Dance Magazine articles from April 2005

Dance Magazine archives from April 2005

Curtain up.(Editorial)
April 1, 2005... Ah choreography, the love of my life. Ah choreography, the cause of 30 years of stomach aches. I loved dreaming up movements, seeing their communicative power, guessing which dancers would illuminate which movements, clearing a path through the...

Transcending ourselves.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2005... Thank you for "The Divine Within," the feature on spirituality and dance in the December issue. Ever since traveling to South Africa, where I saw firsthand how much dance has served to free bodies and voices that were otherwise repressed, I...

Living on dreams.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2005... I'm a recent dance studies graduate coming to terms with what it means to want a professional career, but I have to pay the rent. I was wondering if other readers have had experiences similar to mine, and if the magazine would consider doing a...

Curtain call.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2005... In recent months your choices of what to cover have been informative and interesting to me (as someone who likes to keep up with what's going on all around the country). Wendy Perron's upbeat "Curtain Up" column, her smiling picture, the...

Corrections.(Letters)(Correction Notice)
April 1, 2005... Matt Albiani should have been credited for the February cover photograph of Ethan Stiefel and Gillian Murphy. On page 92 of the January issue, the photograph of Pascale van Kipnis, Benjamin Millepied, and Melissa Barak was taken by Paul...

Quote of the month.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2005... "In my experience, I loved the give and take between idea and physical enactment with instinct sorting out the problems along the way. The body solves problems before the mind knows you had one. I love thinking on my feet, wind in my face, the...

Emio Greco: the body as object.(Dance Matters)
April 1, 2005... IN 1995, under file company name Emio Greco/PC, Italian dancer/choreographer Emio Greco and Dutch dramaturg/director Pieter C. Scholten started searching for a new approach to dance. Since their first collaboration, audiences have been both...

The Nijinsky Awards 2004.(Dance Matters)
April 1, 2005... WHAT IS dance to you, M. Balanchine?" a French interviewer asked the Russo-American choreographer gravely in an old film clip shown at the Nijinsky Awards ceremony during the Monaco Dance Forum last December. The snippet, in which Balanchine...

National performance network reaches a milestone.(Dance Matters)
April 1, 2005... FOR ITS 20th anniversary, the New Orleans-based National Performance Network chose Los Angeles to mark its two decades of providing support for established and emerging artists. The non-profit organization, founded in 1984 as an offshoot of...

San Diego report: another dance in paradise.(Dance Matters)
April 1, 2005... "I WANTED a supportive community where my voice could make a difference," says choreographer Grace Shinhae Jun. After earning her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, Jun left New York and found her dance mecca--San Diego, where the 29-year-old...

American Ballet Theatre principal dancer Ethan Stiefel will become artistic director of Ballet Pacifica in Irvine, CA, while continuing his performing career.(Names in the News)(Appointment)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... AMERICAN Ballet Theatre principal dancer ETHAN STIEFEL will become artistic director of BALLET PACIFICA in Irvine, CA, while continuing his performing career. Stiefel has named ABT principal AMANDA McKERROW and former ABT dancer JOHN GARDNER as...

Paris Opera Ballet.(Names in the News)(Promotion)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... The Paris Opera Ballet has promoted EMILIE COZETTE to premiere danseuse and EMMANUEL THIBAULT to premier danseur.

Miami City Ballet.(Names in the News)(Promotions)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Miami City Ballet has promoted PATRICIA DELGADO and CALLI MANNING (from corps to soloist) and TRICIA ALBERTSON (from soloist to principal soloist).

ABT.(Names in the News)(American Ballet Theatre)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... ABT will serve on the U.S. National Commission for the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as a representative of non-governmental organizations.

Limon Dance Foundation.(Names in the News)(Appointment)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... KARYN LYNN CAPLAN has joined the LIMON DANCE FOUNDATION as director of planning and development. RANDAL FIPPINGER is the new executive director.

Joffrey Ballet.(Names in the News)(Appointment)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... JOFFREY BALLET has announced the appointment of MARY DUPONT-MADINIER as director of development.

Washington, D.C.'s Dance Place.(Names in the News)(Appointment)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... DEBORAH RILEY has been named co-director of Washington, D.C.'s Dance Place.

