Dance Magazine articles from March 2004

Dance Magazine archives from March 2004

No small change.(Starting Here)
March 1, 2004... Alvin Toffler wrote a book called Future Shock in 1970. In it he described effects of rapidly increasing rates of change on the individual and society, the shift from agriculture-based to industrial and post-industrial cultures. He went farther...

Feel better-read Dance.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2004... I have read DANCE MAGAZINE ever since my teacher told me about it over sixty years ago. Whenever the magazine comes in, I stop everything until I read it. Reading about something you love is also healing. MRS. HAROLD KATZER ...

Fair or fear?(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2004... After reading the article "Precaution or Prejudice" (DANCE MAGAZINE, November 2003, page 17) about Cirque du Soleil's dismissal of an HIV-positive performer, I was disgusted. As a person who works with children, I have to participate in...

Dancing toward peace.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2004... The informative article "Palestine Embodied" (DANCE MAGAZINE, December 2003, page 70) by Chiori Santiago shows us what a well-supported Cultural Center can do for youth, even in wartime. The Ibdaa troupe is invaluable in offering youth in the...

Diva defense.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2004... I found Allan Ulrich's article, "This Tutu Solid Flesh" (DANCE MAGAZINE, December 2003, page 21), distasteful and disrespectful. The fact that a Kirov ballerina has been able to transfer to the Bolshoi and create a following for herself is in...

Clarifications.(Correction Notice)
March 1, 2004... The photograph of Kyra Nichols with "The Incredible Lightness of Kyra Nichols" (DANCE MAGAZINE, January 2004, page 68) shows the ballerina performing in Donizetti Variations. In the Summer Study Guide (DANCE MAGAZINE, January 2004, page...

Space exploration ...
March 1, 2004... In September 1976, Freed of London ran on of the first ever four-color ads in DANCE MAGAZINE. Twenty-eight years later, Freed breaks advertising ground yet again with ther high-impact, innovative "french gate" cover. Let us know what you think...

Nederlands Dans Theater update.(Dance Matters)
March 1, 2004... Although he resigned from the artistic directorship in 1999, Jiri Kylian's 29-year relationship with Nederlands Dans Theater is still committed, going strong, and showing no signs of deteriorating. In a profession noted for its fickleness,...

An old master in a new frame.(Dance Matters; Merce Cunningham company celebrates fiftieth anniversary)
March 1, 2004... Chicago celebrated the Merce Cunningham company's fiftieth anniversary by opening a new dance theater. That's an overstatement, but only slightly: Two Cunningham concerts were the first full-length dance performances in the long-awaited,...

The Sacramento Bee.(Dance Matters)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... THE SACRAMENTO BEE has done the numbers, and they look terrible for the newspaper's home state. California spends three cents per capita per annum to fund the arts. In comparison, Mississippi spends $1.31, New York spends $2.75, Germany spends...

Cal Performances.(Dance Matters)
March 1, 2004... CAL PERFORMANCES (Berkeley) is one of twenty-one cultural organizations nationwide to benefit from the Wallace Foundation's Leadership and Excellence in Arts Participation program. Cal Performances gets $900,000 over four years

An Individual's Guide to Commissioning Music.(Dance Matters)
March 1, 2004... Choreographers wishing to work with original scores can consult AN INDIVIDUAL'S GUIDE TO COMMISSIONING MUSIC, published by Meet The Composer. For a free copy, call 212.645.6949.

The Rolex initiative: unbuilding the symbol.(Dance Matters; choreographer William Forsythe mentors dancer Sang Jijia )(Interview)
March 1, 2004... During the November press conference that concluded the first year of the upscale Rolex Mentor and Protege Arts Initiative, choreographer William Forsythe (mentor) and Sang Jijia (protege) cemented their bond. Forsythe told guests, "One of the...

Rocky mountain dancing.(Dance Matters; Denver, Colorado home to new modern dancemakers)
March 1, 2004... Denver is a newly gentrified metropolitan area surrounded by the rugged, snow-capped Colorado Rockies. Twenty-five miles northwest lies the city of Boulder, home to a matrix of new modern dancemakers. Boulder and Denver were once mining towns...

This tutu solid flesh: chapter 2.(Dance Matters; ongoing saga of Bolshoi Ballet's Anastasia Volochkova and wrongful dismissal suit)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... WHEN WE LAST looked in on sacked ballerina Anastasia Volochkova, her suit for reinstatement at the Bolshoi Ballet had swayed Russia's federal labor inspectorate to recommend that the company restore her position and award her the equivalent of...

