Dance Magazine articles from January 2004

Dance Magazine archives from January 2004

Summer gets a head start.(Starting Here)
January 1, 2004... The classic film comedian W. C. Fields used to slam a cigar into the corner of his mouth and sneer nasally, "I'd rather be in Phila-del-phia." And after looking through the luscious supplement to DANCE MAGAZINE this month, Philadelphia Dances,...

Those terrific '30s.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2004... What I remember most fondly was learning Lincoln Kirstein was bringing Balanchine to this country. I went to the School of American Ballet at its first studio at 637 Madison Avenue. I danced with the American Ballet Company at the Metropolitan...

Maturity blooms.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2004... It is sad and ironic that an "ageism" decree against dancers should come out of India (see "Rants and Raves," October 2003, page 70). The lovely South Indian Bharata Natyam is acknowledged to be the queen of various Indian classic dance...

Competition dropouts.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2004... I am the owner of a dance studio in Allentown, PA, as well as the director of a college dance program. I attended the UNITY panel discussion at the NDEO conference last June in Providence, RI. I was unaware of the advocating UNITY does for...

Dancers and depression.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2004... I was glad to see Linda Hamilton's article "Depression in Dancers" (October 2003, page 50). However, I was disappointed that she didn't discuss how dance is the root cause of much of the extreme perfectionism, high standards, and...

Corrections.(Letters)(Correction Notice)
January 1, 2004... Four photographs illustrating the article "Trolley Dancing," DANCE MAGAZINE, October 2003, pages 66-67, should have been attributed to Kathleen Pierce.

The second time around: Alicia Graf in her own words.(Dance Matters)(Column)
January 1, 2004... (An aura of wonder and mystery always surrounds the discovery of an exceptional young performer. In the ease of Alicia Graf, whose dancing lent an unforgettable luster to Dance Theatre of Harlem in the late 1990s, the mystery was compounded...

Montreal: retools its festival.(Festival International de Nouvelle Dause)
January 1, 2004... The Festival International de Nouvelle Dause in Montreal celebrated its eleventh edition September 30-October 12 by extending its name to reflect a growing orientation toward laboratory presentations. Many but not all of the thirty4hree big...

Judith Jamison, artistic director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and Kevin McKenzie, artistic director of American Ballet Theatre, received the Charles Loring Brace Medal.(Recent Honors)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... JUDITH JAMISON, artistic director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and KEVIN McKENZIE, artistic director of American Ballet Theatre, received the CHARLES LORING BRACE MEDAL from the Children's Aid Society for their commitment to children...

Laurie Eisenhower, artistic director of the Eisenhower Dance Ensemble, is the recipient of the Artserve Michigan Governor's Award.(Recent Honors)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... LAURIE EISENHOWER, artistic director of the Eisenhower Dance Ensemble, is the recipient of the ARTSERVE MICHIGAN GOVERNOR'S AWARD for Arts and Culture in the Michigan Artist category...

The 2003 Martha Hill Award has gone to author and Ballet Review editor.(Recent Award)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... The 2003 MARTHA HILL AWARD has gone to author and Ballet Review editor FRANCIS MASON...

Ksenia Vidyakina has won the the New York International Fringe Festival Excellence Award.(Recent Honors)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... KSENIA VIDYAKINA has won the the NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL FRINGE FESTIVAL EXCELLENCE AWARD in choreography.

Bounty in the heartland.(University of Iowa's Hancher Auditorium)
January 1, 2004... "Part of our mission is to ensure that dances and other performing arts continue to be vital, edgy, and exciting," says Judith Hurtig, artistic director of the University of Iowa's Hancher Auditorium. "Through commissions we can provide...

The Royal Danish Ballet has announced its third Bournonville Festival at the Royal Opera House, Copenhagen, June 3-11, 2005, marking the bicentennial of choreographer August Bournonville.(Company News)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... The Royal Danish Ballet has announced its third Bournonville Festival at the Royal Opera House, Copenhagen, June 3-11, 2005, marking the bicentennial of choreographer August Bournonville. The festival will include ten ballets, a closing night...

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has met a $3 million challenge by Joan and Sandy Weill.(Company News)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has met a $3 million challenge by Joan and Sandy Weill, completing the initial phase of the capital campaign for the building of the company's new home...

Royal Winnipeg Ballet has announced a surplus.(Company News)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Royal Winnipeg Ballet has announced a surplus for the 2002-03 fiscal year...

