Dance Magazine articles from September 2004

Dance Magazine archives from September 2004

Salsa fever.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
September 1, 2004... First of all, I think the article "Salsa: Making Waves in the Dance World" [June, page 46] captures the essence of the current salsa craze. I agree with Ms. Sommer that salsa can begin with an argumentative discourse, "Do you dance on the '1'...

Picture perfect.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
September 1, 2004... I wanted to give props to photographer Len Irish for the gorgeous pictures of Alexandra Ansanelli in the June issue ["Force of One," p. 32]. They're sexy, artistic, interesting, and plain beautiful. Obviously he had some wonderful talent to...

Defending pregnancy.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
September 1, 2004... I have to believe that most of DM's readers were as offended as I was by the views of one letter-writer who wrote you about her feelings regarding pregnancy and dancers, which you published in the July 2004 issue [page 14]. For anyone to see a...

Rubsam recalled.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
September 1, 2004... Thank you for the wonderful article by Henning Rubsam about his residency at the University of Idaho ["Diary of a College Residency," June, page 57]. It brought back fond memories of when Henning came to my alma mater in California. He inspired...

Goodbye Genia.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
September 1, 2004... I read in the June issue about the passing of Genia Melikova ["Transitions," page 79], and even though I have not seen her since we danced together in the Grand Ballet of the Marquis de Cuevas, I am very sad she will not be with us any longer....

Pilates primer.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
September 1, 2004... I read your article on Pilates in the June issue with great interest [Mind Your Body, "Pilates: Ripe for Reforming?", page 29]. I am a working physical therapist and former dancer who has used Pilates and yoga for twenty years. I think some of...

Directory of ballet.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
September 1, 2004... In Linda Hamilton's "Advice for Dancers" [May, page 24] it states that The Dance Directory of Ballet Companies is out of print. That is incorrect; it is not sold in bookstores but can be purchased through me at $39.95 each plus shipping for the...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
September 1, 2004... The silver medal Sarah Lamb received in 2000 was from New York's own New York International Ballet Competition, not the USA IBC [see "Transitions," June, page 79].

Curtain up.
September 1, 2004... The poet William Butler Yeats asked, "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" In this issue, we ask, "How can you tell the culture from the training?" For decades, American audiences considered the Russians the purest, most exciting ballet...

Twenty tours for Lyon.(Dance Matters)
September 1, 2004... IF YOU catch Yorgos Loukos at home in Jean Nouvel's stunning, glass-encased opera house in the center of France's second largest city, consider yourself very lucky to find him at home. Loukos' frequent flyer miles might underwrite a trip to the...

Taking dance to the next stage.(Dance Matters)
September 1, 2004... IS THERE A secret code to understanding dance? How can female dance artists break through the glass ceiling? Is outreach succeeding? These questions figured prominently in Dance/USA's eleventh biennial roundtable, Taking Dance to the Next Stage...

Joyce Theater.(It's Now Official)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... New York's JOYCE THEATER is one of four organizations that will serve as cultural anchors in the major arts complex projected for the World Trade Center site. A prominent dance presenter since 1982, the Joyce will be joined by the Signature...

The board of directors of the Saratoga Performing Arts Center has reconsidered the cancellation of its annual contract with New York City Ballet.(It's Now Official)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... The board of directors of the SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER has reconsidered the cancellation of its annual contract with NEW YORK CITY BALLET. The company will return for the 2005 summer season.

Jennifer Monson, Jeremy Nelson, David Rousseve, and Yin Mei are the 2004 John Simon Guggenheim fellows.(Honors)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... HONORS: JENNIFER MONSON, JEREMY NELSON, DAVID ROUSSEVE, and YIN MEI are the 2004 John Simon GUGGENHEIM FELLOWS for choreography.

Capezio Dance Award.(Honors)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Tap dance artist SAVION GLOVER has received the fifty-third annual CAPEZIO DANCE AWARD.

2004 TDF/Astaire Awards.(Honors)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Recipients of the 2004 TDF/ASTAIRE AWARDS are KATHLEEN MARSHALL (Best Choreographer, Wonderful Town), DONNA MURPHY (Best Female Dancer, Wonderful Town), and HUGH JACKMAN (Best Male Dancer, The Boy from Oz).

Making dances together.(Dance Matters)
September 1, 2004... IN THE 1960s, when Margaret Jenkins danced with Twyla Tharp's original company, "dancers would stay with a choreographer for dozens of years," she says. "You were driven to work with someone because of their aesthetic or point of view. We might...

