Dance Magazine articles from July 2005

Dance Magazine archives from July 2005

Curtain up.(Editorial)
July 1, 2005... One way to celebrate the Fourth of July is to watch fireworks. Here at DANCE MAGAZINE we're celebrating by tuning in to the dance forms that are uniquely American. After all, modern dance started in this country, with Isadora Duncan and Ruth...

Hopeless romantic ... not.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2005... I was shocked by the February cover story on dancing couples. Stories like these help enforce the myth so prevalent among today's young dancers that becoming a professional is a transcendental experience that will change their entire lives. Not...

Sidelined by surgery.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2005... I am a 29-year-old dancer and dance instructor who was recently diagnosed with acetabular dysplasia and a labral tear in my right hip. I went through physical therapy with no success, and am scheduled to have hip surgery this summer. Since my...

For the love of it.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2005... I really enjoyed "Coping with Criticism" in the March issue. I have been lucky enough to have teachers who give corrections and push without tearing students down on a personal level. Teachers are supposed to pass their love and joy for dance...

Quote of the month.(Martha Graham)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... "My dancing is just dancing. It is not an attempt to interpret life in a literary sense. It is not the affirmation of life through movement. Its only aim is to impart the sensation of living--to energize the spectator into keener awareness of...

Closing night for JAZZDANCE.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2005... I was sad to read that JAZZDANCE, Danny Buraczeski's wonderful company, is closing its doors [see "Transitions," April issue]. Fortunately, this is a eulogy for the organization and not the man, but it has to be said that Danny (above) is both...

Gaither inspires.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2005... I was inspired by the April story "Survive & Conquer" about Elizabeth Gaither. I met Elizabeth last February because we both had the same physical therapist. I am 10 years old and was dancing five days a week when I broke my leg and had to have...

Corrections.(Correction Notice)
July 1, 2005... The photograph of Savion Glover in the April issue on page 6 was taken by Jack Vartoogian. And on page 62, Alvaro Palau's name is misspelled in the photo caption. The image of David Dorfman's company on page 27 of the May issue was taken...

A new star shines at the Bolshoi.(DANCE MATTERS)(Nikolai Tsiskaridze)(Interview)
July 1, 2005... This summer the Bolshoi Ballet is touring the U.S. with artistic director Alexei Ratmansky's The Bright Stream, Pierre Lacotte's restaging of Petipa's Pharaoh's Daughter, and company favorites Don Quixote and Spartacus. Last winter in...

More labor strife in D.C.(DANCE MATTERS)(Wahington Ballet Company, District of Columbia)(unfair labor practice charges)
July 1, 2005... The newly unionized dancers of The Washington Ballet have already hit a rocky road with company management. In March, Nikkia Parish and Brian Corman, two company dancers who testified before the National Labor Relations Board on behalf of...

Cunningham in California.(DANCE MATTERS)(Merce Cunningham Dance Company)(Encounter Merce: An Interdisciplinary Exploration Through the Arts)
July 1, 2005... Early in March, the air at Stanford University, felt like champagne. Maybe it was because the winter rains had finally let tip and the acacias were in bloom. But the lightness of spirit was just as likely the result of Stanford's "ENCOUNTER...

Merger to the max.(DANCE MATTER)(formation of Maximum Dance Ballet Gamonet)
July 1, 2005... A shared past rescued air uncertain future last winter when South Florida's eight-year-old Maximum Dance Company merged with Ballet Gamonet, a troupe still in formation. Two heads may have proved doubly successful in guiding MDC creatively, but...

Dancer-choreographer Bill T. Jones is on several honors lists this season.(Names in the News)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Dancer-choreographer BILL T. JONES (right) is on several honors lists this season. Ohio's Wexner Center for the Arts awarded him the 12th Wexner Prize (with its $50,000 purse). On July 17, he receives the $35,000 Samuel H. Scripps/American...

