Dance Magazine articles from October 2003

Dance Magazine archives from October 2003

Lean on me.(Starting Here)(journalistic ethics)(Editorial)
October 1, 2003... When a dancer puts on a costume, he or she that it will be safe, danceable, beautify the line and movement, and help portray the character or mood of the piece. When artistic directors or dance school managers order costumes, they count on the...

Positive Protest.(Letter to the Editor)
October 1, 2003... Thank you for your coverage of dance-makers speaking up for peace [June 2003, "Dissent and the Dance Brigade" and "Dances of Protest," pages 32-33]. It is brave and farsighted of DANCE MAGAZINE not to fall silent in the face of the current...

A dance missing in action.(Letter to the Editor)
October 1, 2003... Your June issue really addressed the issues of contemporary life. I was surprised, however, by the exclusion from your list of "Dances of Protest" one of the most powerful anti-war works that I have experienced: Meredith Monk's unforgettable...

Wild about Whelan.(Letter to the Editor)
October 1, 2003... It was fantastic to read Wendy Perron's article about Wendy Whelan in the March 2003 issue. Not only is Wendy one of the most astounding dancers of our time, she is also one of the nicest people you'll ever meet. She's a dancer who just gets...

A chance for dance in Los Angeles?(Dance Matters)(Walt Disney Concert Hall)
October 1, 2003... The distance is 137 yards--about the length of a football field. But when both the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Master Chorale move from the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion--their home for thirty-nine years--across the street to the...

A new era dawns for the Bolshoi.(Dance Matters)(Bolshoi Ballet)
October 1, 2003... "They need to dance more new ballets, more premieres, more challenges," says Alexei Ratmansky of Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet, of which he has been named the new artistic director, a post the 35-year-old Bolshoi-trained Ukrainian will assume January...

Farewell to the Prince of West 19th street.(Dance Matters)(David White)
October 1, 2003... On July 1, 2003, David White stepped down as executive director and producer of New York's Dance Theater Workshop after twenty-eight years on the job. To many people in the dance community, White is the personification of DTW, originally...

Changing rosters.(ballet company appointments)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... SOFIANE SYLVE, a first soloist with the Dutch National Ballet, has joined NEW YORK CITY BALLET as a principal dancer. * New to SAN FRANCISCO BALLET are NICOLAS BLANC, a soloist formerly with the Zurich Ballet, and corps de ballet member MATTHEW...

River dancing on the Southbank.(Dance Matters)(Laban)
October 1, 2003... Laban (formerly known as the Laban Centre) has been a creative hothouse for modern dance in the United Kingdom since 1938, when Hungarian refugee Rudolf Laban first introduced his ideas for a twentieth-century rethinking of traditional...

Sugarplums, call home!(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... The School of American Ballet will celebrate fifty years of children dancing in George Balanchine's Nutcracker at a golden jubilee homecoming December 6 at the New York State Theater. All former SAB students who performed children's roles are...

Better than birthday cake.(George Balanchine's 100th birthday celebrations)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... NEW YORK CITY BALLET will celebrate the 100th birthday of co-founder GEORGE BALANCHINE in 2003-04 by reviving fifty-four of his works, commissioning premieres from SUSAN STROMAN (full-length), BORIS EIFMAN (his first for an American company),...

Strikes cripple French dance scene.(Dance Matters)
October 1, 2003... France has long been considered a haven for youthful struggling artists. Throughout the 1970s and '80s, young American dancers including Trisha Brown and Carolyn Carlson helped shape the French dance scene as they escaped their desperate...

Honors.(awards)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Dance-choreographer BILL T. JONES is the recipient of the 2003 DOROTHY AND LILLIAN GISH PRIZE, which includes a silver medallion and approximately $250,000. * THE JOFFREY BALLET OF CHICAGO has been named the resident dance company of the...

How the arts fare in Pittsburgh.(Dance Matters)
October 1, 2003... What value are the arts to individuals and communities? Pittsburghers admit that the arts are enjoyable and strongly agree that they are crucial in educating children, important in preserving cultural heritage, and, according to some, are a...

Survival tips timely.(Letter to the Editor)
October 1, 2003... Bravo to everyone involved with producing Part I of "Survival Tactics." This is just the information I wanted back in 1991. I made my own successful transition from performing and teaching into management through creativity and great good luck;...

