Dance Magazine articles from November 2005

Dance Magazine archives from November 2005

Curtain up.(gender issues of dance)(Editorial)
November 1, 2005... The dance field has long been on the front lines of the gender revolution. Choreographers have been experimenting with gender roles for years, and dancers are going outside of gender stereotypes to get their training. It's no longer unusual to...

Gelsey today.(Letter to the Editor)
November 1, 2005... I can't begin to tell you how delighted I was to see Gelsey Kirkland on the cover of my September issue! In 1999, I had the privilege of having her for a summer intensive teacher. She was incredibly inspiring, as well as a particularly eloquent...

Life of the leotard.(Letter to the Editor)
November 1, 2005... Regarding "In the Stretch" (September): In the mid-'70s, Robert Joffrey sent my mother, Estelle Sommers, some new milliskin fabric from DuPont. Estelle and Bill Merriman, a costume designer, designed a unitard pattern for Joffrey. We at the...

Unforgettable Ulanova.(Letter to the Editor)
November 1, 2005... Clive Barnes wrote in the August issue ("Attitudes") that he saw Galina Ulanova in Romeo and Juliet. I too saw Ulanova dance. I was a teenager and had been dancing ballet since I was 8 years old. Almost 50 years later I can still remember the...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
November 1, 2005... Eva Petters and Gregor Hatala from Vienna appeared in the International Ballet Festival of Miami (September, p. 85).

Living history: recalling the Ballets Russes.(DANCE MATTERS)
November 1, 2005... This fall's most gripping dance experience may be no away than your neighborhood movie theater-assuming yours is showing Russes, the extraordinary documentary about the dance company that wouldn't die. Five years in the making, spiced with rare...

Ballet--Bigonzetti style.
November 1, 2005... The last time Compagnia Aterballetto appeared on an American stage, the company danced a modern-dress version of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, set, not to Mendelssohn, but to a new symphonic score by rock icon Elvis Costello. This...

Attitudes for aspirin: a small leap for dancers' health care.
November 1, 2005... "It's terrible to have no health insurance," says Ofelia Loret de Mola, 26, a choreographer for the New York City-based company, Danscores. De Mola's story: She sprained her ankle while performing but couldn't afford physical therapy. In...

Alex Ketley, Jimmy Orrante, and Uri Sands are the recipients of the three inaugural choreography fellowships given by the Princess Grace Awards.(Awards and Honors)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... Alex Ketley, Jimmy Orrante, and Uri Sands are the recipients of the three inaugural choreography fellowships given by the Princess Grace Awards. The trio will create works for, respectively, Robert Moses' KIN (San Francisco), BalletMet Columbus...

National Choreographic Competition of Hubbard Street 2.(honered Todd Williams and Gina Patterson )(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... Todd Williams (New York's WilliamsWorks) and Gina Patterson (Ballet Austin) won the National Choreographic Competition of Hubbard Street 2.

2005 Ruth Page AWards.(Awards and Honors)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... Margaret L. Nelson and Scott Silberstein have received the 2005 Ruth Page Awards.

The National Dance Project has awarded $584,440 to support the tours of 24 dance companies during the 2005-06 season.(Awards and Honors)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... The National Dance Project has awarded $584,440 to support the tours of 24 dance companies during the 2005-06 season. Recipients include Anouk van Duk Company, Bebe Miller Company, Ben Munisteri Dance Projects, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance,...

Don't call it fusion.
November 1, 2005... While it might be hard to picture a gracious, 60-year-old North Indian classical dance master getting down with a freewheeling wunderkind from Bring In 'Da Noise, Bring In 'Da Funk, it was the universal allure of rhythm that first drew Pandit...

Metropolis by BodyVox.(NEW YORK NOTEBOOK)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... BodyVox, the good-humored, light-hearted company that straddles the line between pop culture and high art, returns to The Joyce November 15-20. They will perform A Thousand Little Cities, an evening-length work that expresses an acute sense of...

Batsheva close up.(NEW YORK NOTEBOOK)(Batsheva Dance Company)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... OK, I'll say it: Ohad Naharin is one of the greatest choreographers of our time. He has the ability to dig deep and let you feel a person's pain or joy or slyness or hopeless love. Always there is an urgency; always there is a moment of human...