The 2005 Guggenheim Fellows in Dance are choreographers Alito Alessi.(Names in the News)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... The 2005 Guggenheim Fellows in Dance are choreographers ALITO ALESSI, DAVID DORRMAN, SIMONE FORT, and VICTORIA E. MARKS, and for dance studies, REMY CHARLIP.

Catherine B. Reynolds is the new Chairman.(Names in the News)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... CATHERINE B. REYNOLDS is the new Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Dance Theatre of Harlem.

Barry C. Hessenius, former director of the California Arts Council.(Names in the News)(LINES Ballet)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... BARRY C. HESSENIUS, former director of the California Arts Council, is the new executive director of San Francisco's LINES Ballet.

Alvin Alley Dance Foundation Executive Director Sharon Gersten Luckman was given the 2005 Community Service Signature Award.(Names in the News)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Alvin Alley Dance Foundation Executive Director SHARON GERSTEN LUCKMAN was given the 2005 Community Service Signature Award from the New York City chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners.

Andrew Mogrelia has resigned.(Names in the News)(San Francisco Ballet)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... ANDREW MOGRELIA has resigned as music director and principal conductor of the San Francisco Ballet.

When the metal hits the deck.(New York Notebook)(Tap City Jazz Boat Ride)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... NY Imagine floating before the Manhattan skyline with a river breeze at your neck, when the after dinner strains of a live jazz combo give way to the goose-bump-raising thunder of rhythm tap. You're onboard the Tap City Jazz Boat Ride and Tap...

Shen Wei his way.(New York Notebook)(Map)(Lincoln Center Festival)(Dance Review)
July 1, 2005... NY The rising choreographic star Chinese-born Shen Wei has his feet in two worlds--Chinese opera and modern dance. His works are a beautiful, distinctive fusion of the two. Map, set to Steve Reich's Desert Music, premieres this month in the...

Arrested Development.(New York Notebook)(Frozen Mommy)(Dance Theater Workshop)(Brief Article)(Dance Review)
July 1, 2005... NY Tere O'Connor's Frozen Mommy is like a look inside the restless mind of a sensitive child. It is a precisely rendered dance of repeating non seqniturs on an emotional journey to breakdown--and rescue. Anger, hysteria, fear, elation, sadness,...

Where have all the DTH dancers gone?(New York Notebook)(Dance Theatre of Harlem)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... NY Well, five of them are performing with Judith Fugate and Medhi Baliri's Ballet NY at the Joyce July 5-9. The program of this up-and-coming chambers group includes new works by Jodie Gates, Davis Robertson, Alan Hineline, and...

Yoga and ballet: restore your balance.(Mind you BODY)
July 1, 2005... If you are a ballet dancer, you've no doubt learned to accept some level of chronic pain as a fact of life. It typically shows up in your knees, lower back, hips, and feet, which bear the brunt of long rehearsal hours. Instead of ignoring it,...

Advice for dancers: former New York City Ballet dancer Linda Hamilton, Ph.D., is a lecturer, a psychologist in private practice, and the author of Advice for Dancers (Jossey-Bass). She has been offering advice to Dance Magazine readers since 1992.
July 1, 2005... I HAVE A SPECIAL PERFORMANCE COMING UP THAT I'M DYING TO DANCE. MY PROBLEM IS I CAN'T DO IT BECAUSE OF A PULLED GROIN MUSCLE. THE CHOREOGRAPHER ISN'T VERY SYMPATHETIC. HOW CAN J CONVINCE HER J HAVE A REAL INJURY?--ANNA, NEW YORK, NY Get a...

Tomorrow and the Martha Graham Company: the legal nightmare over, the dancers are leaping into the future.
July 1, 2005... Fourteen women, closely aligned, wait for tire piano to begin. Young and impossibly slender, the dancers bristle with contained energy. They cross the floor in a gait so sustained that poet Ben Belitt once called it "the heels' blow upon...

