Dance Magazine articles from January 2003

Dance Magazine archives from January 2003

Resolutions. (Starting Here).(what is important to Dance Magazine)(Editorial)
January 1, 2003... Makeovers are tricky things; they are alluring and provocative because they're something new, and at the same time somehow disquieting because they're something new. Psychologists tell us that change, however welcome, is also unfamiliar and...

Embattled garden. (News).(Royal Ballet's artistic director Ross Stretton resigns)
January 1, 2003... If it hits the BBC news bulletins in Britain, it's a hot story. This one did, and it turned out to be sizzling. The news that The Royal Ballet's artistic director had resigned in September, just a few weeks into the new season, set balletomanes...

Calendar: January.(Calendar)
January 1, 2003... PHOENIX, ARIZONA Jan. 1-3 Mickey's Big Event, Symphony Hall, 225 E Adams; 602/381-1096, 602/381-0189 SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA Jan. 13-23 Robert Moses' Kin, Fort Mason Center Bldg A; Buchanan & Marina Blvd.; 415/441-3400 ...

Advice for dancers.(Column)
January 1, 2003... THE PEOPLE I LIVE WITH ARE DRIVING ME NUTS! NEITHER OF THEM ARE DANCERS OR EVEN WORK OUT AT THE GYM SO THEY DON'T GET TIRED BEFORE 1:00 A.M. THEY TRY TO LET ME SLEEP BY KEEPING THEIR VOICES LOW, BUT I WAKE UP ANYWAY AND AM EXHAUSTED THE NEXT...

Burlesque, alive and kicking. (News).(Tease-O-Rama 2002 convention)
January 1, 2003... If you want to be a burlesque dancer, there are a few things you should know. First, invest in a hot-glue gun: It's an essential tool for crafting pasties and affixing feathers to headdresses. Your gloves should be removed slowly, one finger at...

Where's the Irish? (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2003... Ballet isn't the only dance form out there. I heard that DANCE MAGIZINE tried to take over Irish Dance Magazine as it was going out of business, so why not include some Irish dance? Irish has been around much longer than ballet, and it has a...

Don't forget Canada. (Letters).
January 1, 2003... Clive Barnes's celebration (September 2002) of ABT's revivals of two of Sir Frederick Ashton's ballets is certainly justified. Given, however, DANCE MAGAZINE's importance as a record of dance history, it is regrettable that his survey of Ashton...

New home for National Ballet of Canada? (News).(possible tenancy in Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts)
January 1, 2003... The National Ballet of Canada has announced that it is negotiating tenancy in the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto's proposed $67 million (U.S.), 2000-seat opera house, which is slated to open in the fall of 2005. The media...

The bucks stop here. (News).(The Role of the Arts in Economic Development report)
January 1, 2003... The American nonprofit arts industry annually generates $36.8 billion in revenue and supports 1.3 million full-time jobs in the fifty states, both in rural and urban areas. Those figures will likely continue to rise in the coming years, as the...

Clarifications.(Correction Notice)
January 1, 2003... In the Feldenkrais Method[R] contact information (November 2002, page 37), Barbara Forbes's telephone number at Sarah Lawrence College should have been listed as 9141395-2362. She may also be reached at 212/663-2875, barforb@hotmail.com, or The...

The dance-film festival boom. (Movies).
January 1, 2003... When a celebrated filmmaker like Pedro Almodovar bookmarks his latest movie Talk to Her with opening and closing scenes of Pina Bausch's company in performance, we know that dance will for a moment gain visibility on silver screens around the...

Why I love Steps. (New York).(Steps on Broadway)
January 1, 2003... To soak up New York's dance scene, there is no better place than Steps on Broadway on Manhattan's Upper West Side. With nine studios and more than fifty classes a day, it offers instruction in almost every dance genre. After taking a creaky...

Marking momentous moments. (New York).(Dance Theatre of Harlem, Judson Dance Theater and the Flamenco Festival )(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... On September 14, exactly one year after Dance Theatre of Harlem's appearance at the World Trade Center plaza was canceled, the company performed in Battery Park, the replacement site chosen by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Tai Jimenez,...

Keeping up with the people. (News).(University of California at Berkeley's Cal Performances)
January 1, 2003... With Celebracion de las Culturas de Iberoamerica, Cal Performances, the arts-presenting agency at the University of California at Berkeley, has embarked on a multiyear programming initiative that will highlight the music, dance, and theater of...