Dance/USA.(Awards and Honors)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... DANCE/USA has received an initial $50,000 grant from the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation to launch a service provider for professional dance in the Washington, D.C., area.

The Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts has made $10,000 grants.(Awards and Honors)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... The Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts has made $10,000 grants to GERMAINE ACOGNY and KAROLE ARMITAGE.

Rebekah Rimsay.(Awards and Honors)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... National Ballet of Canada first soloist REBEKAH RIMSAY has won the 2nd annual William Marrie Award for Dramatic Achievement.

Lula Washington.(Awards and Honors)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Choreographer LULA WASHINGTON took a Minerva Award from the California Governor's Conference for Women and Families.

Viktor Kabaniaev won First Laureate for his White Light.(Awards and Honors)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... VIKTOR KABANIAEV won First Laureate for his White Light, at the 3rd International Serge Diaghilev Competition of Choreographic Art in Gdynia, Poland.

The 2005 Hong Kong Dance Awards recipients.(Awards and Honors)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... The 2005 Hong Kong Dance Awards recipients are CCDC Dance Centre, Virginia Chv, Nobuo Fujino, Hong Kong Ballet Group, Ke ZhiYong, Aaron Kwok, Kim Lee, Willy Tsao, Ma Bo, Li Hanzhong, Daniel Yeung, and Yeung Wai Mei.

A tale of two Marthas.(New York Notebook)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... NY She was named after Martha Graham, and now she's choreographed the Graham company's first commission under the leadership of Christine Dakin and Terese Capucilli. Martha Clarke is the reigning doyenne of American dance theater, a maker of...

Celestial dances.(New York Notebook)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... NY Traditional Cambodian dance gets a contemporary twist when dancers and musicians from The Royal University of Fine Arts, Phnom Penh, perform at The Joyce April 20-24. The evening opens with an ancient dance drama, The God of Thunder and the...

Oy, Vaudeville.(New York Notebook)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... NY During the Jewish mafia's prohibition-era heyday, a shlammer was a thug who let his fists do the talking. In Dan Froot's Shlammer, at Dance Theater Workshop, March 30-April 2, New York mobster-cum-Catskill-circuit star "Daddy" Kleinman...

Advice for dancers.
April 1, 2005... MY HIP HAS BEEN HURTING OFF AND ON FOR THE LAST YEAR. I WASN'T WORRIED AT FIRST BECAUSE I COULD PERFORM ALL MY ROLES. THE PROBLEM IS I HAVE TO BABY IT IN CLASS BY BACKING OFF CERTAIN STEPS. IS THERE ANY WAY TO TELL HOW LONG IS TOO LONG WHEN...

Health and Fitness: stretching it: what's your limit?
April 1, 2005... RECENTLY a professional dancer in his 20s called for advice on his back pain. When I saw him, it became clear the problem wasn't his back. He didn't have the core strength to perform his roles; his pelvis was too loose and his inner thighs too...

A beautiful mind: never tired of challenges, Trisha Brown soars from edgy, gravity-bending work to the classical purity of Paris opera ballet, as the Trisha Brown Dance Company celebrates its 35th anniversary.
April 1, 2005... Imagine being wound tight like a corkscrew and suddenly your arms fling open, propelling you on a careening arc that lands you smack into your partner's left shoulder. Take a moment to settle, then a sideways jump, and off you go, in and out of...

Flying in a new galaxy: Trisha Brown at the Paris Opera ballet.
April 1, 2005... With her arms spread wide, Aurelie Dupont is held aloft, parallel to the ground, against a backdrop of night stars. Manuel Legris and Nicolas Le Riche turn her around her axis like a slow-moving rotisserie. With Laurie Anderson's score and its...

The pied piper of Toronto: marching to his own beat, choreographer and artistic director James Kudelka has brought The National Ballet of Canada into the 21st century with a shrewd blend of artistry and innovation.
April 1, 2005... James Kudelka, now in his ninth season as artistic director of The National Ballet of Canada, has transformed a company once known for its stately productions of the classics into a dynamic, risk-taking, forward-looking troupe. At the core a...

Lassoing the moon: choreographers' candid answers to where they get their ideas and how they like to collaborate.
April 1, 2005... LASSOING THE MOON QUESTIONS FOR CHOREOGRAPHERS Some choreographers have their own companies; some work on a freelance basis. Some are resident choreographers with a ballet company; others do some combination of the above. DANCE MAGAZINE...