Byrd flies home.(NEW YORK NOTEBOOK)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... Donald Byrd brings the 11-member Spectrum Dance Theater from Seattle to Dance Theatre Workshop November 2-12 with The Sleeping Beauty Notebook. He condenses and expands scenes from the classic work, using some of the original steps--keeping the...

Mind your body: visualizing the dancer you want to become.
November 1, 2005... Imagine you are a principal dancer in your favorite company. Then stand in front of the mirror every day and say, "I am a principal dancer." But don't just say it. Believe it. Look yourself in the eyes and really, truly believe it. Then be...

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, 2005... All I ever wanted was to get accepted into a major professional school that's affiliated with a company, now that it's happened, I'm sure they've made a terrible mistake. Why did I pass the audition? My parents don't take my dancing seriously....

Dance Magazine 2005 Awards.
November 1, 2005... On November 14, the 51st annual Dance Magazine Awards will be presented to five outstanding people in the dance field: Alessandra Ferri, Donald McKayle, Christopher Wheeldon, Jimmy Slyde, and Clive Barnes. The awards program, which includes...

Women on top: eight artistic directors talk about what it takes.
November 1, 2005... When an American ballerina hangs up her toe shoes, she may step out of the limelight forever. While her male colleagues might move from the studio into the executive suite, women ballet dancers more commonly continue their careers behind the...

A grandiva diva: a former dancer returns to the stage-this time as a ballerina.(Cover Story)
November 1, 2005... A dancer laces a pair of size 11 double-wide pointe shoes around each calf. Making one last check in the mirror for makeup and hair, Ashley Merrill-Lynch moves with the other corps de ballet members to the stage wings. One by one, the dancers...

The feminine mystique: all-female troupes continue a modern dance tradition.
November 1, 2005... In San Francisco choreographer Jo Kreiter's Whose Seeds These Are, a supple dancer crouches, arranging seeds with obsessive care, while a farmer reports in voiceover that his fields have been contaminated by bioengineered seed. On a stage...

Fear of men in tights.(male dancers's clothing)
November 1, 2005... When Victoria Morgan first arrived in Cincinnati nine years ago as artistic director of Cincinnati Ballet, she heard an eye-opening comment at a luncheon after she introduced herself to the wife of a well-known public figure seated next to her....

He said/she said: dancers and choreographers talk about the role of gender in their lives and work.
November 1, 2005... Jae Man Joo Growing up in Korea, being a male dancer was looked down upon. For six years, my mother kept the fact that I was taking dance classes a secret from my father, because of traditional views Koreans have on gender roles and that...

Warm & wooly: we've got you covered from tip to toe.
November 1, 2005... Warm-ups keep you cozy in drafty studios, protect you from the sudden blast of cold air when a stage door opens, and give your not-so-favorite body part a reassuring hug. Want to feel classy, sassy, sweet or stylish? There's a knit, fleece,...

Vaganova: A Dance Journey from Petersburg to Leningrad.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Vaganova: A Dance Journet from Petersburg to Leningrad By Vera Krasovskaya. Translated by Vera M. Siegel. Foreword by Lynn Garafola. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2005. 352 pages, illustrated, hardcover, $34.95. A...

The Lure of Perfection: Fashion and Ballet, 1780-1830.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... The Lure of Perfection: fashion and Ballet, 1780-1830 By Judith Chazin-Bennahum. New York: Routledge, 2005. 280 pages, illustrated, hardcover $85, paper $29.95. Like Ariadne, Judith Chazin-Bennahum sets herself a maze to conquer....

Bold move: female ballet dancers who take men's class.(TEACH-LEARN CONNECTION)
November 1, 2005... IT'S A WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON at the School of American Ballet. Light streams through one of the studio's high windows as a cluster of young men prepares for men's class. Over in the corner sits another dancer, tying the ribbons of her pointe...