Taylor leaves Pittsburgh's Dance Alloy. (News).(artistic director Mark Taylor)
January 1, 2003... Dance Alloy's Mark Taylor has announced that he will step down as artistic director in July 2003. "I've been here for about twelve years. You get to a certain point when you ask, `What's next?'" explains the native Texan, who first...

Answers 4 dancers.
January 1, 2003... WHAT CAN I DO ABOUT FEELING INFERIOR? I'VE BEEN STUDYING BALLET SINCE I WAS 13. I NEVER HAD THE PERFECT BODY TO BE A BALLET DANCER, AND I'VE ALWAYS HAD AN INFERIORITY COMPLEX ABOUT IT. I EARNED A DEGREE IN MODERN DANCE AND I LOVED EVERY...

A Canadian success story--one year old. (News).(the Dance Centre)
January 1, 2003... When Scotiabank Dance Centre (recently renamed The Dance Centre) opened in September 2001 in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, the seven-story, shared-use facility for professional and amateur dance artists was expected to result in a...

The Mark Morris Dance Group and the University of California's Cal Performances have announced an expanded Berkeley residency for the Brooklyn-based company. (People and Companies).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... THE MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP and the University of California's CAL PERFORMANCES have announced an expanded Berkeley residency for the Brooklyn-based company. The new arrangement includes a minimum of two annual performance weeks at Zellerbach...

New York City Ballet principal Jennie Somogyi is one of six dancers to receive scholarships and fellowships during the twentieth annual Princess Grace Awards. (People and Companies).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... New York City Ballet principal JENNIE SOMOGYI (below) is one of six dancers to receive scholarships and fellowships during the twentieth annual Princess Grace Awards. Other recipients are KURT DOUGLAS (Limon Dance Company), DAVID HALLBERG...

The Jerome Robbins Foundation has announced the first Jerome Robbins Prize for Excellence in the Dance Arts. (People and Companies).(Jennifer Tipton and the New York City Ballet)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... The Jerome Robbins Foundation has announced the first JEROME ROBBINS PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE IN THE DANCE ARTS. The honorees, each to receive a $100,000 award, are lighting designer JENNIFER TIPTON and the NEW YORK CITY BALLET. The company will...

International Association of Blacks in Dance. (People and Companies).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... The fifteenth annual conference of the INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACKS IN DANCE will be held January 16-19 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C. The conference will include a tribute to dance scholar KATHERINE DUNHAM and a...

New York International Ballet Competition. (People and Companies).
January 1, 2003... Deadline for dancer applications for the twentieth-anniversary NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL BALLET COMPETITION is January 15. Females ages 17-23 and males ages 18-24 are eligible. For information: NYIBC, 250 W. 57th Street, Suite 1023, New York, NY...

National Dance Week. (People and Companies).(Fayard Nicholas and Jo Rowan)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Celebrated tap dancer FAYARD NICHOLAS is the national celebrity spokesperson and Jo ROWAN is the national educational spokesperson for National Dance Week, April 25-May 4.

The National Museum of Dance. (People and Companies).(winter opening times)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF DANCE in Saratoga Springs, New York, is now open to the public Saturdays and Sundays, from 10 A.M to 5 P.M, through the winter months.

Barrymore Award. (People and Companies).(New York City Ballet's Robert Las Fosse to become guest artist)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... ROBERT LA FOSSE has ended his sixteen-year career as a principal dancer at the New York City Ballet and will appear with the company, on a continuing basis, as a guest artist. La Fosse, who is marking his twenty-fifth year as a dancer...

Sofiane Sylve, a first soloist with Het Nationale Ballet of the Netherlands, is appearing with New York City Ballet as a guest artist during the winter season. (People and Companies).(also Yoel Carreno and Ask La Cour)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... SOFIANE SYLVE, a first soloist with Het Nationale Ballet of the Netherlands, is appearing with New York City Ballet as a guest artist during the Winter Season. Joining the company as soloist is Havana native YOEL CARRENO (a former member of...

Happy tales from up north: three Canadian companies have announced a stream, if not a river of black ink, for the 2001-02 fiscal year. (People and Companies).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Happy Tales from Up North: Three Canadian companies have announced a stream, if not a river of black ink, for the 2001-02 fiscal year. The country's oldest ballet troupe, the ROYAL WINNIPEG BALLET, declared a small, unspecified surplus at its...