The Atlantic Southeast Ballet and Orchestra of North Charleston.(Company News)
January 1, 2004... The Atlantic Southeast Ballet and Orchestra of North Charleston, SC, has folded...

National Ballet of Canada ended its 2002-03 season.(Company News)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... National Ballet of Canada ended its 2002-03 season with a surplus of $10,000 (CDN)...

Milwaukee Ballet has posted.(Company News)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Milwaukee Ballet has posted its first deficit in six years.

The resurrection of a genius.(Leonid Jacobson )(Biography)
January 1, 2004... This month's 100th birthday celebrations for George Balanchine have overshadowed the centenary of another path-breaking choreographer, another son of St. Petersburg. He was Leonid Jacobson and his story is one of the wonders and tragedies of...

Happy birthday, Boris Kochno.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... January is thick with centenary celebrations in dance, but let us save at least one toast for a man who was neither dancer nor choreographer, but nevertheless contributed substantially to the evolution of the art in the twentieth century. Boris...

Back in business.(Peter Sparling Dance Company)
January 1, 2004... In Michigan, as everywhere, space for dance is dwindling as downtowns rev up and rents start to soar, thus pushing out cash-strapped artists. The situation of the Peter Sparling Dance Company-led since 1993 by former Martha Graham Dance...

You choreographed it, you own it.(Go Daddy Group, Inc. specializes in domain registration)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... "If you don't register copyright of your work, and someone pirates it and makes money off it, and you sue, you have no legal recourse in the courts," says e-Site[TM] software Product Manager, Nima Kelly "Copyright registration is indisputable...

Berlin now: the scene.(Column)
January 1, 2004... Fourteen years after the fall of its iconic wall, Berlin has evolved from a symbol of separation to a global cultural crossroads at the border of "Old" and "New" Europe. Dancers from around the world populate the city's dance classes and...

Alonso inspires.(New York Matters)(Ballet Nacional de Cuba)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... "After fifty-five years of directing the Ballet Nacional de Cuba, I'm still working and still learning," Alicia Alonso told a group of dance students and teachers during BNC's October 2003 visit to New York. Alonso started the company in 1948...

By any other name ...(New York Matters)(Fugate/Bahiri Ballet NY)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Judith Fugate and Medhi Bahiri are changing dancers' lives. The pair, former principals, respectively, of New York City Ballet and Boston Ballet, took inspiration from the fact that there are so many unemployed great performers, and founded...

Grantsmanship.(New York Matters)(donations to Danspace Project, BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange from Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Altria Group, New York Community Trust)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... The Danspace Project has announced awards of $300,000 from the Mertz Gilmore Foundation and $50,000 from the New York Community Trust. Both awards will help launch a multiyear initiative that will increase the capacity of the organization to...

And the awardees are ...(New York Matters)(choreographers and dancers honored)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Dance Theater Workshop and the 2003 Bessies Committee, in association with Danspace Project and the Joyce Theater, handed out twenty five citations honoring thirty-four individuals or organizations for achievements in the 2002-03 season....

Another theatre, another opening.(New York Matters)(new peforming arts center at New York University)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... In the center of Greenwich Village, New York University has a new theater on LaGuardia Place. The Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts will feature dance, music, new media, drama, and musical theater performances. L. Jay Olivia,...

Mr. B on air.(New York Matters)(screenings of danceperformances filmed for television, choreographed by George Balanchine)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... A Celebration of George Balanchine: Selected Television Work is the Museum of Television and Radio's gift to balletomanes in this centennial winter. Running through March 7, the series features screenings of the choreographer's prolific...

Calendar.(dance performances)(Calendar)
January 1, 2004... JANUARY WASHINGTON, DC Jan 3-5, Philadanco, John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 2700 F St NW, 202.467.4600, www.kennedy-center.org Jan 13-18, Royal Danish Ballet, Opera House, John F Kennedy Center for the Performing...

Advice for dancers: former New York City Ballet dancer Linda Hamilton Ph.D., is a lecturer, a psychologist in private practice, and author of Advice for Dancers (Jossey-Bass). She has been offering advice to Dance Magazine readers since 1992.(advice on choosing the right ballet school and teacher, handling injury, and improving relations with company management)
January 1, 2004... I'M A 16-YEAR-OLD HONOR STUDENT WHO'S BEEN DANCING FOR NEARLY EIGHT YEARS--ONLY TO FIND OUT THAT I'VE BEEN TRAINED INCORRECTLY AT THE LOCAL SPORTS FITNESS COMPLEX. MY NEW TEACHER HAD A CAREER AS A DANCER. HE ALSO WORKED WITH PEOPLE I'VE READ...