In the Joffrey tradition: artistic directors of five companies talk about how Robert Joffrey's vision shaped their approach.(Dermot Burke, Dayton Ballet)(Jeffrey Graham Hughes, Ohio Ballet)(Tom Mossbrucker, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet)(David Palmer, Maximum Dance Ballet Gamonet)(William Whitener, Kansas City Ballet)(Panel Discussion)
July 1, 2005... ON A GOOD DAY, in the right shoes, he stood 5' 6" tall. But when Robert Jeffrey walked into a studio, his immense aura as director, teacher, choreographer, and impresario forced everyone to pay heed. The ballet company that Jeffrey forged,...

Born to be wild: when she's onstage, the Joffrey Ballet's Maia Wilkins can't hold back.(Biography)
July 1, 2005... Earlier this year, as Maia Wilkins was rehearsing her role in Antony Tudor's Dark Elegies, she did something she knew she would never do in a performance, but something she needed to try anyway. "I realized I was being too controlled and...

All in the family: tap dancing siblings Josette and Joseph Wiggan take off.
July 1, 2005... Psychologists looking for signs of sibling rivalry in tap dancers Joseph and Josette Wiggan will be decidedly disappointed. The brother and sister phenoms, now 19 and 22, began tapping 10 years ago and have been, for most of their performing...

Rants & Raves: how can dance education compete with the power of the media?
July 1, 2005... What attitude does mainstream America have toward dance, and why should dance professionals care? As someone who monitors the media closely, I have become increasingly disturbed about the low reputation of the fine arts with the mass audience...

Making up is hard to do.(DM STYLE)(theatrical makeup)(shopping guide)
July 1, 2005... Makeup should enhance your features and performance--not add to your stress level. Complicated makeup can actually make it harder for the audience to see your face. We asked professional dancers and makeup artists to share their tips. The...

In the American vein: a sheat of recent books and DVDs.(DANCE MAGAZINE RECOMMENDS)(Merce Cunningham: The Modernizing of Modern Dance)(Performance: Live Art Since the 60s)(Speaking of Dance: Twelve Contemporary Choreographers on Their Craft)(books)(Trisha Brown: Early Works 1966-1979)(The Bandwagon)(DVD's)(Movie Review)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Merce Cunningham: The Modernizing of Modern Dance By Roger Copeland. New York: Routledge, 2004. 304 pp. Illustrated. $28.95 (paper). Thirty-five years of the author's Cunningham-watching and intense absorption in the artistic currents of...

Setting a high barre: Marcia Dale Weary celebrates 50 years.(TLc: TEACH-LEARN CONNECTION)(Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet School)(Biography)
July 1, 2005... There's definitely something about Marcia. Marcia Dale Weary, that is, founder and artistic director of the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet. Physically petite and soft-spoken, Weary is a determined crafter of young bodies, one of the...

Grant Strate.(LIMELIGHT)(Brief Article)(Biography)
July 1, 2005... TLC MIND AND BODY are inseparable," says pioneering dance educator Grant Strate. In 1970 he founded Canada's first degree-granting dance program at Toronto's York University. Later he became director of The Centre for the Arts at Simon Fraser...

Summer study.(ACROSS THE FLOOR)(Calendar)
July 1, 2005... TLC June 26-July 24, Saratoga Springs, NY: Briansky Saratoga Ballet Center celebrates its 40th summer program at Skidmore College in New York. Oleg Briansky and Mireille Briane operate this esteemed pre-professional program that attracts...

Ailey II, directed by Sylvia Waters, celebrated its 30th anniversary at the Apollo Theater in Harlem.(Milestones)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Ailey II, directed by Sylvia Waters, celebrated its 30th anniversary at the Apollo Theater in Harlem. Works by Troy Powell, Marlies Yearby, Talley Beatty, and Alvin Ailey were performed.

American Repertory Ballet's.(Milestones)(Dance Power's funding and scholarships)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... The American Repertory Ballet's Dance Power program marked its 20th year with $12,000 funding from Citigroup to continue to teach dance to every third grade student in the nine elementary schools of New Brunswick, New Jersey and offer...

