Or, as the announcement puts it, he will become "artistic director laureate" in July after 19 years at the Fort Worth company's helm. Associate artistic director Tim O'Keefe will succeed Stevenson, at least temporarily, as acting artistic director. - Fort Worth Magazine
Australians claim American reality TV is ruining kids' costumes. "They’re wearing less and less and less, and they’re getting shinier and shinier and shinier – and more see-through." (But is that a problem with the dancers or the beholders?) - Sydney Morning Herald
And he gave it just as he has retired from the company, chastened by and repentant for the act that got him in trouble but still loved by the audience and grateful for his career. - The New York Times
As a private entrepreneur without official sponsorship, Diaghilev made his way with an astute combination of connoisseurship and the ability to cultivate an inner circle of wealthy patrons. He kept Nijinska busy making new ballets for the repertory. - Hudson Review
Laura Fernandez, who studied and then danced at the Mariinsky in St. Petersburg before becoming first soloist at Moscow's Stanislavsky Theatre, has family in Mariupol. "I would tell my friends in Moscow and they would say, 'No, it's fine, they're not killing those guys, they're saving them'." - The Guardian
Golden State Ballet first took the stage late last year, reviving the now-defunct California Ballet's staging of Nutcracker, but this week the company presents its first original program, a four-piece mixed bill including a world premiere commissioned from choreographer Andrea Schermoly. - The San Diego Union-Tribune
Although the city had repealed its Cabaret Law, a 1926 regulation that made it illegal to host dancing, singing or musical entertainment without a license, zoning law restrictions left many establishments unable to permit dancing. - The New York Times
What many of the 600,000 patrons who annually pass beneath its iconic red windmill entrance probably don’t know is that the Moulin Rouge is not quite as quintessentially French as you might think. - Toronto Star
Often a dancing body reveals a certain truth about a person, but in Jackson’s case dancing might have been one more thing to hide behind, like another costume; it was a place he could control his body. - The New York Times
It's a "miracle," he says, that a ballet in 1900 was notated at all, let alone that the notation survives. As for teaching the movement to performers in 2022, he says, "I very much disagree with the idea that the technique of the dancers is so much better now. I think it's just different." - The Age (Melbourne)
"Every day on the respiratory ward at one of (Bishkek's) biggest hospitals, nurse Aidai Temiraly kyzy puts on the music and leads her patients in the Kara Jorgo, the national dance. ... The session is part of a treatment programme offered to people with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease." - The Guardian
The players have their moves; the half-time dance team is a troupe of grannies; the ushers and umpires dance; the first-base coach is a professional hip-hop dancer. The Bananas, a fave on TikTok with 2.5 million followers, are the rare collegiate baseball team with a national following. - The New York Times
"What goes into transforming a work from screen to stage? What gets added, lost or modified? Pointe spoke with three choreographers to learn what made the process challenging and interesting." - Pointe Magazine
“The company is more racially diverse today than it was in 2020, when about 30% of the company was BIPOC. Racial identity should only be identified by the individual, but the company is currently about 45% individuals of color with five dancers identifying as Black or Brown." - Seattle Times
"I don't think we should be afraid of tackling complex stories and not feeling like the audience has to understand every second; one of the beauties of dance is that we get to escape into this poetic abstraction, even within a story ballet." - The Guardian
