‘I was not interested in the image of womanhood as it is presented by the media, nor in its visual aspect,’ says Vagnerová...
Features
Features and previews about Dance and Dancing
Latitude Festival opens next week (17th July) and features lots of interesting dance - Lise Smith catches up with 2 companies preparing their open air shows...
"Super - absolutely spot on" I thought when Tamara Rojo announced Alison McWhinney and Junor Souza as joint winners of the company's Emerging Dancer Competition.
Margaret Willis has been busy: in St. Petersburg at the Dance Open Festival Gala and 2 days later in Moscow at the Soul of Dance Ballet Gala. And important awards were given at both...
Two young NYCB choreographers have been out talking and showing what they do: Justin Peck at the Guggenheim and Troy Schumacher at the 92nd Street Y. Marina Harss on why they are so worth tracking...
Twyla Tharp loves Americana. She’s made dances to Shaker hymns and to the crooning voice of Frank Sinatra, and whipped up steps to the super-sophisticated piano tunes of Willie “The Lion” Smith. So it’s no surprise...
This month he talks about Japan, nude dancing and invites applications for JoJo - Oulu Dance Centre's co-productions for 2015.
For four days, over 1,000 young dancers from 35 countries competed – with smiles – in the eleventh TanzOlymp, a dance competition for students from the ages of 8 to 21.
At Monday’s National Dance Awards two de Valois awards were given for outstanding achievement in dance. Here are Graham Watts citations for Leanne Benjamin and Matthew Bourne, as given on the day.
Jarkko has just taken over as Artistic Director of the JoJo - Oulu Dance Centre based in Northern Finland. This month he starts to explain what his directorship is about...
John Craxton, the celebrated designer of Frederick Ashton’s Daphnis and Chloe, is the subject of an exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge...
Lynette Halewood with her personal selection of London dance memories this last year...
While some of the views expressed may not chime with your own, the fascination of this book is to understand how contentious maintaining and developing ballet as vibrant theatre often is.
Novels are treacherous terrain for choreographers. So much of what draws us into a book and imprints itself in our imagination ...is almost impossible to convey in the language of the body.
So what’s new under the sun? It’s only been a couple of weeks since the least posting, so you’d think there’s not much to report. A bit of this a bit of that...
Eighty years after Robert Helpmann left Australia and joined the Sadler’s Wells Ballet company, a Royal Ballet School symposium celebrated his achievements as a man of the theatre.
Someone wise once said that the journey is as important as the destination...
"Today I’d like to talk, rather than whinge, about responsibility and communication..."
The triumph of the Nureyev collection at CNCS Moulins is to make the many facets of his profligately talented, maddening personality so vividly alive still.
Juliet Burnett (a Senior Artist with Australian Ballet) is in unchartered territory – injured and offstage for the first time in over 10 years. We are following her rehab – Part 3: "Now pain-free..."