Worcester State College.(Kudos)(Charlotte Klein receives honorary doctorate)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Charlotte Klein, dance educator in Worcester, Massachusetts, received an honorary Ph.D. from Worcester State College. Klein opened her first dance studio in 1952 and has served in national and regional leadership positions with Dance Masters of...

American Ballet Theatre's Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School.(New Assignments)(Franco De Vita principal)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Franco De Vita is principal of American Ballet Theatre's Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School. De Vita comes to ABT from Boston Ballet School, where he was dean of faculty and curriculum. Trained in Cecehetti, he has taught at Hartford Ballet,...

Alonzo King's LINES Ballet.(New Assignments)(Layla Amis, director)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Layla Amis has joined Monzo King's LINES Ballet as director of the ballet school in San Francisco. Amis studied at New World College of the Arts and Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Center, and was the school director for the Moving People Dance Space...

Teacher wisdom: Milton Myers.(THIS MONTH)(the Horton technique)(Interview)
July 1, 2005... TLC Milton Myers has helped shape the careers of hundreds of dancers through the Horton technique, a dance form combining elements of modern, jazz, and ballet, recognized in signature works of Alvin Alley American Dance Theatre. Myers danced...

Jonathan Porretta: charismatic and intelligent, this new PNB principal has captivated audiences and dancemakers.(On the Rise)(Pacific Northwest Ballet Company)(Biography)
July 1, 2005... Eight years ago in The Village Voice, Kate Mattingly identified 21 "Players in the Field" who had "mastered a position in the dance world." Among luminaries like Ronald K. Brown, Bessie Schonberg, and Peter Boal, the list included "rookie"...

On broadway: the beat is back: Mambo Kings puts a dictionary of Latin rhythms on Broadway.
July 1, 2005... Back in the '50s, when it seemed half the pop tunes on the radio had "cha-cha-cha" in the chores, choreographers knew Latin dancing was de rigueur in shows--a conga in Wonderful Town, a cha-cha for Bells Are Ringing, a mambo for Damn Yankees....

Boston Ballet.(Wang Theater)(Childs' Ten Part Suite)(Falling Angels, 1989)(Sarabande, 1990)(In the middle, 1987)(Dance Review)
July 1, 2005... WANG THEATRE, BOSTON, MA MARCH 17-20, 2005 In casting the refined patterning of Lucinda Childs against the heavy-handed contortions of Jiri Kylian and the organized chaos of William Forsythe, Boston Ballet brought the question of what...

Stephen Petronio.(Joyce Theater, New York)(MiddleSexGorge)(Lareigne)(Prelude (2000))(Bud)(Dance Review)
July 1, 2005... STEPHEN PETRONIO JOYCE THEATER, NEW YORK, NY MARCH 22-27, 2005 Stephen Petronio produces explosiveness by establishing a solid foundation from which to work--deep plies; cross-braced, turned-out fourth positions; wound-up bodies that unfurl...

Northwest New Works Festival.(Seattle, Washington)
July 1, 2005... NORTHWEST NEW WORKS FESTIVAL ON THE BOARDS, SEATTLE, WA APRIL 2-3, 9-10, 2005 The Northwest New Works Festival, an arts marathon of four programs and two live installations, combines material by the freshest of artists with new works from...

Yin Mei.(Nomad: The River)(Dance Theater Workshop, New York)(Dance Review)
July 1, 2005... YIN MEI DANCE THEATER WORKSHOP, NEW YORK, NY MARCH 9-12, 2005 Yin Mei's Nomad: The River unfolded like a dream continuously on the verge of becoming a nightmare. Though Mei is a choreographer, she creates highly theatrical works using...

Compagnie Kafig at ADF.(Preview)(American Dance Festival)(fusion of hip hop with French and North African overtones)(Brief Article)(Calendar)
July 1, 2005... Hip hop collides with the concerto in Compagnie Kafig's remake of its 2000 Recital. Led by French choreographer Mourad Merzouki, this seven-member company fuses American hip hop styles with French and North African cultural influences to create...