The National Dance Education Organization presented its Outstanding Dance Educator awards for 2005 to Marty Sprague, Kathryn Austin, and Kim Stoud.(Kudos)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... The National Dance Education Organization presented its Outstanding Dance Educator awards for 2005 to Marty Sprague, Kathryn Austin, and Kim Stoud. Sprague teaches at the Providence Academy of International Studies. Austin owns and directs the...

Sharon Garber was honored for outstanding service by the CORPS de Ballet International.(Kudos)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... Sharon Garber was honored for outstanding service by the Corps de Ballet International. Garber, a founding member of CORPS, had a 12year performing career with Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Milwaukee Ballet, Fort Worth Ballet, and Dallas Ballet,...

A new scholarship for graduate study is now available to dancers through Career Transition for Dancers.(Kudos)(Sono Osato Scholarship Program for Graduate Studies)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... A new scholarship for graduate study is now available to dancers through Career Transition for Dancers. The Sono Osato Scholarship Program for Graduate Studies was established with an endowment gift of $250,000 in honor of the dancer who was...

The Chicago National Association of Dance honored The Joffrey Ballet co-founder Gerald Arpino.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... The Chicago National Association of Dance honored The Joffrey Ballet co-founder Gerald Arpino, teacher Bob Rizzo, and The Kehl School of Dance, which recently marked its 125th anniversary in Wisconsin.

Helence Breazeale has retired after 32 years at Towson University in Baltimore.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... Helence Breazeale has retired after 32 years at Towson University in Baltimore. Among many other accomplishments, Breazeale, a former dancer with Jose Limon, started an exchange program between Towson and the St. Petersburg Conservatory.

Cornish College of the Arts.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... Cornish College of the Arts will celebrate the 75th anniversary of Martha Graham's first solo performance at the Seattle institution with a performance of Diversion of Angels (1948), November 18-19. Former Graham soloists Peter Sparling and...

The University of Arizona Dance Division has become the College of Fine Arts School of Dance.(Kudos)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... The University of Arizona Dance Division has become the College of Fine Arts School of Dance. The change of status, conferred in July, allows for additional dance staff including one faculty member, a business manager, costume designer, and...

Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School.(appointments)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... Dennis Marshall and Marjorie Grundvig are the new co-directors of the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School, and Janet Popeleski has been appointed as school principal. Marshall was a principal dancer for American Ballet Theatre and San Francisco...

Ballet San Jose School.(appoints Yu Xin)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... Yu Xin or China has joined the teaching staff of Ballet San Jose School. He attended the Beijing Dance Academy and was a principal dancer with the Shanghai Ballet before he came to the U.S. Most recently he performed with American Ballet...

Dan Wagoner: teacher's wisdom.(THIS MONTH)(Interview)
November 1, 2005... Dan Wagoner doesn't just teach dance. He introduces his students to a lifestyle: the fusion of mind, body, and spirit that is rooted in a strong pelvis. He inspires students to understand why they must dance, and encourages them to bring art...

Nicholle Rochelle: this North Carolino Dance Theatre principal is glamorous, versatile, ambitious, and has endless legs.(On the Rise)
November 1, 2005... Nicholle Rochelle dances large. At 5' 7" she is a willowy, feminine presence onstage, drawing audiences in with her lucscious movement quality, extended line, and confident skill. "When I first saw her in an audition for the company I was...

On Broadway: back in Broadway's golden age, working women showed their clout.
November 1, 2005... For the most part, Broadway, musicals don't address gender issues directly. But in their sly, underhanded way, they have often managed to comment on them. For example, every lead character Gwen Verdon ever played, from Can Can to Damn Yankees...

Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
November 1, 2005... Les Liaisons Dangereuses Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, England July 26, 2005 Oozing magnetic sexual attraction and dressed in black leather trousers and jacket, Adam Cooper convincingly portrays the seducer Vicomte de Valmont in the...

Noche Flamenca Theater 80.
November 1, 2005... Noche Flamenca Theater 80 New York, NY May 4-July 31, 2005 Noche Flamenca's new show opened with the singers Manuel Gago and Miguel Picuo crying out with piercing intensity. The guitarists Eugenio Iglesias and Jesus Torres soon joined them,...