Dancing on their laurels.(Dance Matters)
March 1, 2004... It's a no-brainer--celebrating the art of choreography for the camera (both film and television), at one of Los Angeles's ornate downtown movie palaces. In this ease, it was the opulent Orpheum Theatre, where greats like Ann Miller and the...

Far from home.(New York Notebook)
March 1, 2004... When New York-based choreographer Maura Nguyen Donohue led workshops in her mother's homeland of Vietnam, she encountered a dance artist from the Vietnam Opera and Ballet Theatre who dared to depart from the traditional Russian-style training....

Dancing in tongues.(New York Notebook)(Kenneth King)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Known as our only dancing philosopher, Kenneth King gave a rare performance at the Danspace Project last December. His buoyant prancing, animal alertness, cartoon hand gestures, and a certain, shall we say, postmodern enchantment remind us that...

Survival of the misfittest.(New York Notebook)(Stephen Petronio about his new work The Island of Misfit Toys)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... "Who doesn't feel like a misfit?" asks Stephen Petronio, referring to life on his favorite island of Manhattan. For Iris new work, The Island of Misfit Toys, he's selected music by maverick rocker Lou Reed. "Lou has the sweetest voice, but the...

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.
March 1, 2004... LAST YEAR I WAS STRUCK BY A CAR IN A PARKING LOT AFTER A MOVIE. AFTER NINE MONTHS I FINALLY GOT A CORRECT DIAGNOSIS WHEN MY KNEE KEPT RE-BRUISING ITSELF IN DANCE CLASS. NOT ONLY HAD MY PATELLA BEEN FRACTURED (WHICH I KNEW), BUT MY ACL WAS...

Mind your body: has yoga lost its spirit? This issue, Dance Magazine begins a new monthly column on the various somatic practices that now assist the working dancer and teacher. This first column focuses an modern yoga practices and problems.
March 1, 2004... YOGA, IN ITS various forms, is an ancient tradition of physical and spiritual practices. But today in the West, it is also a billion-dollar industry that markets longevity, weight and stress reduction, tight butts and abs, amazing flexibility,...

Lighting it up: the men of SF Ballet take center stage.
March 1, 2004... THE ASTONISHMENT starts on a blustery afternoon in the biggest fourth-floor studio at San Francisco Ballet. Bart Cook is rehearsing George Balanchine's Square Dance in the amended version of the work with the serene variation added for Cook at...

Paul Taylor's golden age: as the Paul Taylor company reaches its 50th season, the choreographer's innovative work has earned a place among the classics.
March 1, 2004... AN APT METAPHOR for celebrating the Paul Tailor Dance Company's fiftieth-anniversary season this March is an image of Taylor as a swimmer, which he was at Syracuse University in the late 1940s. As a choreographer he also plunged into deep water...

In the air.(Michael Trusnovec performing with Paul Taylor Dance Company )(Interview)
March 1, 2004... No one should have any problem spotting Michael Trusnovec when he performs with the Paul Taylor Dance Company. Along with being the only strawberry blond onstage, 29-year-old Trusnovec possesses the soaring leaps and hang time of a ballet...

Jose Manuel Carreno.
March 1, 2004... Jose Manuel Carreno brings unequaled gifts to the stage. As gallant a danseur noble as Peter Martins and as sensually passionate as Rudolf Nureyev, Carreno receives a 2004 DANCE MAGAZINE AWARD for significant contributions to dance. He has...

Ireland is modern.(boom in arts funding benefitting dance)
March 1, 2004... IRELAND HAS changed remarkably," wrote Diana Theodores. "It has gone from being an agricultural, almost third-world economy steeped in Catholicism and nationalism to suddenly being the hot spot in Europe, full of technological advances within a...

Back to Pilates: the Ron Fletcher work combines Pilates, Graham, and percussive breathing for maximum potential.
March 1, 2004... IN TODAY'S CELEBRITY-DRIVEN culture, Pilates--a style of body conditioning that's been around since the 1930s--is enjoying new popularity. Most instructors working today are not old enough to have studied directly with Joseph Pilates and his...

Body work basics: finding the right therapy means asking yourself a few key questions ...
March 1, 2004... IF YOU'RE A DANCER, CHANCES are you're training more than your body these days. The mind-body connection is the basis for many therapeutic techniques, and there's something for everyone--but the choices can be confusing. They range from active...