Mad about Mattox.(Letter to the Editor)
October 1, 2003... I was delighted to read Allan Ulrich's warm interview with Matt Mattox and learn that the great dancer is still in fine fettle. The reference to Mattox as dancer in the 1955 musical The Vamp reminded me how much I liked him in that legendary...

Quality journalism.(Letter to the Editor)
October 1, 2003... I thought the "Dances of Protest" inclusion in the June issue [page 33] was a good editorial choice. Regardless of my personal political views, I consider the role of media to provide the public with news about its industry and what it is...

Calendar.(Brief Article)(Calendar)
October 1, 2003... OCTOBER PERFORMANCES BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA Oct 7-12, Kirov Ballet, Zellerbach Hall, Univ. of California, Bancroft Way & Telegraph Ave. 510.642.9988, www.calperfs.berkeley.edu FORT COLLINS COLORADO Oct 2, Ririe-Woodbury Dance...

From Russia with love.(New York Notebook)(experimental dance)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... A handful of experimental dancers from Russia visit downtown New York on September 29. The free program, sponsored by Movement Research at Judson Church, includes Saira Blanche, a gently absurdist duo anchored in contact improvisation; Kannon...

Frankfurt finale.(New York Notebook)(Ballett Frankfurt)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... William Forsythe's Ballett Frankfurt makes its final appearance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival September 30-October 4, before disbanding next summer due to cost-cutting measures by the city of Frankfurt (see "Frankfurt...

Radical elegance.(New York Notebook)(Trisha Brown)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... The visual beauty of Trisha Brown's work is the focus of an exhibit at the New Museum in Soho from October 10 to January 25. Highlighting her collaborations with artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, Nancy Graves, and Donald Judd (at left, study...

Culture lab.(New York Notebook)(Black Burlesque (revisited))(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Reggie Wilson sees his collaborative project Black Burlesque (revisited) as a cultural, as well as choreographic, experiment. For the New York premiere at Dance Theater Workshop October 23-November 2, Wilson brings together accomplished...

Hollywood homage.(New York Notebook)(Gotta Dance! A Dance Tribute to Hollywood)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... In what promises to be a lively and star-studded event Career Transition for Dancers presents "Gotta Dance! A Dance Tribute to Hollywood" at City Center on October 27. Through clips of great Hollywood musicals as well as performances created...

Queens dance mix.(New York Notebook)(Chakra Shri Arts Theater)(Topaz Arts)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... More than 100 languages are spoken in fine Borough of Queens. The area's dazzling heterogeneity attracted Sridar Shanmugam, a former member of the Madras-based bharata natyam ensemble Chandralekha Dance Company. Shanmugam founded his community...

Real Sylphides.(New York Notebook)(Ballet Nacional de Cuba)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Coming from the country where ballet is as popular as baseball, Ballet Nacional de Cuba returns to City Center October 15-19. It's bringing a full-length Don Quixote, which will undoubtedly show off the virtuosity of its dancers--they can turn...

Advice for dancers.
October 1, 2003... RECENTLY, I AUDITIONED FOR A DANCE LAB, ALONG WITH MY CLASSMATES. THEY ALL GOT IN AND I DID NOT, DESPITE THE FACT THAT I HAVE BEEN STUDYING BALLET LONGER. NOW I AM FEELING PRETTY CRUMMY ABOUT MYSELF AS A DANCER. I'VE ALWAYS KNOWN THAT I'M NOT...

Health and fitness for life.(ephedra for weight loss)
October 1, 2003... I love the look of horror on my husband's face as I turn back side to him and ask, "Do these pants make me look fat?" I'm joking, and he wisely refuses to answer. Isn't it true that we all would love to find the latest vitamin or supplement...

Bill Evans: changing the body and the geography of modern dance.(Biography)
October 1, 2003... With his passion for dance, systematic approach to "conceptual" teaching, and extensive repertoire, Bill Evans, at age 63, continues to draw students from across the continent. At a reunion in Port Townsend, Washington, former dancers and...

Fully alive.(contemporary dance)
October 1, 2003... I chose dance--or, rather, dance chose me--because I rejected the competitive team sports I was being forced to experience as a child. I was not interested in learning the rules or skills of baseball, football, and basketball, where there is a...

Rediscovering Michel Fokine: by challenging Russian tradition, this modernist choreographer wrestled ballet into the twentieth century.(Biography)
October 1, 2003... In 1942, when choreographer Michel Fokine died in New York, the dance world mourned, lie was the grand old man of ballet modernism, the first to break with the "old" (nineteenth-century style) ballet and create classics that embodied the new....

