Dance Magazine articles from November 2004

Dance Magazine archives from November 2004

Tell us about it.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
November 1, 2004... I am a graduate student at Florida State University, and will be producing my thesis MFA concert this fall. I sent a press release for the magazine's Dance Finder listing to promote our concert. I did not realize that was a classified...

Gold mine.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
November 1, 2004... Jazz dance on Broadway and film has never been so wonderfully explained in print as it was in Sylviane Gold's "On Broadway" column in DM's August issue [page 77]. It's a pleasure to read such a knowledgeable article about this American dance...

Journal fantastique.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
November 1, 2004... I very much enjoyed the article, "Diary of a College Residency," by Henning Rubsam, from the June issue of DM [see page 57]. Mr. Rubsam educates his readers by sharing his experiences, thoughts, and feelings clearly and honestly. ALICE...

Onwards and upwards.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
November 1, 2004... Many congratulations on the terrific supplement "Beyond Performance" in your September issue. Allan Ulrich's interview with Evelyn Cisneros is one of the best I've ever read with her. I hope that supplement reaches all who need to know about...

DM rules.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
November 1, 2004... I think that DANCE MAGAZINE is the most valuable and most historical guide to dance. You report on classical and modern dance with class. WENDY STEIN OLD BRIDGE, NJ

Corrections.(Correction Notice)
November 1, 2004... In August's Education section on page 55, the web site for Barred for Life was incorrectly listed. The correct one is http://itrs.scu.edu/bfl. It includes commentary, photos, video and audio clips of the performance. A caption on the...

Curtain up.
November 1, 2004... Why were the dancers of Urban Bush Women wearing T-shirts that said "November 2"? It may be obvious now, but at the end of the summer, when the all-woman group performed Are We Democracy? at Joe's Pub in New York City, as part of the Imagine...

Alexei Ratmansky and the new Bolshoi.(Dance Matters)
November 1, 2004... THE BOLSHOI BALLET'S tour to the United States this fall is showing off more than the traditional tutus and macho men. Along two popular company brought its new Romeo and Juliet, which takes the dancers off pointe, makes them scream, laugh, and...

L.A. report: the language of curves.(Dance Matters)
November 1, 2004... IT'S A SAFE BET you won't have Los Angeles to kick around any more. With Walt Disney Concert Hall a downtown magnet for tourists and music-lovers alike--and dance fans flocking across the street to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion's...

Naked in the presence of his enemies.(Dance Matters)
November 1, 2004... IN MONTPELLIER some people tried to come onstage and stop the performance." Recalling the experience at a post-performance talk in Dublin two years ago, French choreographer Jerome Bel did not seem bothered by that evening's three quiet...

A moveable epic.(Dance Matters)
November 1, 2004... WHILE SHE can usually be found in Portland, OR, Jayanthi Raman and the company she directs, the Natya Indian Dance Company, are in the middle of a thirty-city tour of Gajamukha, a lavishly costumed evening-length production about the...

Jazz dancers jam Latin style.(Dance Matters)
November 1, 2004... BUTTERFLIES AND carnaval puppets lent a Latin flair to Jazz Dance World Congress 2004, held in San Jose, Costa Rica, in late July. The congress, founded by Gus Giordano in 1990, attracted 250 adult dancers, 85 kids, and five companies,...

San Francisco Ballet.(Fresh faces)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... The SAN FRANCISCO BALLET has hired NUTNAREE PIPITHSUKSUNT as soloist and MARTYN GARSIDE, AUTUMN GRAHAM, ALEXANDRA LOREY, JOSEPH PHILLIPS, and GAREN SCRIBNER as members of the corps de ballet

Ballet West.(Fresh faces)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... New to BALLET WEST are HUA ZHUANG, SILVER BARKES, NICOLE CHOULES, ROSS CLARKE, STEPHANIE FENZ, KATHERINE LAWRENCE, NYDIA MONACO, and JOSEY SILVA.

Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre.(Fresh faces)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE has engaged CHRISTOPHER BANDY, IVAN BIELIK, LAURA NICOLL, SAYAKA TAI, and LAUREN ZELT. STEVEN ANNEGARN is the company's new ballet master

National Ballet of Canada.(Fresh faces)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Recent arrivals at the NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA are first soloist BURNISE SILVIUS and corps member JOSHUA GRANT

Boston Ballet.(Life at the top)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... BOSTON BALLET has given artistic director MIKKO NISSINEN a new five-year contract (running through the 2008-09 season)

Tbilisi Opera Ballet.(Life at the top)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... American Ballet Theatre and Bolshoi Ballet principal NINA ANANIASHVILI will run the TBILISI OPERA BALLET in the Republic of Georgia

Limon Dance Company.(Life at the top)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... RANDAL FIPPINGER was appointed executive director of the LBMON DANCE COMPANY and Limon Institute

Suzanne Farrell Ballet.(Life at the top)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... SUZANNE FARRELL BALLET canceled its fall American and Mexican tour; insufficient funding is the culprit

Williamsburg Art Nexus.(Life at the top)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... In Brooklyn, the WILLIAMSBURG ART NEXUS closes its performance facility Nov. 30. There are no immediate plans for relocation

Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts.(Life at the top)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... The Alice Arts Center in Oakland (CA) has been renamed the MALONGA CASQUELOURD CENTER FOR THE ARTS, commemorating the African dance-teacher and city resident, killed last year by a drunk driver.

Dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov and the Brooklyn Academy of Music will each receive the Jerome Robbins Prize.(Awards and Honors)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Dancer MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV and the BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC will each receive the JEROME ROBBINS PRIZE (a $100,000 award) at a Nov. 3 ceremony at BAM...

Liz Lerman Dance Exchange.(Awards and Honors)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... LIZ LERMAN DANCE EXCHANGE has received $25,000 from the Target Corporation

BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange.(Awards and Honors)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange has announced that DARYL OWENS/RENEE ARCHIALD, SIGAL BERGMAN, and YASUKO YOKOSHI are its 2004-05 Space Grant recipients

Banff Centre Fellows.(Awards and Honors)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Canadians BRIAN MACDONALD and JEANNE LOUGHEED have been honored as Banff Centre Fellows

Former National Ballet of Canada principal Veronica Tennant was awarded the $30,000 Walter Carsen Prize.(Awards and Honors)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Former National Ballet of Canada principal VERONICA TENNANT was awarded the $30,000 Walter Carsen Prize by the Canada Council for the Arts

Hubbard Street 2 (Chicago) has chosen Steve Rooks, Johannes Wieland, and D.A. Hoskins.(Awards and Honors)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Hubbard Street 2 (Chicago) has chosen STEVE ROOKS, JOHANNES WIELAND, and D.A. HOSKINS as the winners of its sixth annual National Choreographic Competition

Los Angeles County Arts Commission.(Awards and Honors)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... For FY2004-05, the Los ANGELES COUNTY ARTS COMMISSION has announced $1,965,000 in grants to 204 nonprofit organizations, a reduction of 1.5 percent from the previous year.

California Arts Council.(Money Matters)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... California governor ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER has used his line item veto power to kill what would have been a $1 million increase in the budget of the CALIFORNIA ARTS COUNCIL. That body's budget declined last year from $17.5 million to just over...

After a pitched battle with the city's arts groups.(Money Matters)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... After a pitched battle with the city's arts groups, Philadelphia mayor John Street restored $3.5 million of the proposed $4.5 million cut in the city's arts budget

Pennsylvania Ballet.(Money Matters)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... In the same city, the PENNSYLVANIA BALLET reports that Christopher Wheeldon's staging of Swan Lake was a box office bonanza in June. The production generated almost $1 million in ticket sales, the highest revenue for any non-Nutcracker project...

Spoleto Festival USA.(Money Matters)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA also hit record sales figures for its May 28-June 13 festival in Charleston, SC.

Celebrating Meredith.(New York Notebook)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... A treasured American original, Meredith Monk has been making haunting dance/theatre and musical works since the 1960s. Kicking off the year-long celebration of her 40th anniversary will be concerts at the Danspace Project at St. Marks Church...

Movin' in.(New York Notebook)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Desmond Richardson, known for his spectacular versatility' (See DM cover story, February, 2003), moved into the cast of Twyla Tharp's Mop, in' Out on Broadway in August. As Tony, his duets with Nancy Lemenager's Brenda range from explosive to...

Deeply Feld.(New York Notebook)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... "I never imagined a ballet without imagining who was dancing it," says Eliot Feld. The choreographer, who abruptly suspended his company last year due to finances, returns with six of his favorite dancers for a limited three-week engagement...

The studio that never sleeps.(New York Notebook)(Dance Space Center)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... If you hear music just north of Canal Street, chances are it's coming from Dance Space Center. Between classes, performances, and wild parties, the twenty-year-old studio never seems to close its doors. Over 2,000 dancers each week enter the...

