"(With performers) wearing colourful inflated suits and roaming across streets, parks and city centres, La Grande Phrase (The Big Phrase) is a dance-work series by Montpellier-based Campagnie Didier Théron that explores ways to upend stereotypes of what a dancer should look like or do." - ArtsHub (Australia)
"He is mathematical like Balanchine, but there's more of a lightness, an everyday quality that feels playful, even when the steps are technically arduous. … In honor of this peak Peck moment, we asked Peck and his collaborators to decode his artistic tics." - New York Magazine
"Twenty-two Indigenous dancers move as one in a circle with a man dancing in the middle. They call him 'el general.' Lazaro Arvizu has dedicated his life to promoting Danza Azteca, a spiritual Indigenous tradition from Mexico, in Los Angeles for more than four decades." - Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
"Adam McKinney, a Milwaukee native who has danced with numerous companies around the country, succeeds Susan Jaffee, who departed in December to become artistic director of American Ballet Theatre after two years in Pittsburgh." - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The proposal made Thursday means that venues no longer would need a license to organize dances. Instead, as a general rule, they would only have to register with the police, which can be done verbally and does not cost anything. - AP
Rouge et Noir was created for the Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo in 1939. Dance critic Ann Barzel filmed parts of the work in Chicago in 1949; that film, restored and synched to the Shostakovich score, is the finale of the Matisse exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. - The Philadelphia Inquirer
"Intended to help address the gender and racial barriers that prevent women from securing leadership positions, the free online program "Raising the Barre: Curriculum for the Next Generation of Leadership in Dance" presents modules that home in on specific skills necessary for various administrative, artistic and executive leadership roles." - Dance Magazine
It’s very hard to explain to musicians who don’t know ballet, but “One” is everything to a dancer — even though it may have nothing to do with the “One” in the score. - The New York Times
"She is already eyeing possible significant changes, like negotiating a more flexible venue-sharing arrangement with the San Francisco Opera. ... That would allow the Ballet season to be spread across the year rather than crammed into four consecutive months, logistics hard on the dancers and, Rojo speculates, the audience." - San Francisco Chronicle
McGregor, who directed this year's Venice Biennale Danza, shares comments and images from the notebooks of 16 of the dance-makers he worked with, from Merce Cunningham to Azsure Barton to Sidi Larbi Charkaoui to the indigenous Australian troupe Marrugeku to flamenco iconoclast Rocío Molina. - AnOther Magazine
Really, the courtship between Ratmansky and City Ballet — a new New York City Ballet under the leadership of its artistic director, Jonathan Stafford, and Whelan — was in plain sight. - The New York Times
In her 5½ years as artistic director, she steered the company through the COVID crisis and a headquarters renovation, and she hired more Kiwis as dancers and choreographers. She also dealt with personnel problems that culminated in the firing of her husband, ballet master Michael Auer, for bullying. - Stuff (New Zealand)
Jill Sykes: "There was remarkable generosity in the dance world towards an enthusiastic young observer, allowing me into the innermost work processes. I came across it in London and New York as well as Australia. I wonder if it would be possible in these less relaxed days." - The Sydney Morning Herald
Together, the company’s first-ever female leadership team will strive to innovate in ways that keep it at the vanguard of forward-thinking arts organizations while maintaining a passion for ballet that’s as lively as the art form itself. - Nob Hill Gazette