Recent appointments: Tamas Detrich retired after twenty-one years as principal dancer of the Stuttgart Ballet and has assumed duties as the company's ballet master. (People and Companies).(and others)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Recent appointments: TAMAS DETRICH retired after twenty-one years as principal dancer of the Stuttgart Ballet and has assumed duties as the company's ballet master. MARK MURPHY is the executive director of Los Angeles's Roy and Edna...

Recent honors: choreographer Henry LeTang won the educator of the year award at the eighth annual American Choreography Awards in Los Angeles. (People and Companies).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Recent honors: Choreographer Henry Letang won the Educator of the Year Award at the eighth annual American Choreography Awards in Los Angeles. The award for outstanding achievement in short film went to JAMEY HAMPTON AND ASHLEY ROLAND of...

Miami City Ballet will dance, along with the Kirov Ballet, on March 11. (People and Companies).(Kennedy Center International Ballet Festival)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... MIAMI CITY BALLET will dance, along with the KIROV BALLET, on March 11, the opening night of the Kennedy Center's six-day International Ballet Festival.

Oregon Ballet Theatre. (People and Companies).(Katarina Svetlova to perform in Deutsche Oper am Rhein's Swan Lake)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... KATARINA SVETLOVA of Oregon Ballet Theatre will dance her first Odette/Odile in Swan Lake in January with the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Dusseldorf, under the direction of YOURI VAMOS.

Lily Cai Chinese Dance Company. (People and Companies).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... San Francisco's LILY CAI CHINESE DANCE COMPANY has launched an eight-state, seventeen-city American tour, which runs through May 10.

Kester Cotton, a member of the San Francisco Ballet corps de ballet, has collaborated with Raymond Francis on a book, Never Be Sick Again. (People and Companies).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... KESTER COTTON, a member of the San Francisco Ballet corps de ballet, has collaborated with Raymond Francis on a book, Never Be Sick Again, published by Health Communications, Inc. and described as "a new model of health and disease that...

Pas.(Homer Avila embodies meaning of dance)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... I STOOD IN THE DARK APPLAUDING UNTIL THE CRYSTAL FELL FROM MY WATCH, MY THROAT TOO FULL TO CHEER, DROPS OF MASCARA DOUBTLESS STAINING MY SHIRT FRONT. BEHIND ME AN ELDER WOMAN PRONOUNCED, NOW THAT WAS BEAUTIFUL DANCING. WE HAD JUST...

25 to watch.(dancers)
January 1, 2003... Each new year, Dance Magazine readers with a tempting array of dance delectables: twenty-five dancers, companies, choreographers, or trends that we believe will make you sit up and take notice in the coming months. [] We're often asked how we...

Mikko Nissinen and the new Boston Ballet.
January 1, 2003... Mikko Nissinen brings international connections, impressive credentials, and a sunny personality to his new role as Boston Ballet's artistic director. Opposite: International Ballet Competition medalist Sarah Lamb, who joined Boston Ballet in...

Edinburgh International and Fringe Festivals.
January 1, 2003... Various venues Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom August 4-31, 2002 Continental dance darlings Boris Charmatz, hailing from France, and Emio Greco, an Italian based in The Netherlands, offer a scintillating contrast. Like a bright,...

Misnomer Dance Theater.(Dance Review)
January 1, 2003... Chashama Theater New York, New York September 16, 22, 23, 26, 29, 2002 Chris Elam's Misnomer Dance Theater fuses an odd mix of sensibilities. His partnering style has some of the sculptural plastique of the MOMIX-Pilobolus school--at times...

Mark Morris Dance Group.("Something Lies Beyond the Scene")(Dance Review)
January 1, 2003... Zellerbach Hall Berkeley, California October 3-6, 2002 Offstage, Mark Morris loves to talk, but in his dance-making, speech is a resource that the choreographer has assiduously (and vocally) shunned for more than two decades. So, the world...

Nashville Ballet.("Gods and Monsters")(Dance Review)
January 1, 2003... Tennessee Performing Arts Center James K. Polk Theater Nashville, Tennessee October 4-5, 2002 With its 2002-03 season opener, "Gods and Monsters," Nashville Ballet deftly illustrated the broad interplay between the natural and the...

Trisha Brown Dance Company.(Dance Review)
January 1, 2003... Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall Portland, Oregon October 2, 2002 What if...? That is the question writers of speculative fiction ask themselves before they sit down to tell their stories of distant worlds in future times. For more than...