Boston Ballet has identified the late Dr. Beatrice H. Barrett as the donor of an anonymous $3 million bequest.(Money Matters)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... BOSTON BALLET has identified the late DR. BEATRICE H. BARRETT as the donor of an anonymous $3 million bequest, the largest in the company's history.

Stagestep.(Money Matters)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... STAGESTEP has contributed $100,000 to Philadelphia's annual Dance Celebration.

Anjani Ambegaokar.(Money Matters)(National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship )(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... North Indian Kathak dancer ANJANI AMBEGAOKAR has nabbed a 2004 National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship ($20,000).

Philadelphia's Leeway Foundation have awarded "Window of Opportunity" grants to choreographers Emily Hubler, Aryani Manring, Anna Rubio, Michele E. Tantoco, Kathryn Tebordo, and y (Austin, TX) has received $15,000 from A Glimmer of Hope Foundation.(Money Matters)(Glimmer Of Hope Foundation)(Dorothy Gordon Wilkie Johnson/Long Dance Company)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Philadelphia's Leeway Foundation have awarded "Window of Opportunity" grants to choreographers EMILY HUBLER, ARYANI MANNING, ANNA RUBIO, MICHELE E. TANTOCO, KATHRYN TEBORDO, and DOROTHY GORDON WILKIE JOHNSON/LONG DANCE COMPANY (Austin, TX) has...

Choreographers Hijack, Uri Sands, and Deborah Jinza Thayer, and dancers Toni-Pierce Sands, Peggy Seipp, and Julia Tehven, all of Minnesota, have received McKnight Artist Fellowships.(Money Matters)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Choreographers HIJACK, URI SANDS, and DEBORAH JINZA THAYER, and dancers TONI-PIERCE SANDS, PEGGY SEIPP, and JULIA TEHVEN, all of Minnesota, have received McKnight Artist Fellowships, each valued at $25,000.

Dance funding forecast: cloudy with sunny patches.(Dance Matters)
September 1, 2004... ON JUNE 17, the United States House of Representatives passed, by a vote of 241 to 185, an amendment to increase funding for the National Endowment for the Arts by $10 million, to a $131 million total for the FY2005 budget. If the Senate, as...

Rolex Mentor and Protege Arts Initiative.(Honors)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... JUNAID JEMAL SENDI is the protege and choreographer and SABURO TESHIGAWARA is the mentor in the second Rolex Mentor and Protege Arts Initiative.

Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Executive Director Sharon Gersten Luckman received the Arts & Business Council 2004 Encore Award.(Honors)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Executive Director SHARON GERSTEN LUCKMAN received the Arts & Business Council 2004 Encore Award for arts management.

Beyond performance: alternative careers in dance.
September 1, 2004... For many dancers, the ultimate dream is to perform as a livelihood. The reality, however, is that there are far more dancers than there are paid positions in professional dance companies. It is likely you will have to consider other ways to...

Setting the next stage: Evelyn Cisneros left performing behind, but not her dedication to ballet.
September 1, 2004... The Evelyn Cisneros era at the San Francisco Ballet ended with a gala performance on May 9, 1999, and no dancer could have had fewer artistic reasons to retire. For twenty-three years, SFB had been Cisneros' only professional home. She had...

A good cause for a career: meet the dancers behind Dancers Responding to AIDS.(Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)
September 1, 2004... Six weeks after landing her dream job with the Paul Taylor Dance Company, Denise Roberts Hurlin tore a ligament in her knee. It was 1989 and she was 27, in the prime of her dance career, watching the company leave for tour while she began...

What else can I do?
September 1, 2004... The twenty-four dance majors at New York's Adelphi University are more likely to feel the need to refine a developpe than to develop a retirement strategy. With onstage careers barely more than a sugar plum dream, why upstage their hopes with...

Resources.(Actors Work Program)(Association Of Arts Presenters)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... BOOKS Ballet Dancers in Career Transition by Nancy Upper. North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc. 2004. 270 pages, paper. $39.95. 800.253.2187; www.mcfarlandpub.com On Transition: Dialogues from The Dancer Transition Resource Centre...

Mining the past.(New York Notebook)(Big Dance Theater)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Big Dance Theater, a small collective of dancers and actors, creates mysterious collages. The new one, Plan B, draws on a crazy quilt of sources: Kaspar Hauser, the famous "wild child" of nineteenth-century Germany; former President Nixon's...

They know your name.(New York Notebook)(Peridance Center in Union Square)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... About 300 dancers a day gravitate toward Peridance Center in Union Square. With five studies and 159 classes a week in ballet, modern, jazz, tap, theater dance, hip hop, capoeira, yoga, pilates, and karate, there's something for everyone....