25 to watch: Dance Magazine predicts who's new and breaking through for 2004.(Cover Story)
January 1, 2004... GEORGE PIPER DANCES NOEMIE LAFRANCE BENJAMIN LEVY DOMINIC WALSH DANCE THEATER STELLA ABRERA DAVID HALLBERG VERB BALLETS CATHY MARSTON MATJASH MROZEWSKI NICOLAS BLANC VIENGSAY VALDES REVEALING...

A nose for nuance.(Balanchine Lives)(GEORGE BALLANCHINE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION )(Biography)
January 1, 2004... The critic Kenneth Tynan had a party game. "Who are you?" you asked some guest. After the response you asked: "And after that, who are you?" Another reply, then: "After that, who are you?" It was the undressing of an onion, a shot at reality...

Balanchine: through the eyes of choreographers now.(Balanchine Lives)
January 1, 2004... Choreographers the world over have been touched by Balanchine's genius. Last fall DANCE MAGAZINE interviewed contemporary choreographers about their responses to his work, both positive and negative. Their candid, thoughtful, and sometimes...

The incredible lightness of Kyra Nichols.(Balanchine Lives)(Biography)
January 1, 2004... "That exactness of execution--the kind that [Suzanne] Farrell and Kyra Nichols have--is God given," Russian-born ballet master George Balanchine told Russian musicologist Solomon Volkov for the 1985 book Balanchine's Tchaikovsky. By 1981,...

Balanchine boogies on Broadway.(Balanchine Lives)(Popular Balanchine Project)
January 1, 2004... Not an opera house, but Broadway was where Americans first saw George Balanchine's choreography--and his dances arrived in New York before he did. The commercial stage and Hollywood film, in fact, were principal venues for Mr. B's work during...

Anna Halprin: from dance art to healing art.
January 1, 2004... Each April we present the prestigious Dance Magazine Awards to outstanding members of the dance community for their contributions to the field. With this issue, we begin a four-part series, profiling each of the four extraordinary recipients in...

Nice and snug.(New products--in the shopping bag)(Sade Bodywear's Ribbed Ankle Warmers )(Product/Service Evaluation)
January 1, 2004... ANKLE WARMERS are fantastic when they cling to your ankles. But, so many fall down to where they're nothing more than glorified socks. Sade Bodywear's Ribbed Ankle Warmers hug what they're supposed to hug--your ankles. The ribbed acrylic is...

Hip hip hooray.(New products--in the shopping bag)(Libert's hip warmer)(Product/Service Evaluation)
January 1, 2004... LIBERTS' HIP WARMER looks like a sweatshirt hanging off your waist, but don't try to pull it over your head--the neck doesn't open. This shirt-like accessory wraps around your midriff, and the cotton-Lycra-fleece material warms your waist, your...

Piping hot.(New products--in the shopping bag)(Thermos Products' Beverage Bottle 2520 )(Product/Service Evaluation)
January 1, 2004... IT'S NO SECRET: To beat winter's cold, you need one weapon--a hot beverage. Thermos Products' Beverage Bottle 2520 keeps your coffee hot while you're in class, rehearsing, or teaching. This thermos is big, easy to use, and durable. The cup...

Feet first.(New products--in the shopping bag)(Harmonie's knit booties)(Product/Service Evaluation)
January 1, 2004... KICKING OFF your shoes loses its appeal when your feet are cold and stiff. During and after workouts, thaw frozen tootsies with Harmonie's knit booties. Slip them on over ballet slippers to keep your shoes clean, or give your feet a breather,...

Tantalizing teas.(New products--in the shopping bag)(Advertisement)
January 1, 2004... BEFORE YOU settle for the same old tea, consider brewing a gourmet cup with Empty Cup Inc.'s Pyramid Pouch. Each translucent tea bag holds one of seventeen best-selling Tea Emporium blends. The loose leaves--mixed with herbs, flowers, oils,...