Oregon Ballet Theatre.(Dance Review)
January 1, 2003... Keller Auditorium Portland, Oregon October 12-13 and 17-19, 2002 James Canfield's final season opener as artistic director of Oregon Ballet Theatre, yet another retrospective, was representative of his choreography all right. It included...

Dance theater.(Tommy Tune: White Tie and Tails)
January 1, 2003... For a while there, from the late 1970s to the mid-'80s, it looked as though Tommy Tune would be a permanent, 6' 6" presence on the musical-theater scene. He was winning Tonys as a performer, director, and choreographer--nine in all. He...

Is drill team really dance?
January 1, 2003... You can debate the merits of dance-team participation versus the study of dance-as-an-art-form all you want. But for dance teachers, it boils down to one thing: Dance team means competition--competition for business and for the time and focus...

Thoughts from a dance team member.(Sopko, Julie)
January 1, 2003... When Julie Sopko wanted a way to fit into her new school, hundreds of miles away from friends and family at home in New Jersey, dance team provided just the right answer. Sopko, 20, a dance student from age 5 (ballet, tap, jazz, and acrobatics)...

For the first time, Theatre Development Fund's five-year-old arts mentoring program will feature a dance component. (Teachers and Schools).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... For the first time, Theatre Development Fund's five-year-old arts mentoring program will feature a dance component. LAR LUBOVITCH pilots the division by introducing eight students from Manhattan's Washington Irving High School to performances...

On education.(parent-teacher relationships)
January 1, 2003... As I travel the country presenting my seminars, I always ask each group, "What do you find the hardest issue to deal with as a dance educator?" It never fails that a huge majority of responses have to do with parents. Most dance teachers...

Candid Web camera in the classroom: the Jillana School brings technology to Taos. (Young dancer[R]).
January 1, 2003... The Taos Ski Valley in the Sangre de Gristo Mountains of northern New Mexico is beautiful, remote, and free of the hazards of the city. To former New York City Ballet principal dancer Jillana, it seemed a nearly perfect site for her summer...

Jo Rowan returns for a second year as education spokesperson for National Dance Week 2003. (Teachers and Schools).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... JO ROWAN returns for a second year as education spokesperson for National Dance Week 2003. Rowan is chair of the Oklahoma City University School of American Dance & Arts Management. www.nationaldanceweek.org.

Lida Nelson Smith will restage a May O'Donnell work for students of the Mount Holyoke College dance department. (Teachers and Schools).(Brief Article)(Calendar)
January 1, 2003... LIDA NELSON SMITH will restage a May O'Donnell work for students of the Mount Holyoke College dance department. Suspension will be performed in the Five College Dance Department concert, February 27-March 1. www.mtholyoke.edu.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison. (Teachers and Schools).(Brief Article)(Calendar)
January 1, 2003... Victoria Marks, composer John Mitchell, and Michael Cole each spent a week in residence last fall at THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON for its five-part Dance and Technology Festival. The event continues with Yacov Sharir (January 25-February...

The Boston Ballet School completed a $1.5 million expansion of its MetroWest studio in Newton, Massachusetts. (Teachers and Schools).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... THE BOSTON BALLET SCHOOL completed a $1.5 million expansion of its MetroWest studio in Newton, Massachusetts. The expansion almost doubles the facility's size and includes five new dance studios, locker rooms, a parent lounge, and...

The World Dance Alliance Americas 2003 Academic Symposium. (Teachers and Schools).(Brief Article)(Calendar)
January 1, 2003... THE WORLD DANCE ALLIANCE AMERICAS 2003 ACADEMIC SYMPOSIUM, to be held on April 23 in the Dominican Republic, will feature papers written on "Contemporary Traditions: Why People Dance Today." www.wdaamericas.org.

Dance Theater Workshop. (Teachers and Schools).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... DANCE THEATER WORKSHOP's Public Imaginations community program, Family Matters, features a series of variety-style showcases. David Dorfman Dance, Jody Sperling's TimeLapse Dance, Rachel Garniez, Cary Baker, and Catherine Gallant's P.S. 89...

Birmingham Royal Ballet. (Teachers and Schools).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET, with help from Barclays, introduced a series of workshops and events for the Sheldon Heath School and Leisure Centre. The project included a performance of BRB's Way Out West! at the Birmingham Hippodrome....

