It's all in the program's name: PORT, or Peer Organized Reciprocal Touring. Says one of the founders, "It's pretty simple. ... Org A hosts org B in their hometown, and after a period of time the roles are reversed." - Dance Magazine
"Many of the dancers who know Zvi Gotheiner best have never doubted he'd make it — perhaps slowly, but surely. In part, it seems, neither Gotheiner nor his dancers could allow themselves to consider any other outcome." - Forward
The accusations are by ex-students of former principal ballerina Dusty Buttons and, especially, her husband. Gretchen Voss spent months investigating the case: "I made breakthroughs with my reporting that I didn't fully expect, with consequences I didn't expect, either. The more I learned, the more elusive the truth became." - Boston Magazine
The amphitheater at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center was built as the summer home of the company, which, not so long ago, had a four-week season there every year. But in 2022, SPAC's first full season since the pandemic began, City Ballet has only five nights. - Times Union (Albany, NY)
Barring debilitating pain, dancers typically can’t stop working because of aching or blistered feet. They face foot issues every day, from relentless physical demands in footwear that may be ultra-confining, flimsy or nonexistent. - Washington Post
The public health officer categorized the socially distanced ballet as a “high-risk sport” and counted each of the ballet’s eight segments as a separate event, and each student participating in the various segments as a separate violation—maximizing the amount of the fine. - Pacific Legal Foundation
In both positions, though, men are paid more than women in the same job — and for artistic directors at the 50 largest ballet companies, that pay gap has grown since 2019. - Dance Data Project
A user screennamed @sibusheva posted a images of her skin before and after tanning, wrote that "fair skin in (ballroom) competitions is bad form", and asked for people's thoughts. That post has now been viewed more than 7 million times, and, well, thoughts have been offered. - The Daily Dot
"Part of a new generation of dancers embracing fluidity of gender roles in salsa dancing, (Audrey Guerrero and Angie Egea) perform and teach classes in Austin, Texas. They are known in the dance community as Angie & Audrey, a.k.a. 'The Kueen & Queen of Non-Binary Afro-Latin Dance.'" - KQED (San Francisco)
The company, founded by former Ballet West principal Derryl Yeager and his wife, Cheryl, was unusual in having as its annual cash cow not The Nutcracker but a Halloween production titled Thriller. Rather than undertaking a laborious search for a successor, the Yeagers are simply retiring. - KSL (Salt Lake City)
The director of the Birmingham Royal Ballet says it's because dancers leaving the academy haven't spent as much time training with each other as they did before COVID - and he claims they're just not ready for complex ballets. - The Stage (UK)
The ballroom competition was also for dancers with prosthetic limbs, and was the first adapted competition in the U.S. One dancer's parent: "It's nice to see the U.S. catching up to what the rest of the world is doing." - NPR
Luke Murphy's Volcano is "performed for an audience of eight, with each audience member in an individual booth." Sure, "it looked like 'financial madness,' but with Covid restrictions it 'actually became feasible' (because of support from the Arts Council, the festival and others)." - Irish Times