Fokine favorites on tour.(Kirov Ballet tours United States performing works by choreographer Michel Fokine)
October 1, 2003... The Kirov Ballet (the company on which Michel Fokine cut his choreographic teeth, then known as the Maryinsky) is making a U.S. tour in October and November with a program of the famous choreographer's early works, all choreographed before he...

Depression in dancers: nobody's perfect--but try to tell that to an overachiever.
October 1, 2003... Imagine a dancer who gives the appearance of "having it all"--talent, prestige, admiration, lots of friends, and best of all, a promising future. Then, imagine this same person laid low by depression. Confusing? You bet! No one is immune to...

Not getting the gold is not the end of the world: silver medalists and other runners-up discuss competition.(international dance competitions)
October 1, 2003... Competition is everywhere. It's in sports, in business, in school, and in dance class. International dance competitions can seem overwhelming, but they are only amplifications of what happens in our hometown studios: auditioning for a...

Questioning the quest for gold: after twenty-four years, Rhee Gold gets out of the competition business.(American Dance Awards)(Interview)
October 1, 2003... "American Dance Awards started small," remembers Rhee Gold about one of the first major dance competitions that grew into a giant in the field. And now, in spite of its success, he has just sold the family business. In 1973, Sherry Gold...

Fashion's waltz with the dance world.(how styles in dance influence fashion)
October 1, 2003... If, at some point in your life, you've played dress-up in a tutu or worn leg warmers in public, you know that the allure of dancewear extends well beyond the theater. Ever since an extravagantly costumed Louis XIV played the sun god, Apollo, in...

Memories of Madame Karinska.(costume designer for New York City Ballet)
October 1, 2003... In the realm of costume creation and execution, Barbara Karinska was the quintessential artist and George Balanchine's choice collaborator. She was uncannily attuned to Mr. B's deepest thoughts and feelings about ballets and ballerinas and...

A consummate costumer.(costume designer Barabar Karinska)(Biography)
October 1, 2003... "Costumes [are] that which uncovers the soul," wrote the great theatrical designer Edward Gordon Craig. "The flesh and bones are the costumes of the soul. Reveal them then." He could have been speaking of the ultimate triumph of Barbara...

Before a show, but especially after, it's great to pamper your body backstage, and what better place to start than with your feet?(New Products: dressing room essentials)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Before a show, but especially after, it's great to pamper your body backstage, and what better place to start than with your feet? Montagne Jeunesse offers four foot treatments, using botanical aromatherapy essences in single-serving packets....

Bunheads has new gel products for protecting the feet from blistering wear.(New Products: dressing room essentials)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Bunheads has new gel products for protecting the feet from blistering wear. Ceili Cushions[TM] (pronounced KAY-lee) are adhesive pads that cushion the toes and heels and fit in tap, jazz, ballroom, and character shoes as well as shoes for Irish...

The GameReady Injury Treatment System.(New Products: dressing room essentials)
October 1, 2003... The GameReady Injury Treatment System offers an advantage in promoting quick recovery from soft-tissue injuries. GameReady delivers cold and compression, the two most important treatments to reduce pain, swelling, and tissue damage and...

Anyone who has danced her heart out knows that it is every bit as strenuous--and dehydrating--as any aerobic sport.(New Products: dressing room essentials)(Propel Fitness Water[R] from Gatorade)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Anyone who has danced her heart out knows that it is every bit as strenuous--and dehydrating--as any aerobic sport. Gatorade[R], maker of Propel Fitness Water[R], has added two new flavors of its Vitamin Enhanced Water Beverage: Peach and...

Before going onstage, you can use Pointe Bleue[TM] professional dance gauze to protect your skin.(New Products: dressing room essentials)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Before going onstage, you can use Pointe Bleue[TM] professional dance gauze to protect your skin. The cotton gauze tape breathes and slicks only to itself, not to skin, hair, or clothing, which means it's painless on removal and doesn't leave...

Kneipp Herbal Lotion.(New Products: dressing room essentials)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Can you ever have too much pampering? Kneipp Herbal Lotion is rich with herbs, enrollients, and vitamin E. Applying the lotion anywhere on your body provides long-lasting moisture, with a calming herbal complex of chamomile, calendula, and...