Survive & conquer: neither a catastrophic injury nor years without a promotion in ABT's corps could stop Elizabeth Gaither from becoming a principal--and an artist.
April 1, 2005... In the last few moments of The Washington Ballet's Giselle, Elizabeth Gaither wraps her tinsel-thin arms around her partner and then slowly drifts away. She melts into each detail, every placement of her foot and turn of her head softer than...

Ouch! Five common dance injuries & how to treat them.
April 1, 2005... DOCTORS, PHYSICAL THERAPISTS AND DANCERS SHARE THEIR HEALING TIPS. WITH OVER 600 MUSCLES, 206 bones and countless nerves, ligaments, and tendons in the body, it's almost impossible for dancers to escape getting injured. Acute injuries, such...

If you build it they will dance.(DM Style)(dance studio and exercise equipment (9 products))
April 1, 2005... A studio is more than just the open space in which you dance or instruct; it's a sanctuary-where movement is born and expression is nurtured. It's also where you spend countless hours focusing on your body. While a resilient floor, sturdy...

The Art of Pointework.(Step by step: DVDs and videos that navigate the learning curve)(Digital Video Disk)(Video Recording Review)
April 1, 2005... The Art of Pointework Ballet Dynamics. Four DVDs. 216 mins. $199.80. A trademark of Finis Jhung's teaching over the years has been his holistic approach. The Pointework series emphasizes not only the arches and legs, but also the dancers'...

Active Isolated Flexibility.(Step by step: DVDs and videos that navigate the learning curve.)(Video Recording Review)
April 1, 2005... Active Isolated Flexibility Tezoro Productions. DVD, 108 mins. $49.95. Active-Isolated Strength Program. DVD, 62 rains. $49.95. In the last decade, our knowledge about strength training and flexibility has grown by leaps and bounds. Today,...

Jose Limon Technique: Taught by Daniel Lewis.(Step by step: DVDs and videos that navigate the learning curve.)(Video Recording Review)
April 1, 2005... Jose Limon Technique: Taught by Daniel Lewis Dance Horizons. VHS. 50 mins. $40. Jose Limon said, "American dance is not merely a style or idiom. It is a potent idea. When its contemporary personalities retire, the idea will persist."...

Om Yoga: Beginner-Intermediate Class, with Cyndi Lee.(Step by step: DVDs and videos that navigate the learning curve.)(Digital Video Disk)(Video Recording Review)
April 1, 2005... Om Yoga: Beginner-Intermediate Class, with Cyndi Lee Dharma Moon. DVD. 213 mins. $15.99. Cyndi Lee, who founded the Om Yoga center in Manhattan after years as a choreographer and performer, has created an approach that fuses this...

Can choreography be taught? Ask five teachers and you'll get five answers. .(Teach-Learn Connection)(ballet)
April 1, 2005... AT THE NATIONAL BALLET SCHOOL of Canada, a group of 9 to 14-year-olds take turns presenting their choreography to an informal audience of parents, other students, and teachers. The children, however tentative, seem to take joy in participating...

Celebrating National Dance Week.(Studio Talk)
April 1, 2005... MILE HIGH DANCING "Fifty-plus years in business gets you a pretty good Rolodex!" laughs Gwen Bowen of Bowen's School of Dance Arts, explaining how she persuaded the Denver Public Schools to host free dance classes for nearly 500 students...

Frank Hatchett.(Limelight)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Jazz teacher Frank Hatchett doesn't mince words. Not about his devotion to teaching and not about what today's jazz dancers need. "I don't care if you want to be a hoochie-coochie dancer. Your foundation is still ballet," he says. From...

Teacher's wisdom: Betty Jones.(This Month)(Interview)
April 1, 2005... In 1947, Betty Jones became a founding member and principal dancer of the Jose Limon Dance Company, creating roles such as Desdemona opposite Limon's Moor in his classic work, The Moor's Pavane. She danced in the company for 20 years. And for...

