PNB "is basking in the aftermath of successful summer tours" to NY and LA. "With almost 40 dancers on full-time contract, its own critically acclaimed orchestra and a thriving ballet school that serves hundreds of students in both Seattle and Bellevue, PNB has earned an international reputation." - Crosscut (Seattle)
Choreographer Christine Colby Jacques and director Wayne Cilento, who both were in the original 1978 production, are re-creating (a word Colby Jacques doesn't like) the revue this year. The challenge: the '78 Broadway staging was never videotaped, and there's not much footage from elsewhere, either. - Dance Magazine
Not only does the new labor agreement include a 6.7% pay raise and restoration of benefits suspended when the pandemic arrived, the company formally committed to hiring an intimacy coordinator and allowing tights to match a dancer's skin tone. - The New York Times
Sadler's Wells in London has announced the biennial Rose International Dance Prize, with a £40,000 main award for a full-length piece and £15,000 for a shorter work by a young choreographer. As with the Turner, the finalists for the Rose Prize will be presented to the public together. - Arts Industry (UK)
It's an emerging art form — inclusive dance — in which dancers may be in wheelchairs, or on crutches, or have no obvious challenges at all, and professionals often mix with amateurs. - The World
The U.S.S.R. filled him with dread, and his return brought to light one of the great themes of his life: he had set his own path away from the Marxist materialism of the Bolshevik Revolution, and quietly built, in N.Y.C.B., a village of angels and a music-filled monument to faith and unreason, to body and beauty and spirit. -...
Rebecca Haw had a bumpy ride before landing her permanent position in the ballet company at Dresden's Semperoper. Hoping to spare other dancers some of her troubles, she founded CODA — and business quickly boomed as potential clients flocked to the agency. - Pointe Magazine
"Choreographers for major network TV shows are getting paid less than the dancers. The entertainment industry needs a lot of education about how vital choreographers are, because ... they have no idea of all the things we do behind the scenes just to make a shootable dance scene." - Dance Magazine
"A judge for the Central District of California has dismissed a lawsuit by choreographer Kyle Hanagami against Epic Games. Hanagami filed the suit in April, alleging that Epic had used his choreography for the 2017 music video "How Long" by Charlie Puth without permission or attribution." - PC Gamer
Indigenous dance is always a way to share knowledge and teachings across generations, a way to know and express who you are, and who your relations are, past and present. For a small group of First Nations and Métis dancers on Canada’s west coast, tapping into cultural traditions has provided a powerful place from which to develop their own...
Arguably the world's greatest living ballet choreographer, Ratmansky grew up in Kyiv, where his parents and sister still live, and has been very involved in relief efforts. Marina Harss visited The Hague to watch him rehearse the United Ukrainian Ballet Company in its first-ever production, Giselle. - The New York Times
After our time training together in the '70s, Richard went on to join two of the finest ballet companies in the world at the time. He danced like a comet. And after that, astonishingly, he became a doctor. Ballet dancers, at that time, rarely went to college. You'd train about to age 18, then audition for a professional troupe...
"Female choreographers, on average, make up 35% of a venue's programming and 40% of a company's programming at all venues. On average, women make up 34% of venues' leadership boards. ... and 49% of these companies board leadership when artistic and executive directors are considered." - Dance Data Project
A dance show by a disability arts ensemble makes a critic muse about what information the audience needs, and learn new ways to connect. - The New York Times
Sonja Kostich, a dancer and experienced administrator, said she wanted to expand the offerings and attract a wider, more diverse group of artists to residencies and other programs. "It should be an art center for everyone," she said. - The New York Times