All around the town.(New York Notebook)(Dancenow/NYC)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Dancenow/NYC celebrates its tenth year with a ten-day festival (September 8 to 18) of 160 dance artists in nontraditional spaces. From the opening event at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center in Chelsea to two free outdoor...

Advice for dancers.
September 1, 2004... I'VE BEEN DANCING A NUMBER OF YEARS, BUT CERTAIN STEPS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HARD FOR ME. I RECENTLY DISCOVERED THAT MY HIPS ARE DEFORMED--THEY HAVE FLAT SOCKETS. NOW, I NEED SURGERY FOR HIP REPLACEMENTS IN BOTH HIPS. HOW WILL THIS AFFECT MY ABILITY...

Mind your body: have a ball relax, stretch, work the knots out.
September 1, 2004... WHEN FORMER Pilobolus dance captain Rebecca Anderson Darling talks on the phone, she's usually rolling her feet on small balls to work out the kinks. Often times she's also sitting on a ball, albeit much larger, so that she's forced to sit up...

Fall preview 2004.
September 1, 2004... You may have heard a rumor that dance tours are in peril, that halls are scarce, Euros are up, dollars are down, and entry visas for foreign artists are expensive and subject to political whim. So? The reality is that, all over the map, this...

Out of this world: Herman and Erica Cornejo are poised for stardom at ABT.(Latin Explosion)(American Ballet Theatre)
September 1, 2004... The streak of white soaring above the stage knows no gravity. When Herman Cornejo begins his solo as the newly married Franz in American Ballet Theatre's Coppelia, the familiar music and pastel sets melt away. His effortless triple turns and...

Sweeping the stage: why Latin is the New Russian.(Latin Explosion)
September 1, 2004... They're everywhere, and they're terrific. They have names like Corella and Garcia, Rodriguez and Salazar, Marquez and Molina, Reyes and Gomes, Acosta, Rojo, Nino, and Feijoo. They come from Cuba, Spain, and all over South America, and dance for...

The Cuban connection.(Latin Explosion)(National School of Ballet)( National School of Ballet )
September 1, 2004... IT'S A MUGGY day in late June and hundreds of nervous young students have arrived at the National School of Ballet in Old Havana to audition. Decked out in their school uniforms of mustard colored skirts or pants over black leotards and tights,...

Victor Ullate's students take off.(Latin Explosion)
September 1, 2004... VICT0R ULLATE'S ballet school produces dancers with enough passion to fire an entire theater. What's behind their bravura performances? Ullate himself, of course, who was so esteemed as a dancer with Maurice Bejart's Ballet of the 20th Century...

Russian Polish meets Latin charm.(Latin Explosion)(Interview)
September 1, 2004... FOR THE LAST fifteen years Irina Kolpakova has been coaching some of ABT's dancers. Among the principals who work directly with her are Paloma Herrera (Argentina) and Xiomara Reyes (Cuba); among the soloists, Carmen Corella (Spain), Erica...

Cool gear for cool weather.(DM Style)(Warm-ups)(Decidedly Jazz Danceworks in Calgary)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Warm-ups are essential dance gear. Layered or separate, they keep your body heated in drafty theaters, protect injuries like chronically crunchy ankles or freshly pulled hamstrings, and reveal a dancer's personal sense of style. "I'm often...

Mao's Last Dancer.
September 1, 2004... Mao's Last Dancer By Li Cunxin. New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons. 2004. 451 pages, illustrations, $25.95 It isn't news to dancers that Li Cunxin, who performed sixteen years with Houston Ballet and four with the Australian Ballet before...

The Black Dancing Body: a Geography from Coon to Cool.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... The Black Dancing Body: A Geography from Coon to Cool By Brenda Dixon Gottschild. New York, Palgrave MacMillan, 2003. 332 pages, illustrations, Cloth, $29.95 As implied by Brenda Dixon Gottschild's full title, the black dancing body is a...

Caribbean Dance from Abakua to Zouk: How Movement Shapes Identity.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Caribbean Dance from Abakua to Zouk: How Movement Shapes Identity Edited by Susanna Sloat. Gainesville, FL University Press of Florida. 2002. 400 pages. Cloth. $39.95 This volume grows on you--like an infections mambo that gradually...

ACDFA showcases college dance in Washington, D.C.(Education Matters)
September 1, 2004... THE TERRACE Theater of Washington D.C.'s John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts crackled with excitement as capacity audiences of dance students and teachers watched the American College Dance Festival Association's eleventh biannual...

Success story.(Education Matters)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... ACDFA brought New York-based dancer Paul Matteson full circle this year. In 1996, representing Middlebury College in Vermont, Matteson won the award for out standing student choreographer, which he credits with catapulting him into a...

