and Coppélia were not originally the gentle, nervous-parent-friendly tales you might expect from the ballets. Indeed, Hoffman's original Coppélia story gets downright grisly. - Bachtrack