Pennsylvania Ballet. (Teachers and Schools).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... PENNSYLVANIA BALLET continues to expand its audience with a second year of Thursday Night Jumps, a series created for people ages 19 to 32. Subscribers not only attend performances and a pre-curtain party, but they also receive discounts at...

Barnard College Department of Dance. (Teachers and Schools).(On Dance: Conversations, Films, Lectures)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Lynn Garafola curates the BARNARD COLLEGE DEPARTMENT OF DANCE series "On Dance: Conversations, Films, Lectures." Guests for fall dates included Virginia Johnson, charter member of the Dance Theatre of Harlem, and a panel of composers and...

International Dance Teachers' Association. (Teachers and Schools).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... The INTERNATIONAL DANCE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION celebrates its centenary with the London Seminar, February 2 at the Royal Lancaster Hotel, Hyde Park, and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. www.idta.co.uk.

North Carolina Dance Theatre's DancePlace. (Teachers and Schools).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... ELLIOT BRADLEY, who teaches at North Carolina Dance Theatre's DancePlace, taught a master jazz class for the Davidson College Dance Ensemble.

North Carolina Dance Theatre. (Teachers and Schools).(professional-development workshop)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... NORTH CAROLINA DANCE THEATRE conducted a professional-development workshop to train certified North and South Carolina dance educators and NCDT teaching artists in the curriculum for its educational outreach program, Capturing Creativity....

Summer Study Guide 2003.(Directory)
January 1, 2003... Here, in the Northern Hemisphere, winter usually means chilly rains, stinging sleet, or snow higher than the hay in summer. Luckily, whatever the weather, January is also the time we begin to think of summer. That's when we get to push...

Summer in the city: sweating it out in the Ailey and Joffrey schools' summer intensives. (Summer Study Guide 2003).
January 1, 2003... Summer in New York City is not an easy season to endure. Searing heat and swampy humidity sharpen the overripe smells of the street and inflame fragile tempers. But in the summer (tough months for cab drivers and subway riders), dance...

The buzz on Broadway: Explore Dance! hits Broadway. (Summer Study Guide 2003).
January 1, 2003... It's a summer afternoon, and fifty-five girls from around the country are gathered onstage at New York City's Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, the school that inspired the movie Fame. They're learning one of...

Boot camp for dancers: pushing personal boundaries at Austin's Glenda Brown choreography project. (Summer Study Guide 2003).
January 1, 2003... Two dancers jointly clutch a roll of paper towels overhead. Their arms are fully extended; their bodies pressed closely together. As they move sinuously across the stage, a bossy voice suddenly booms from the theater, "Make it less sexy. And...

Dance directory. (Dance).(Directory)
January 1, 2003... Schools, Colleges, Teachers, Dancers, Companies, AND Somatic Practices Contents United States 197 International 207 Somatic Practices, Movement Arts, and Yoga 208 United States ALABAMA ...

Rock School adds academics. (Dance).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Last fall, The Rock School of Philadelphia started the second year of an in-house performing arts high school called Rock Academic Program Alliance (RAPA) with enrollment of sixteen students. RAPA began in 2001 in response to interest from...

Baryshnikov's fate in photographs.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Baryshnikov in Black and White, edited by Joan Acocella. New York, NY: Bloomsbury. 2002. 320 pages, illustrations. $60. ISBN: 1-58234-186-9. In 2002, Bloomsbury published Baryshnikov in Black and White, a collection of photographs taken by...

Transitions.(Obituary)
January 1, 2003... RUDOLPH DE HARAK DANCE MAGAZINE's director of design, then art director, from 1954 to 1964, died on April 24, 2002, at age 78, from complications of bladder cancer. The influential artist, born on April 10, 1924, started his own design...

Dance escape: Graham.(Terese Capucilli and Christine Dakin)(Illustration)
January 1, 2003... Embodying the legacy, Terese Capucilli and Christine Dakin win head the post-trial-decision Martha Graham Dance Company. These 1988 photographs by Jack Mitchell show Capucilli, left, in Deep Song and Dakin, right, in Phaedra, which win be on...

Attitudes.(modern dance year end review)
January 1, 2003... Another new year... another little tentative nibble out of the third millennium. So what does the future hold for that oddly named dance form, modern dance, which has been with us now for almost a century? How modern can you keep? Toward...