Gerstung Floor Systems.(Advertisement)
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Frontline TS1.(Advertisement)
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Act One Cosmetic Kits.(Advertisement)
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Tap-N-Burn.(Advertisement)
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Zoologik[R] System.(Advertisement)
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Teaching the Most Important Levels in Ballet with Mary Lynn.(Advertisement)
March 1, 2004... Videos presenting her proven syllabus for the foundation training and how to teach it. What is the secret to producing beautifully trained dancers? It's not just the syllabus, it's the teaching. "Mary Lynn has produced same of the best dancers...

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Modern Dance, Negro Dance Race in Motion Susan Manning.(Advertisement)
March 1, 2004... "With skill and condor Susan Manning disturbs the waters of our complacency and challenges entrenched assumptions about American dance. Her research is careful yet exhilarating, and sure to raise hackles in its canon-breaking interrogation of...

Tappin' with Judy tap class CD and video.(Advertisement)
March 1, 2004... Judy Ann Bassing presents fourteen unrepeated original and familiar orchestrated melodies for every style end movement in a tap class. Each selection on this fifty-minute CD has a completely different rhythm and sound with an emphasis on...

Pointe work: NCOP boosts ballet making to the next level.(New Choreographers on Point)(New York)
March 1, 2004... IF YOU'RE forever asking what's new among other things it's New Choreographers on Point (NCOP), an enterprising nonprofit organization founded in 1990 and devoted to, as its name indicates, the presentation of new works created in the classical...

The right fit.(New products--find your balance: great gear for body and soul)
March 1, 2004... STASHING Pilates apparatus, called reformers, can take up a lot of room. The new Rack and Roll Reformer from Stott Pilates is streamlined, stackable, and durable. It allows users to do all the traditional Pilates exercises and accepts Stott's...

Take a step.(New products--find your balance: great gear for body and soul)(www.yogazone.com)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... MASSAGE your feet and feel it throughout your body. These new "Reflexology Sox" from Yoga Zone have maps showing the pressure points on your feet. Press down on given points and relieve tension or clear congestion in corresponding parts of the...

In the mood.(New products--find your balance: great gear for body and soul)(www.nudgie.com/OYM.html)(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
March 1, 2004... DANCERS are turning to yoga as a great way to keep their minds and bodies tension-free. Dharma Moon's OM Yoga Mix is the ideal musical accompaniment to a reviving yoga session. It's specifically sequenced by world-renowned yoga teacher Cyndi...

Total treatment.(New products--find your balance: great gear for body and soul)(for legs, feet, and ankles from Origins)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... TREAT your legs, feet, and ankles with the Touch Your Toes gift package from Origins. After a long day of classes, use Leg Lifts and Step Lively Energizing Foot Cream to invigorate fired limbs in lime for evening rehearsals and performances....

On the mat.(New products--find your balance: great gear for body and soul)(Video Recording Review)
March 1, 2004... LEARN how to fire up your muscles and strengthen your body with a new video, Pilates Mat with Roller and Ring. Led by Pilates teacher Elizabeth Larkam, the video covers twenty-five categories of Pilates exercises on the mat, then presents...

Rounding off.(New products--find your balance: great gear for body and soul)(Ultra-Fit Circle from Balanced Body)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... CHALLENGE yourself--add resistance to your next workout. The Ultra-Fit Circle from Balanced Body is held between arms or legs. Push against it to add tension to exercises. Like Pilates, it improves balance, endurance, coordination, and muscle...

The Alexander technique: changing your life by changing your posture, a lesson with Jane Kosminsky.(Dance Magazine recommends: be gentle to your body)(Video Recording Review)
March 1, 2004... Wellspring Media WE DON'T do anything. We think," explains Jane Kosminsky, a former Paul Taylor dancer who now teaches at The Juilliard School. In this lovely introduction to the Alexander Technique, Kosminsky takes actor William Hurt...

Pilates mini-ball workout with Leslee Bender.(Dance Magazine recommends: be gentle to your body)(Video Recording Review)
March 1, 2004... Balanced Body[R] NEED a variation on your Pilates mat routine? In this fifty-three-minute workout, Pilates educator Leslee Bender squeezes a soft soccer-sized ball between her knees and ankles to add resistance, stability, and support to a...

Movement nature meant with Ruthy Alon, the Feldenkrais method[R].(Dance magazine recommends: be gentle to your body)(Video Recording Review)
March 1, 2004... Feldenkrais Resources WEARING a peaceful shade of lavender, Ruthy Alon rolls, crawls, and rocks on the floor. "Natural movement comes through harmonious coordination," says Alon, an Israeli who worked closely with Moshe Feldenkrais. The...