On the rise: Victoria Jaiani: how a teenager from the former Soviet republic of Georgia took her chances in the West, carving out a career and a better life.
April 1, 2005... You can easily appreciate the exquisite, understated dancing of 19-year-old Victoria Jaiani--a member of the Joffrey Ballet since the summer of 2003--without knowing anything about the chaotic recent history of the former Soviet republic of...

On Broadway: can Fosse's Sweet Charity still lure audiences without his signature choreography?
April 1, 2005... Iconic. Iconic. Iconic. No matter whom you ask about Bob Fosse's choreography for tire original production of Sweet Charity, that word will come up--particularly in relation to "Big Spender," the, er, iconic number in which the taxi dancers of...

Alvin Alley American Dance Theater.
April 1, 2005... ALVIN ALLEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER CITY CENTER, NEW YORK, NY DECEMBER 1, 2004-JANUARY 2, 2005 The passionate, exuberant dancing of the Ailey company in the premiere of Love Stories exemplified the mood of this season, one that celebrated...

Classical Savion.(CLASSICAL SAVION JOYCE THEATER)
April 1, 2005... CLASSICAL SAVION JOYCE THEATER, NEW YORK, NY JANUARY 4-23, 2005 Savion Glover conquered new turf in his latest charge of the tap brigade. He is not the first tapper to hoof to the classics, but he may be the most original. Armed with his...

Caitlin Corbett Dance Company.
April 1, 2005... CAITLIN CORBETT DANCE COMPANY TOWER AUDITORIUM, COLLEGE OF ART, BOSTON, MA DECEMBER 3-4, 2004 A 20th-anniversary concert is by definition a blast from the past; the surprise in Caitlin Corbett's celebration was how the program's four...

Wally Cardona Quartet.
April 1, 2005... WALLY CARDONA QUARTET DANCE THEATER WORKSHOP, NY, NY JANUARY 10-15, 2005 Wally Cardona worked reductively in a new piece titled Him, There, Them, removing production elements in each of three sections--a scenic decrescendo. "Him" literally...

Preview: Spectrum Dance Theater.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Spectrum artistic director Donald Byrd is known for his darkly aggressive contemporary works, but he has also deconstructed ballets from the classical repertory, including Giselle and The Nutcracker, and now Sleeping Beauty. He takes the work...

Preview: Ballet Austin.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Artistic director Stephen Mills' world premiere, Light/The Holocaust and Humanity Project, touches themes of persecution, racism, and the indomitable human spirit. The contemporary ballet mixes bare feet with raw, athletic moves to portray...

Preview: Festival Ballet.
April 1, 2005... When artistic director Mihailo Djuric of Festival Ballet Providence slated Carmen for the 2003 season, he wanted "something fresh" to revitalize the oft-done tale. He turned to Boston Ballet senior artist Viktor Plotnikov, who devised a Carmen...

JAZZDANCE by Danny Buraczeski closes its doors.(Endpoint)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... From its first performance in 1979 at St. Clements Church in New York City to its final performances this month at the Southern Theater in Minneapolis, JAZZDANCE by Danny Buraczeski has been a vital, exuberant force on the contemporary American...

Deaths.(Obituary)
April 1, 2005... Margaret Taylor Doane, sacred dance pioneer, died in October at the age of 96. During her lifetime, Doane led many dance choirs, choreographed, taught, wrote nine books and edited three on dance and worship, and served the Sacred Dance Guild as...

Schools, studios, colleges, universities, companies, teachers, dancers, choreographers, somatic practices, movement arts, dance medicine, yoga.(Dance Finder)(Directory)
April 1, 2005... United States ALABAMA ALABAMA BALLET Wes Chapman, Artistic Director Alice Cox, Director of External Affairs 2726 1st Avenue South, Birmingham, AL 35233 (205) 322-4300; Fax (205) 322-4444 www.alabamaballet.org ALABAMA DANCE THEATRE...

Aging gracefully.(A Career & Learning Resource Guide)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... "Although we're small, we're mighty," artistic director Erich Yetter says of the eight-member Peoria Ballet, which turned 40 this year. The company's anniversary gala on April 23 will feature something old and something new: a revival of Les...

Attitudes.(choreography)
April 1, 2005... WHAT IS choreography? Webster--who should have known a bit about definitions--graces his (rather old-fashioned) and well-thumbed dictionary with three: ballet dancing; the arrangement, especially the written notation, of the movements of a...