Emanuel Gat Dance.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... Emanuel Gat Dance American Dance Festival Durham, NC June 27-29, 2005 Emanuel Gat and his company from Israel performed his powerful, contemporary movement with a high polish without making it fussy. His choreography, though...

Now Festival.
November 1, 2005... NOW FESTIVAL Redcat, Los Angeles, CA July 21-August 6, 2005 More than 175 local dance, theater, and performance artists of varied stripes vied to perform in this year's New Original Works Festival, whose acronym (NOW) sums up its...

Preview: Lower Left's Satellite Project.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... PREVIEW: LOWER LEFT'S SATELLITE PROJECT "Keeping the postmodern premise alive!" says Karen Schaffman, of San Diego's Lower Left Performance Collective, about the mission of the group's Satellite Project. Dance artists from four cities...

Preview: Grand Rapids Ballet Company's Flickers.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... When artistic director Gordon Peirce Schmidt put a moustache on dancer Attila Mosolygo, he saw "the spitting image of Charlie Chaplin." Perfect, he realized, for Flickers, a 45-minute silent-movie ballet that is full of both dancing and...

Preview: The Washington Ballet's Carmen.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... For years, Septime Webre searched for the ideal Carmen, a ballerina who would possess the right combination of fire and ice, aggression and sensuality. Webre, artistic director of The Washington Ballet, found her in 2001 in the gifted,...

Wendy Whelan.(married with David Michalek)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... Wendy Whelan, principal dancer with New York City Ballet (see Dance Magazine cover, March 2003), married photographer David Michalek at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Manhattan last September. The couple met 12 years ago during a magazine...

Alfredo Corvino (1916-2005).(Brief Article)(Obituary)
November 1, 2005... Soft-spoken, kind, precise, gentle, elegant. These attributes are a small part of what made up Alfredo Corvino's character. His popularity as a teacher resulted from his extensive knowledge, his patience, his diplomacy, and his belief that...

Pat Murphy.(Brief Article)(Obituary)
November 1, 2005... Pat Murphy, shoe designer for Freed of London, died in September. Murphy came to Freed more than 10 years ago and designed most of its Dansport Collection as well as its current jazz, tap, ballet, and character shoes.

Stella Moore.(Brief Article)(Obituary)
November 1, 2005... Stella Moore, Philadelphia's grande dame of dance, died at the age of 96 in May. She studied with Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman and was a member of the Gertrude Gerrish Dance Company in the 1930s. She helped develop the Philadelphia Dance...

James Fayette.(RETIREMENTS)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... A guy's guy and a girl's dream, James Fayette, principal dancer with New York City Ballet, always encouraged colleagues to find the best in themselves and supported partners with supreme skill. Although he planned a quiet departure from NYCB...

Ballet San Jose Silicon Valley.(RETIREMENT)(Alexandra Koltun and Alex Lapshin)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... Husband and wife team Alexandra Koltun and Alex Lapshin, featured dancers with the Ballet San Jose Silicon Valley, retired from the stage in September.

Andy LeBeau.(retired from Paul Taylor Dance Company)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... Andy LeBeau, member of the Paul Taylor Dance Company, retired in August. He was a founding member of Taylor 2 in 1993, and joined the main company in 1995.

Boston Ballet School's Citydance.(appoints Gianni De Marco)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... Gianni De Marco has been named principal of Boston Ballet School's Citydance program. DiMarco has been with Boston Ballet for over 10 years as a dancer, choreographer, and school faculty member.

Schools, studios, colleges, universities, companies, teachers, dancers, choreographers, somatic practices, movement arts, dance medicine, yoga.(DANCE FINDER)(Directory)
November 1, 2005... 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 ...

Falling for folk dance.(A CAREER & LEARNING RESOURCE GUIDED)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... On November 10, the young dancers of San Francisco-based Presidio Dance Theatre will shed their traditional folk costumes and ballet slippers in favor of hip hop moves for Shake, Rattle, and Drop! The occasion is Smithsonian Teachers' Night, an...

Attitudes.(Editorial)
November 1, 2005... Maintaining ballet's repertoire is miserably difficult compared with the ease with which those allied theatrical arts, opera and drama, secure and honor their own pasts. The recording and reconstruction of choreography have always been a...