Trolley dancing: a San Diego partnership promotes ridership and dance-going.(San Diego Dance Theater joins forces with city's Metropolitan Transit Development Board to stage site-specific dances, San Diego, California)
October 1, 2003... Choreographer Jean Isaacs wanted to bring dance to public space and reach new audiences. San Diego's Metropolitan Transit Development Board wanted to lure people out of their automobiles and onto the snazzy red cars of its innovative light rail...

Hall of fame or glue factory?(Rants and Raves)(court ruling regarding aging dancers, Delhi, India)
October 1, 2003... You would think perhaps that in these enlightened times what is inelegantly called ageism would no longer be a burning issue--and you would be wrong to think so. Americans who ponder the fate of older dancers in their own society should take a...

NDEO research in dance education project.(Progress Report)(National Dance Education Organization)
October 1, 2003... The National Dance Education Organization (NDEO) will debut an important new product at its fifth annual conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 15-19. The Research in Dance Education database (RDEdb) is the result of a three-year...

Not thin enough: when losing weight becomes losing control.(Young Dancer[R])
October 1, 2003... I'm not sure when it started. What I do know is that it wasn't about being thin enough for a guy, or about not being happy in my life, and it certainly wasn't because I thought I was fat. For "real" life, I knew that I was fine. But for ballet,...

Russian study.(Teachers And Schools)
October 1, 2003... A two-day symposium on George Balanchine will take place October 31-November 1 at the UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN as part of its "Celebrating St. Petersburg" festival. The Suzanne Farrell Ballet performs an all-Balanchine program Friday night....

Celebrity schools.(Teachers And Schools)(Valentina Kozlova opens Dance Conservatory of New York)(Susan Jaffe, Risa Gary Kaplowitz co-direct Princeton Dance and Theater Studio)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... VALENTINA KOZLOVA, a former principal dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet and New folk City. Ballet, has opened the Dance Conservatory of New York for learning traditional Russian technique. 212.245.0050. * SUSAN JAFFE and RISA GARY KAPLOWITZ...

Changes at the top.(Teachers And Schools)(appointments at Washington Academy of Performing Arts, Royal Winnipeg Ballet School)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... DENNIS MARSHALL and MARJORIE GRUNDVIG became co-chairs for the Washington Academy of Performing Arts in Redmond. The husband-and-wife team has worked with many prominent ballet companies and schools, including American Ballet Theatre, San...

Kudos.(Teachers And Schools)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... CARMEN DE LAVALLADE is the recipient of the American Dance Festival's 2003 Balasaraswati/Joy Ann Dewey Beinecke Endowed Chair for Distinguished Teaching. The honor pays tribute to teachers who have maintained and shaped modern dance across...

Backstage pass.(author narrates the rhythms of preparation, performance and closure that accompany a stage performance)
October 1, 2003... The sound of Chopin on a distant piano--an chide--fills the very clean, open backstage of Yerba Buena Theatre at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. The scats are all empty now and the main curtain is down. Backstage is exposed...

New team in Boston.(Dance Matters)(Boston Ballet's roster of dancers)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Boston Ballet will mark its fortieth-anniversary season with a dramatically different roster. In addition to promoting Sarah Lamb from soloist ranking, the company has engaged three new principal dancers: Lorna Feijoo (Cuban born and formerly...

Dance theater.(Avenue Q)(Theater Review)
October 1, 2003... Broadway choreographers are used to making the best of things: Actors who can't move. Scenery that gels in the way. Musical arrangements set to stone. But when choreographer Ken Roberson signed on For Avenue Q, the first musical of the 2003-04...

DanceAfrica D.C.
October 1, 2003... DANCEAFRICA D.C. Various venues Washington, D.C. June 2-8, 2003 Dancers pitched their bodies across the stage and young musicians pounded out age-old rhythms at DanceAfrica D.C., which abounded with images of the African and African...

John Jasperse.(Dance Review)
October 1, 2003... Dance Theater Workshop New York, New York May 22-June 8, 2003 With his new duet, just two dancers, John Jasperse has created a dance for eggheads. The piece exploded the proscenium-oriented space of Dance Theater Workshop and incorporated...

American Ballet Theatre.(Dance Review)
October 1, 2003... Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center New York City May 5-June 28, 2003 American Ballet Theatre's spring season at Lincoln Center could be considered "traditional" for this company. Its roster of great dancers regularly rose to every...

Florida Dance Festival.
October 1, 2003... Temple Emanu-El and New World Dance Theatre Miami/Miami Beach, FL June 15-29, 2003 Lovers of the spoken word, take heart: Text thrives amid contemporary movement. At least that's what the twenty-fifth annual Florida Dance Festival...