Teacher's wisdom.(This month: Jorge Esquivel)(Ballet Nacional de Cuba)(Interview)
September 1, 2004... At 54, Jorge Esquivel has the noble bearing that marked his fourteen-year career with the Ballet Nacional de Cuba. He gained international recognition as the chivalrous partner of Alicia Alonso in the 1960s and '70s, and now brings the benefits...

Lia Cirio: Boston Ballet's newest it girl.(On the Rise)(Wang Theatre in Boston)
September 1, 2004... In the vast baroque expanse of the Wang Theatre in Boston, a dancer without bigger-than-life brio can easily be swallowed by the space. Not Lia Cirio. When she appears in a third act pas de cinque in Boston Ballet's spring production of Swan...

On Broadway: the 2004-2005 season offers a Sondheim revival, a showcase for Jerry Mitchell's choreography, and, finally, Jerry Springer--The Opera.
September 1, 2004... Tradition, tradition--tradition!" They're singing and dancing its praises in David Leveaux's clear eyed revival of Fiddler on the Roof, and it's to honor tradition that this column once again attempts to look into the future. Close readers know...

San Francisco Ballet.
September 1, 2004... SAN FRANCISCO BALLET WAR MEMORIAL OPERA HOUSE SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA JANUARY 28-MAY 9, 2004 It took o full-length world premiere by Mark Morris to draw the international press to San Francisco Ballet in 2004, but that choreographic coup...

Martha Graham Dance Company.
September 1, 2004... MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY CITY CENTER NEW YORK, NEW YORK APRIL 14-25, 2004 In the thirteen years since Martha Graham's death, many of us have watched and waited. How would the court battles over custody of her repertoire be resolved? Who...

Pascal Rioult Dance Theatre.
September 1, 2004... PASCAL RIOULT DANCE THEATRE JOYCE THEATER NEW YORK, NEW YORK MAY 4-9, 2004 Pascal Rioult has developed a signature style of choreography that, although based on archetypal modern dance, is unique without being terribly quirky. Martha...

Hong Kong Ballet.(Hong Kong Ballet)
September 1, 2004... HONG KONG BALLET ST. LAWRENCE CENTRE FOR THE ARTS TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA MAY 7, 2004 Stephen Jefferies, artistic director of the Hong Kong Ballet, says it took him seven years to devise his two-act spectacle, Legend of the Great Archer....

Washington Ballet.
September 1, 2004... WASHINGTON BALLET ENGLAND STUDIO THEATRE WASHINGTON BALLET BUILDING WASHINGTON, D.C. APRIL 28-MAY 16, 2004 Forget the uncomfortable seats and obstructed views: The Washington Ballet looked gorgeous in "7x7: Love"--seven seven-minute-long...

La Scala Ballet.
September 1, 2004... LA SCALA BALLET TEATRO DEGLI ARCIMBOLDI MILAN, ITALY MAY 18-23, 2004 Generations of Italian ballet-goers have grown up with images of Maurice Bejart's epic theater-dance, so it's no surprise that the Italian ballet community is first in...

A salute to Ethan Brown.(Transitions)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... American Ballet Theatre soloist Ethan Brown drew his sword for the last time when the company gave its final Romeo and Juliet during the New York spring season. Brown's performance as Tybalt brought to a close a twenty-three year ABT career....

Remembering Carlos Orta (1944-2004).(Transitions)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... It was never a surprise when audience members at Limon Dance Company performances mistook Carlos Orta for Jose Limon. While the printed program clearly indicated that Limon died in 1972, Carlos' powerful presence convinced viewers that they...

Deaths.(Obituary)
September 1, 2004... Leroy Meyers, tap dancer and manager of the legendary Copasetics tap ensemble, died in May. He was 84. Mike Jordan, former Broadway dancer and current owner and director of the 78-year-old Betty Spooner Creative Arts Foundation in Everett,...

Births.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Adriana Suarez [See "Baby Boom," April, page 38] and Gino Di Marco, both dancers with Boston Ballet, became the proud parents of Adriano Valentino Di Marco in May.

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

Teaching ballet with the passion of Tango.(A Career & Learning Resource Guide)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... IN JUNE, Hector Zaraspe retired from The Juilliard School, where he served on the faculty for thirty-four years. Originally hired to cover Anthony Tudor's classes in 1970, he then joined Jose Limon, Alfredo Corvino, Anna Sokolow, and Tudor as a...

Attitudes.
September 1, 2004... FOR ALL ITS merits and many advocates, the short story has never really held its own against the full-length novel as a literary form. There are one-act plays, but they cut comparatively little dramatic ice. And in opera, while Cavalleria...