Soundpath.(Dance Magazine recommends: be gentle to your body)(Sound Recording Review)
March 1, 2004... CD envisioned and produced by Naaz Hosseini Voice & violin: Naaz Hosseini Dulcimer, tabla, & marimba: Bill Ruyle LOOKING for a soothing soundtrack to accompany your bodywork explorations? SoundPath, with its rising and falling vocals and...

In the spirit of Graham.(Education Matters)(Marianne Handy Hraibi)(Biography)
March 1, 2004... IF ANYONE can be in two places at once, it's Marianne Handy Hraibi. Determined to see the Martha Graham Dance Company perform in New York City on May 9, 2002, she was also scheduled to teach dance classes at the St. Johnsbury Academy in the...

Canada's Royal Winnipeg Ballet School.(Education Matters)
March 1, 2004... On March 22-27 CANADA'S ROYAL WINNIPEG BALLET SCHOOL presents the first live production of The Toy Castle, an award-winning children's television series. Jorden Morris, RWB School associate director, who performed the television role of...

Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies (LIMS).(Education Matters)(honored Martha Davis and Martha Myers C. )(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... At a gala performance November 25, 2003, celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary, the LABAN/ BARTENIEFF INSTITUTE OF MOVEMENT STUDIES (LIMS) honored MARTHA DAVIS and MARTHA C. MYERS with the honorary designation of Certified Movement Analyst...

American Ballet Theatre.(Education Matters)(www.abt.org)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE held auditions December 8 for the first class of its new preprofessional training program for New York high school students. The Studio Company Associate Program will accommodate the academic schedule of up to twelve...

The Juilliard Dance Division.(Education Matters)
March 1, 2004... In four evenings of world premieres, THE JUILLARD DANCE DIVISION showed the results of its fall semester, during which four choreographers were in residence to work with students and create new work. Thaddeus Davis created Beyond Two for the...

Jacob's Pillow and the Railroad Street Youth Project will collaborate to promote youth leadership and community involvement through dance in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.(Education Matters)(www.jacobspillow.org)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... JACOB'S PILLOW and the RAILROAD STREET YOUTH PROJECT will collaborate to promote youth leadership and community involvement through dance in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Elizabeth Johnson and Wyatt Jackson are artists in residence to teach...

Watchmaker Movado has created three limited-edition ruby, diamond, and sapphire necklaces to celebrate Stars and Stripes, choreographed by George Balanchine for Suzanne Farrell.(Education Matters)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Watchmaker MOVADO has created three limited-edition ruby, diamond, and sapphire necklaces to celebrate Stars and Stripes, choreographed by George Balanchine for SUZANNE FARRELL. One necklace was presented to Farrell, and proceeds of the sale of...

Trinity College of Music and LABAN in London will merge in August 2004, creating the first dedicated conservatory for music and dance in the U.K.(Education Matters)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... TRINITY COLLEGE OF MUSIC and LABAN in London will merge in August 2004, creating the first dedicated conservatory for music and dance in the U.K. While each institution will maintain separate degree programs, the partnership will allow for...

University of San Francisco dance majors join the Presidio Dance Theatre.(Education Matters)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO dance majors join the PRESIDIO DANCE THEATRE to conduct a year-round international dance program for K-8 students in twenty-two Bay Area public schools, www.ppaf-sf.org.

The Scarsdale Ballet Studio collaborated with the Hoff-Barthelson Music School for the November 2003 Scarsdale Ballet production.(Education Matters)
March 1, 2004... The SCARSDALE BALLET STUDIO collaborated with the HOFF-BARTHELSON MUSIC SCHOOL for the November 2003 Scarsdale Ballet production of Three Preludes by George Gershwin, choreographed by Diana White. www.scarsdaleballetstudio.com.

Hip-hop turns bunheads.(Education Matters)
March 1, 2004... "Right, left, up, down, slide, double turn, buh buh boom!" Bradley Johnson, 20 years old and teaching for the first time in his life, is calling out combinations to seventeen responsive students at the School of Nashville Ballet on a sunny...

On education.
March 1, 2004... THROUGH MY website advice column, I'm inundated with email from frustrated teachers and choreographers who feel that today's young dancers don't seem to possess the commitment or dedication to rehearsals and/or classes that young dancers once...

New in town.(Education Matters)(Eugene Lang College, New School University, New York)(www.www.lang.edu)
March 1, 2004... NEW YORK'S New School University, in the heart of Greenwich Village, inaugurated a new dance concentration in 2003 as part of its Eugene Lang College. Director Jaime Santora and a thirteen-member full and part-time faculty offer students the...