By an about George Balanchine.(Balanchine: Celebrating a Life in Dance)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... By George Balanchine 32 pages. Under $10. Prices in bookstores may vary; to order from the publisher, email HealyEnt@aol.com. BALANCHINE: CELEBRATING A LIFE IN DANCE Photographs by Costas; with contributions from Clive Barnes, Suzanne...

Dance theater.(Noah Racey stars as Lucky Garnett in "Never Gonna Dance")
January 1, 2004... Growing up in Seattle in the 1970s and 1980s, Noah Racey always had an answer when adults asked him what he wanted to be. From the age of 3, when his father gave him a toy drum, he planned to be a drummer. As he got older, he got more specific:...

Ballet Nacional de Cuba.(Don Quixote; Swan Lake Act II,)(Dance Review)
January 1, 2004... City Center New York, New York October 15-19, 2003 LIKE MOST ballet regulars and, dare I say, most ballet critics, I admire many dance companies, but actually love comparatively few. High among those I love is the Ballet Nacional de Cuba....

Ballet Austin.(The Taming of the Shrew)(Dance Review)
January 1, 2004... Bass Concert Hall Austin, Texas October 10-12, 2003 The Taming of the Shrew, Ballet Austin's newest full-length offering by artistic director Stephen Mills, condenses Shakespeare's comic battle of the sexes into three acts of rollicking...

The Royal Danish Ballet.(La Sylphide; Marion)(Dance Review)
January 1, 2004... The Royal Theatre Copenhagen, Denmark September 25-27, 2003 This season's splendid and completely reconsidered staging of La Sylphide, with new scenery and costumes by Mikael Melbye, is by a prodigal son temporarily returned--Nicolaj Hubbe,...

Sonja Delwaide.(Le temps; Seuls; du balcon)(Dance Review)
January 1, 2004... ODC/Theater San Francisco, California September 26, 2003 Watching a dancer's last performance is bitter sweet. In the case of Canadian transplant Sonia Delwaide, it was doubly so. Long-limbed, lightening fast, with incredible feet and a...

Without dance, they'd just be ... Roni Mahler brings ballet to the sports world.
January 1, 2004... WHEN THE DANCE community erupted in anger last year over an ESPN ad featuring the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders and the provocative tagline "Without sports, they'd just dancers" (see Dance Matters, July 2003), Roni Mahler had a unique perspective...

Rare footage found.(pioneers of modern dance at Bennington College, 1938)
January 1, 2004... THE SUMMER OF 1938 at the legendary Bennington School of the Dance might have gone the way of all memories. But Oceana Wilson, a reference librarian at Bennington College, recently unearthed an unmarked film from that summer. She slogged...

On education.(on being a judge for dance competitions)(Column)
January 1, 2004... I've been out of the competition business for a few months now, yet I'm receiving more requests and resumes from those seeking a judging position than ever before. As we experience a boom in the dance-competition industry, there's also an...

The White House's 2003 Coming Up Taller Awards.(Honor Roll)(to community arts and humanities programs)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Laura Bush presented THE WHITE HOUSE'S 2003 COMING UP TALLER AWARDS to eighteen community arts and humanities programs including Saint Joseph Ballet, Santa Ana, California; Ailey Camp, Kansas City, Missouri; COCA Center of Contemporary Arts,...

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.(Honor Roll)(establishes Bob Fosse-Gwen Verdon Fellowship)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER received a gift to establish the Bob Fosse-Gwen Verdon Fellowship, providing a scholarship to The Alley School. Scholarship gifts made before June 30, 2004 are matched by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation...

American Repertory Ballet's Princeton Ballet School.(Honor Roll)(celebrates alumni)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... AMERICAN REPERTORY BALLET'S PRINCETON BALLET SCHOOL in New Brunswick, New Jersey, inaugurated a "Wall of Fame" to celebrate the school's fiftieth anniversary. School and company alumni who were recognized include Bebe Neuwirth, Jim Vincent,...

New assignments.(Education Matters)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Ailey School Director DENISE JEFFERSON is president of the National Association of Schools of Dance. DAVID ROUSSEVE is chair of the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures. Former Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre principal dancer KRISTEN WENRICK is...

Double time and numbers: young tappers honor the past while celebrating the present.(Summer Study Guide 2004)(Youth Tap Ensemble Conference, Evanston, Illinois)
January 1, 2004... JAMboree!, the final concert of Chicago Human Rhythm Project's second annual Youth Tap Ensemble Conference, took on special resonance. Earlier that day, tap legend Gregory Hines's death was reported. The mood, however, was encouraging as...