A close embrace.(New York Notebook)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Flickering black-and-white footage of old Buenos Aires opened Boccatango, the program that Julio Bocca brought to the Joyce last summer with members of his company, Ballet Argentino. In Ana Maria Stekelman's choreography, the uplift of ballet...

Fagan's winning ways.(New York Notebook)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Garth Fagan, winner of nearly every award short of an Oscar, celebrates the 34th anniversary of world-renowned Garth Fagan Dance at their annual Joyce Theater season, November 16-21. Born in Jamaica, Fagan has created a unique blend of the...

In a holding pattern? Try these yogas.(Mind your Body)
November 1, 2004... I RECENTLY OVERHEARD several ballet dancers raving about their yoga practice. My excitement quickly waned when I realized the real reason: the 108-degree heat in their Bikram yoga studio. They felt the sauna-like atmosphere contributed to an...

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.
November 1, 2004... I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO EAT. I NEED TO LOSE WEIGHT IF I WANT TO BE A DANCER BUT I'M AFRAID TO GO ON A HIGH PROTEIN DIET LIKE MY ROOMMATE (WHO LOST TEN LBS) BECAUSE IT MAKES ME WANT TO BINGE. THE LAST TIME I TRIED CUTTING OUT CARBS, I FELT SO TIRED...

Dancing through the dark: Pina Bausch finds a ray of light.(Cover Story)
November 1, 2004... One day the sun entangled himself in a tree, and the earth plunged into darkness. A little squirrel lost its tail, had its fur burnt off and went blind, but gnawed at the tree's branches until the heavenly globe could rise again. As a reward,...

Mixed emotions.
November 1, 2004... Pina Bausch spent three years in New York, from 1959 to 1962. She studied at the Juilliard School with Antony Tudor and danced with, among others, Paul Sanasardo and Paul Taylor. But before that she trained at Kurt Jooss' Fulkwang School in...

Less Balanchine: Terry Orr recasts Pittsburgh Ballet.(George Balanchine)(Terrence S. Orr)
November 1, 2004... One afternoon last spring, the music of both Felix Mendelssohn and Bruce Springsteen emanated from the studios and mingled in the atrium of Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre's multi-studio complex in the city's warehouse district. The rich...

Blame it on the bossa nova: Tapper Cintia Chamecki brings the rhythms of her native Brazil to a playful new fusion.
November 1, 2004... At one moment, the rapid-fire delivery of Cintia Chamecki's five-member tap ensemble sound big enough to be an entire orchestra, and in the next, quiets to a whisper. The performers onstage at the Duke Theater in New York City work each musical...

Body image: are tattoos taboo?
November 1, 2004... Salvador Dali had his mustache, Andy Warhol had his wig, and Wendy O. Williams had her duct tape. Artists have always drawn outside the lines in their work and their lives, decorating themselves as an extended form of creative expression. Over...

Get a leg up: top tights.(DM Style)
November 1, 2004... Tights are an essential part of every dancer's gear, but they don't have to be a bore. Forget choosing just black and pink--you can get low-waisted, high-waisted, shimmery, sheer, or sporty. Julie Fiorenza, a member of Alley II, likes tights...

Jerome Robbins: his life, his theater, his dance.(Dance Magazine Recommends)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Jerome Robbins: His life, His Theater, His Dance By Deborah Jowitt. New York: Simon and Schuster. 2004 619 pages. Illustrated. $40. Contradictions, contradictions. Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz became Jerome Robbins because he was ashamed of his...

Everything under the sun: studying dance at UCLA.(Education Matters)
November 1, 2004... The stomping rhythm of a tap combination. The drumbeats of a Ghanaian dance class. Voices yelling out impromptu dance combinations. A cacophony of rhythms and sounds stream through the studio walls and flood the air. Welcome to WAC--the...

Teacher's wisdom: Alfredo Corvino.(This Month)(Interview)
November 1, 2004... Alfredo Corvino taught ballet at the Juilliard School for forty-two years, and now serves as ballet master for Pina Bausch's Tanztheater Wuppertal (Bausch was one of his early students). As a performer, he danced with the Jooss Ballet and...

