The update is a little rough: Both of the musical theatre-trained keeper's jobs depend on tourism, and Melbourne has very, very few tourists these days. - The Age (Australia)
In the spring of 2020, mad with cabin fever, Jena VanElslander and a few friends started meeting every so often just to dance in the emptiness of Midtown Manhattan. A year later, her TSQ Project is still doing that, only with fully choreographed shows. - Dance Magazine
They became known collectively as The Five Moons, though they rarely appeared together: Maria and Marjorie Tallchief, Yvonne Chouteau, Rosella Hightower, and Moscelyne Larkin all came from Oklahoma reservations and, through the mid-20th century, had major careers in the US and Europe. - The New York Times
"Through years marked by mold infestations, financial turmoil, leadership changes and homelessness, artistic director Robert Hill was the constant face of Orlando Ballet. … In his tenure, … attendance has sharply increased, the ballet's financial situation is the strongest it has been in years." - Orlando Sentinel
"Farrell is the only dancer who could inflect solos with such a dense and bewildering array of ideas that I felt I needed at once to see that performance again to work out what I had seen." - Alastair Macaulay
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
