Sarah Kaufman talks with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago artistic director Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell; Dionne Figgins, Eliot Feld's successor at Ballet Tech; UNC School of the Arts dean of dance Endalyn Taylor; and Carolyn Adams, the Paul Taylor Dance Foundation's new director of education. - The Washington Post on MSN
Dr. David Weiss, an orthopedic physician with the NYU Langone facility in Kips Bay, compared the runup to Broadway’s comeback to a training camp where professional athletes get back into game shape. - New York Daily News
"In theory, ballet, or any performance art could be an Olympic event so long as it can be judged and scored. … But does the Olympic adaptation of such performance — where the activity is changed to fit the rules — change the very nature of it?" - Quartz
We'd hoped that stories like this were in the past, but, with the Delta variant spreading and vaccinations lagging in Australia, the company felt it had no choice. No decision yet on November and December in Sydney, though infection rates there are even higher. - Limelight (Australia)
Newly close colleagues and friends, they have shared ideas, problems, strategies and solutions, and for the first time will present a series of performances together. - The New York Times
"It's a small part of my job to cover performances inside a theater. … My goal (is) to reveal that dance is in us, that we all have the power to appreciate it, to do it to the extent that we can, and to enjoy it." - Harvard Political Review
If the wolf turn was just about balancing on one foot, it probably wouldn't be in an Olympic-level beam routine. It's the spin that really makes this thing so difficult. - Wired
Dance psychologist Lucie Clements says we should reassess the value of "pushing past the pain": "You are risking more harm than good if someone is hurt or sick. … It perpetuates that you are not worth as much as the art." - Dance Teacher
The sport's governing body pushed the name change through in 2017, reportedly at the request of the IOC. The athletes weren't consulted, and many are furious that the respect they spent decades earning from the wider sports world may have been tossed away. - The Atlantic
Though they become a joke in the fifth episode of the show, dream ballets used to signal deeper emotions in musicals - but now they're seen as slow-moving narrative stumbling blocks. - Entertainment Weekly
It feels like dancemaking is entering a new era. By setting dancers loose in the open air, outdoor filmmaking paradoxically brings them even closer to us in stunning, intimate ways, using the unique strategies of the camera. - Washington Post
"The history of dance in Cuba" — from the Alonsos' national ballet company in 1948 to today's protests — "shows us how artists not only negotiated with the state, but also related to and drew inspiration from their … imagined national community to express themselves." - The Washington Post on MSN
The Moscow troupe has the famous 1,680-seat house, which he calls the Historic Stage, and a venue opened in 2002, called the New Stage, which seats only 900. Vakhar Maziev argues that the lack of another large performance space causes problems both financial and logistical. - Gramilano (Milan)
With all performances outdoors this year, the dance festival hired its first resident meteorologist, Paul Caiano from nearby Albany. And, since this summer's weather is unusually weird and the Pillow sits in an odd little microclimate, they really need him. - The New York Times
