A group of 19 breakdancers, parkourists, rappers and family members escaped Kabul days after the Taliban arrived and are now in hiding in a neighboring country. Asia One, a California breakdancing star who's been a long-distance mentor, is mobilizing to get them out safely. - The Guardian
Among this blossoming crop of teachers and influencers, and the legions of creators making their moves into memes on TikTok, Angela Trimbur, 40, stands out. Underpinned by an intimate, self-revealing aesthetic, she fluidly navigates from sweaty group class to phone screen to ambitious project. - The New York Times
The pathbreaking choreographer once wrote, " He victimised the ballet artists when they left his company and tried by all means possible to prevent their employment by other companies. … To create one's own and to destroy somebody else's – this was his principle." - The Observer (UK)
Honestly, "most ranking systems are focused on academics; they aren’t designed to reflect the quality of artistic education. So do dance program rankings matter at all?" - Dance Magazine
Morris, on dance rehearsal: "It was horrible. ... Everyone was freaked out. You’re scared being next to each other, and you’re scared to talk to anybody, and as soon as you touch something it’s sanitized, and then you go home and take a shower right away." - Washington Post
A public Instagram account detailed dancers’ and staff members’ accounts of inequities. Amid the fallout, Executive Director Kelly Tweeddale, hired in 2019, stepped down in 2021. - KQED
"As director of preservation (and archivist), Norton Owen oversees exhibitions, the growing online resource Jacob's Pillow Dance Interactive, PillowTalks, pre- and post-show lectures, and film programs. Owen describes his motto as having 'one eye looking backward and one eye on what's happening currently." - Dance Magazine
"In a general way, I think men dancing has become a much more acceptable sort of profession. That change has had a lot to do with television and Strictly (Come Dancing). … There's been a massive shift, I think, in the public's perception of what dancing is." - The Sunday Post (Glasgow)
Among the major findings are that roughly two-thirds of dance professors (both full-time and part-time) and four-fifths of program coordinators are women, but two-thirds of deans of dance are men. - Dance Data Project
Olivia Hartzell, who spent nearly a decade at Pennsylvania Ballet and the Royal Ballet of Flanders and is now a PhD student at Harvard, has some ideas about applying the field of market design to some of the dysfunction in the recruiting of dancers as it currently happens. - Dance Magazine
The city of Chicago has designated 2022 the Year of Chicago Dance in recognition of an art form that is ubiquitous, burgeoning, diverse—and precarious. - Chicago Reader
Demanding your delivery person dance is, let's say, not great. "Forcing another person to dance for you is a classic villain move rooted in the folklore traditions of many cultures, these customers proceed to shamelessly post the evidence to social media." - The New York Times
"Screendance provided an attractive platform to explore new directions for choreographic works. … The challenge now, is how to keep going." - Dance Magazine
"On social media, it's easy to get lost in videos of this bygone athletic art. Clips from its Olympic appearances as a demonstration sport — at Calgary in 1988 and Albertville in 1992 — surface frequently on YouTube and TikTok, to the fascination of dance and sports enthusiasts." - The New York Times