Hamburg Ballet.(Dance Review)
October 1, 2003... Hamburg Stale Opera House Hamburg, Germany June 22, 2003 Marking number 125 in his catalogue of works, John Neumeier opened the twenty-ninth annual Hamburg Ballet Days festival with the premiere of Preludes CV--the "CV" referred to cello...

Tap Extravaganza[R] 2003.(annual performance to honor recipients of the Flo-Bert Awards for Lifetime Achievement in Tap Artistry, New York, New York)
October 1, 2003... Haft Auditorium, Fashion Institute of Technology New York, New York May 25, 2003 New York City's annual Tap Extravaganza is a chance for the tap community to not only honor its own but to catch up with acts from around the world. The...

Ann Arbor Dance Works.(Dance Review)
October 1, 2003... Betty Pease Studio Theater Ann Arbor, Michigan June 13 14, 2003 Musicians shared the performing space with the dancers at the Ann Arbor Dance Works concert, and audience members seated on risers only a few feet from the performing space...

Dance directory.(Directory)
October 1, 2003... Schools, Studios, Colleges, Universities, Companies, Teachers, Dancers, Choreographers, Somatic Practices, Movement Arts, Dance Medicine, Yoga ALABAMA ALABAMA BALLET Wes Chapman, Artistic Director Alice Cox, Director of External...

East meets West in a unique program of Healing movement.(Dance Directory)(Eastwest Somatics Institute for Dance and Movement Therapy)
October 1, 2003... The Eastwest Somatics Institute for Dance and Movement Therapy has announced its 2004 schedule of classes. Six-day intensives, as well as shorter programs for personal growth, will be offered in Kalani, Hawaii; Charleston, South Carolina; Osaka...

Denny Cohen.(Transition)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
October 1, 2003... Denny Cohen, the founder of Marden Photographers and the computer software business Dance Manager, and a long-time member of the United Dance Merchants of America, died of a heart attack on March 5, 2003. He was 61. Cohen created Dance...

Cholly Atkins.(Transition)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
October 1, 2003... Cholly Atkins, 89, a legendary tap dancer and choreographer for Motown Records, died April 19, 2003, in Las Vegas, where he lived. In his youth, Atkins worked as a Cotton Club chores tapper, in an act with his first wife Dotty Saulter, and...

Alan Howard.(Transition)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
October 1, 2003... Alan Howard, 72, one of the best-known danseurs of Sergei Denham's Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, died in Chicago March 6, 2003, after a battle with cancer. Howard, who received his early training with Edna McRae, joined the Ballet Russe at...

Vera Zorina.(Transition)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
October 1, 2003... Vera Zorina, a dancer, actress, and Hollywood star of the late 1930s and 1950s, died at her home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on April 9, 2003. Born Eva Brigitta Hartwig in Berlin in 1917, she studied ballet with Evgenia Eduardova and Victor...

Amy Sue Rosen.(Transition)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
October 1, 2003... Amy Sue Rosen, a choreographer noted for her haunting imagery, died of cancer in February 2003 at age 47. Born in Baltimore, she graduated from the University of Arizona, Tucson, where she was influenced by Bill Evans. Later she toured France...

Muriel Topaz.(Transition)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
October 1, 2003... Not long before her death, April 28, 2003, Muriel Topaz had the pleasure of learning that Undimmed Lustre, her biography of Antony Tudor, was to be reprinted by Rowman and Littlefield Publishing She was also planning a biography of...

Bertram Ross.(Transition)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
October 1, 2003... Brooklyn-born Bertram Ross, 82, who died of pneumonia on April 20, 2003, was one of the Martha Graham Dance Company's key dancers for two decades. Ross, who had been suffering from Parkinson's disease, was an art student before he began...

Janet Collins.(Transition)(Obituary)
October 1, 2003... Janet Collins, dancer, choreographer, and the first African American artist to break the color bar at the Metropolitan Opera died on May 28, 2003, in Fort Worth, Texas. She was 86 and had been in poor health for some time. Born in New...

Attitudes.(exhibition and performances pay homage to the Ballets Russes, Cincinnati, Ohio)(Column)
October 1, 2003... Serge Diaghilev--a name now more honored in the breach than in the observance. He neither danced nor choreographed; he neither created music for ballet nor designed--at least not overtly. Yet as artistic director of his own expatriate...