Kaitlyn Gilliland: she's a throwback to the heyday of Balanchine ballerinas.(On the Rise)(Biography)
November 1, 2004... Making predictions about a dancer's future can be a tricky business. But last June, when 17-year-old Kaitlyn Gilliland made her entrance as the Dark Angel in Serenade at the School of American Ballet's workshop performance, she emitted an...

On broadway: high fliers: broadway shows are taking off-literally. The Frank Wildhorn musical Dracula is the latest to make audiences gasp with its aerial choreography.
November 1, 2004... It used to be enough to dance, sing and act. But these days, to get a part on Broadway, it helps if you can fly. "The Greeks flew gods onto the stage in machines, and a century ago Peter Pan flew into the Darlings" nursery. But until recently,...

The Ashton Celebration.(Dance Review)
November 1, 2004... THE ASHTON CELEBRATION LINCOLN CENTER FESTIVAL, METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE NEW YORK, NY, JULY 6-17, 2004 Sir Frederick Ashton utilized ballet vocabulary as naturally as Sir Lawrence Olivier spoke Shakespearean verse. He understood its...

American Ballet Theatre.(Dance Review)
November 1, 2004... AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE NEW YORK, NEW YORK MAY 10-JULY 3, 2004 American Ballet Theatre's spring season always pulls out ballet's big guns to showcase its stars and thrill audiences with its large-scale ensembles....

American Dance Festival.(Dance Review)
November 1, 2004... AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL DUKE UNIVERSITY Durham, North Carolina June 10-July 24, 2004 Since modern dance must retain the capacity, to surprise, it's gratifying to note that the surprises started early--during Pilobolus' opening-weekend...

New York City Ballet.(Dance Review)
November 1, 2004... NEW YORK CITY BALLET NEW YORK STATE THEATHER, NYC April 27-June 27, 2004 This past spring marked the second half of NYCB's yearlong celebration of the Balanchine Centennial. The two-month span included four premieres: two by Ballet Master...

Carlos Molina arrives at Boston Ballet.(Transitions)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... After a six year career with American Ballet Theatre, Carlos Molina has accepted a principal position with Boston Ballet. Praised for his graceful line and sense of flair, Molina quickly rose from corps member to soloist at ABT, portraying...

Deaths.(Obituary)
November 1, 2004... Charles Eaton, member of a famous family of performers, died in August at the age of 94. He is survived by his 100 year-old sister, Doris Eaton Travis, one of the four living Ziegfeld girls and author of The Days We Danced: The Story of My...

Phillip Broomhead.(Retirements)(Houston Ballet )(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Phillip Broomhead gave his final performance as principal dancer with the Houston Ballet in June and assumed his new post as ballet master with the company in July.

Melanie Skinner, Alexandro Dickson, and Paul Gibson retired from Pacific Northwest Ballet in June.(Retirements)(Pacific Northwest Ballet )(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Melanie Skinner, Alexandro Dickson, and Paul Gibson retired from Pacific Northwest Ballet in June. Skinner, who has been taking courses at Seattle University through PNB's Second Stage career transition program, will continue full time in...

Clive Barnes, DM's senior consulting editor, married Valerie Taylor, former soloist with The Royal Ballet who currently teaches at Marymount College, on July 24.(Marriages)(Dance Magazine)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Clive Barnes, DM's senior consulting editor, married Valerie Taylor, former soloist with The Royal Ballet who currently teaches at Marymount College, on July 24. In 1953 Barnes had spotted Taylor, then a protegee of Margot Fonteyn, and wrote...

Schools, studios, colleges, universities, companies, teachers, dancers, choreographers, somatic practices, movement arts, dance medicine, yoga.(Dance Finder)(Directory)
November 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 THEATRE...

Jacob's Pillow magic.(A Career & Learning Resource Guide)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Students of the 2004 Jacob's Pillow Cultural Traditions Program immersed themselves in a two-week exploration of African, Cuban, and Haitian dance, music, and spirituality. The session was led by Jean-Leon Destine, a Haitian-born choreographer,...

Dance scape: dance images past and present.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Boston-based dancer Jennifer Hicks in her solo work, Venus Shrimp, a piece inspired by winters she spent on the beaches of Cape Cod and the play of ocean creatures. Hicks has been a member of Katsura Kan's kyoto-based company, Salimbanques.

Attitudes.(audience behavior)
November 1, 2004... TO APPLAUD or not to applaud, that is the question. Or, more complicatedly, how much or how little should one applaud? And if you can applaud, how about the why, when, and wherefore of cheering? And if cheering is OK, how about booing? And if...