Noemie Lafrance at flight of steps.(Preview)(The Invisible Sins of Fort Adams)(site-specific dance performance)(Flight of Steps festival)(Island Moving Company)(Brief Article)(Calendar)
July 1, 2005... "Soldiers waited for an enemy that never came," says Noemie Lafrance, describing Fort Adams in Newport, Rhode Island, the unconventional setting of her latest site-specific work, The Invisible Sins of Fort Adams. The work was commissioned and...

Corbin moves on.(RETIREMENT)(Patrick Corbin)(Brief Article)(Biography)
July 1, 2005... In a way Patrick Corbin, who has retired from the Paul Taylor Dance Company in order to pursue a career of teaching (he already teaches at the Taylor School) and choreography, is as W.S. Gilbert might have put it, "the very model of a modern...

Onna White (1922-2005).(DEATHS)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
July 1, 2005... Victorian orphans cutting up in London, jazz age socialites partying in New York, turn-of-the-century teens cavorting in River City--they all shared the rousing, high-stepping dances of Onna White, who died in April. Born in Nova Scotia, White...

Wilson Morelli, 79, ballet dancer, choreographer, and teacher, died m March.(MARRIAGE)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
July 1, 2005... Wilson Morelli, 79, ballet dancer, choreographer, and teacher, died m March. He appeared in 48 films including Daddy Loin Legs and The Glass Slipper. Between 1960-1962 he choreographed for the Los Angeles Opera Company. In New York, he founded...

Peggy Lyman, 54, former principal with the Martha Graham Dance Company, was married to Richard Hayes in February.(MARRIAGE)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Peggy Lyman, 54, former principal with the Martha Graham Dance Company, was married to Richard Hayes in February. Lyman currently teaches at the Martha Graham School for Contemporary Dance and also re-stages works for the Martha Graham Trust....

Births.(Emma Galina, March 2005)(Felipe Chamecki Brik, March 2005)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Irina Dvorovenko and Maxim Beloserkovsky, American Ballet Theatre principals (and DM cover couple, February 2001), welcomed baby girl Emma Galina into the world in March. Tap dancer Cintia Chamecki (see "Blame It on the Bossa Nova,"...

United States.(DANCE FINDER)(Directory)
July 1, 2005... 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 Kitty Scale, Dir....

Let the circle be unbroken.(A CAREER & LEARNING RESOURCE GUIDE)(30th annual Dance Concert and Pow-wow)(Thunderbird American Indian Dancers)(Theater for the New City, New York)(Brief Article)(Dance Review)
July 1, 2005... With descendants of the Mohawk, Iroquois, and Cherokee among them, the Thunderbird American Indian Dancers' 30th annual Dance Concert and Pow-wow at the Theater for the New City last February contained two weeks of spirited exchange between the...

International.(A CAREER & LEARNING RESOURCE GUIDE)(Directory)
July 1, 2005... ARGENTINA MANUEL VALLEJOS DANCE JAZZ STUDIO Lavalle 1579 C.P. 1048-Buenos Aires Tel/Fax (541) 371-6811 AUSTRIA SALZBURY INTL. BALLET ACADEMY (SIBA) Yehuda Maor, Ballet teacher/Master Salzburg Ballet. Phone +43+069911134586...

Somatic practices, movement arts, dance medicine, and yoga.(DANCE FINDER)(Directory)
July 1, 2005... Certification programs and training in Emerging and established somatic and Movement-based arts. Please email dcastro@dancemagazine.com to list. Phone (510) 339-7750. AERIAL DANCE/ ACROBATIC/CIRCUS ARTS NIMBLE ARTS, LLC TRAPEZE & CIRCUS...

Attitudes.(American dance style)(defining American dance)
July 1, 2005... What is so American about American dance and how did it get that way? Or did it? The subject of nationalism in dance has forever raised questions more vexed than simple. Nationalism in music, nowadays often used in a disparaging sense-slightly...