Argentine addition: tango students submit to the passion.(Summer Study Guide 2004)
January 1, 2004... Argentine tango is a dance of the night--and passions that breed in the dark. It's infused with desire and loss, impossible tenderness, insatiable hunger. So what am I doing at 9:30 in the morning dancing tango on the top floor of the...

Summer school MFA: the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee offers a long distance-learning degree program.(Summer Study Guide 2004)(master of fine arts program)
January 1, 2004... When Nina Haft graduated in 1984 from Swarthmore College with a degree in religion, she thought she might move oil to study psychology. But her true passion was dance. Twenty years later at age 40, she's getting the dance degree that she always...

Summer study guide 2004.(Alabama-Massachusetts)(Directory)
January 1, 2004... Welcome to DANCE MAGAZINE'S 2004 Summer Study Guide. This detailed guide to summer study programs across the country and around the world helps you choose the one that's perfect for you. From an aerial arts workshop in Tucson to weeks of ballet...

Summer study guide 2004.(Michigan-Ohio)(Directory)
January 1, 2004... MICHIGAN ANN ARBOR DANCE GALLERY STUIDO/PETER SPARLING DANCE Co. SUMMER DANCE CAMP Aug 9-22. Ballet, modern, character, pointe. Beg., int., adv. Ages: 6-18. Tuition: call for info. Contact: Ruth Leney-Midkiff, Director of Studio...

Summer study guide 2004.(Oklahoma-United Kingdom)(Directory)
January 1, 2004... OKLAHOMA OKLAHOMA CITY SCHOOL OF BALLET OKLAHOMA SUMMER SESSION June 7-July 16. Ballet, jazz. Beg., int., adv. Ages: 4-adult. Tuition: varies. Contact: Sue Horton, Ballet Oklahoma, 7421 N. Classen, Oklahoma City, OK 73116;...

Ballet is sexy.(Rants and Raves)(Column)
January 1, 2004... HAVE YOU noticed? Ballet is getting sexy. From the brazenness of Lorena Feijoo in Val Caniparoli's duet No Other to the luscious sensuality of Dance Theatre of Harlem's Caroline Rocher in St. Louis Woman, from the oozing elegance of Peter...

Dance directory: schools, studios, colleges, universities, companies, teachers, dancers, choreographers, somatic practices, movement arts, dance medicine, yoga.(Directory)
January 1, 2004... 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...

Grooming the future.(ballet dancer, choreographer and artistic director Francisco Martinez)(Brief Article)(Biography)
January 1, 2004... A good many young Hispanic ballet dancers in Los Angeles look to Francisco Martinez as a mentor and role model. Martinez is artistic director of the Francisco Martinez Dancetheatre, which recently marked its twenty-third anniversary at...

Nina Fonaroff.(Transitions)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
January 1, 2004... Small-boned, with a shock of crinkly blonde hair and a throaty, mischievous laugh, Nina Fonaroff was one of a nucleus of adventuresome, mid-twentieth century American choreographers. Born in New York in 1914, she died August 14, 2003 in London....

Julie Ince Thompson.(Transitions)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
January 1, 2004... Julie Ince Thompson (1951-2003), choreographer, performer and teacher, died of cancer on September 25, 2003, a day short of her fifty-second birthday. One of the most admired members of the Boston-area dance community since the mid-1970s...

Attitudes.(Royal Danish Ballet)(Column)
January 1, 2004... SITTING AS quiet as a mole-like guest, watching company class of the Royal Danish Ballet in the main rehearsal studio of the Royal Theater, I was started to be introduced to the dancers by Artistic Director Frank Andersen as "someone who had...

Philadelphia dances.
January 1, 2004... Surveying the city's dramatically renewed Avenue of the Arts from atop his City Hall pinnacle 500 feet above Philadelphia, the totem of founder William Penn has twelve-foot arms and five-foot-long bronze shoes, and bemoans the fact that he...

The calendar.(Calendar)
January 1, 2004... PHILADELPHIA DANCES January 13-15 You Are So Entertainer Headlong Dance Theater & Arrow Dance Communication Kyoto Art Center Kyoto, Japan Info: 215.545.9195 www.kac.or.jp/english www.jcdn.org January 14...