No small feat.(Young Dancer[R])(Dancewave's Kids Company, Berkeley Carroll School, Brooklyn, New York)
March 1, 2004... It's late on a blustery Wednesday evening and a bunch of eager kids of varying ages, sizes, and dance abilities cluster around David Dorfman in the refurbished basement studio of Brooklyn's Berkeley Carroll School. The students listen...

24 snores a second.(Rants and Raves)(The Company)(Movie Review)
March 1, 2004... WHY can't Hollywood produce a credible movie about ballet? Credibility is only an intermittent virtue in the latest candidate for that hallowed honor, Robert Altman's The Company, which is still drifting through American theaters after a...

Dance theater.(advertising musical theater)
March 1, 2004... IN THE EARLY 1970s, when Stephen Schwartz's musical Pippin needed a boost at the box office, Bob Fosse made a little TV spot featuring a few catchy bars from the score and sixty seconds of seductive, newly minted choreography for Ben Vereen and...

Next Wave Festival 2003.
March 1, 2004... BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC BROOKLYN, NEW YORK SEPTEMBER 30-DECEMBER 13, 2003 FOR SHEER radiance of movement, the European companies outdid the groups from the United States and Taiwan in this quintessential New York festival. ...

Minh Tran & Company.(Dance Review)
March 1, 2004... LINCOLN HALL PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY PORTLAND, OREGON OCTOBER 23-25, 2003 THE CROSSING Borders program bears most of the hallmarks of Minh Tran's work, but unfortunately not all. He has assembled a company of some of...

Les Grandes Ballets Canadiens de Montreal.(Dance Review)
March 1, 2004... THEATRE MAISONNEUVE, PLACE DES ARTS, MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA OCTOBER 16-25, 2003 LES GRANDS Ballets Canadiens de Montreal's new, revisionist version of Cinderella, with its pungent character roles, is both exhilarating and frustrating....

Dance Umbrella.
March 1, 2004... VARIOUS VENUES LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM SEPTEMBER 28-NOVEMBER 8, 2003 BRITAIN'S highest profile contemporary dance festival pulled out all the stops for its twenty-fifth anniversary. Hailing mainly from the United States and Europe, the...

National Ballet of China.(Raise the Red Lantern)(Dance Review)
March 1, 2004... SADLER'S WELLS THEATRE LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM NOVEMBER 11-15, 2003 FOR ITS return tour to London after an absence of seventeen years, the National Ballet of China brought a uniquely Chinese full-length ballet that was premiered in Beijing...

Vienna State Opera Ballet.(The Nutcracker)(Dance Review)
March 1, 2004... OPERA HOUSE VIENNA, AUSTRIA DECEMBER 9, 2003 NOT ANOTHER Nutcracker? Well, actually, no; it was not just another Nutcracker on December 9, 2003. Renato Zanella's staging of the old chestnuts, parties, Christmas tree, and mushy snow classic...

Riedel Dance Theater.(Dance Review)
March 1, 2004... JOYCE SOHO NEW YORK, NEW YORK NOVEMBER 20-23, 2003 THE DEBUT of Riedel Dance Theater was inauspicious at best. Choreographer and artistic director Jonathan Riedel is out of Limon--often far out of Limon. His dances were of two kinds....

Schools, studios, colleges, universities, companies, teachers, dancers, choreographers, somatic practices, movement arts, dance medicine, yoga.(Dance Directory)(Directory)
March 1, 2004... Contents United States 96 International 107 Somatic Practices, Movement Arts, Dance Medicine, and Yoga 108 United States ALABAMA ALABAMA BALLET Wes Chapman,...

Tumey retires from SAB.(Dance Directory)(Antonina Tumkovsky)(Brief Article)(Biography)
March 1, 2004... "I believe one of Tumey's greatest gifts is in shaping the essence cfa dancer. She not only promoted physical strength, but tried to instill in us emotional integrity as well," writes Wendy Whelan, principal dancer for New York City Ballet in a...

Dance scape.
March 1, 2004... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: Arab songs and dusty lighting evoked the heat of the desert in Alonzo King's Heart Song, premiered by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in December 2003. A review of the season appears in next month's...

Attitudes.(ballet and nationalism)
March 1, 2004... A LITTLE MORE than a half-century ago, a young but quite extraordinarily perceptive critic--myself in fact--in his first book, Ballet in Britain since the War, wrote: "One of the most significant differences between ballet today and ballet the...