Friday, April 26, 2019
It was yet another Nutcracker season at New York City Ballet (NYCB), and the company was getting more and more letters questioning the offensive, stereotypical Chinese variation. NYCB solois…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 04:37AMDancers often see motherhood as a completely separate entity from their performance life. The thought of managing a career and parenthood is overwhelming to say the least, not to mention wh…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 04:30AMBrandi Nichols grew up in Newport, Oregon, where she regarded herself as mainly a tap dancer, with a toe dipped into the musical theater world. After high school, Nichols spent a summer in A…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 03:16AMHow much do dancemakers create for themselves, and how much do they create for those who view their works? It’s a perennial tension in dancemaking — particularly in contemporary dance, w…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 03:14AMWednesday, April 24, 2019
Most young ballerinas dream of someday going en pointe. Pointe shoes are beautiful – new and shiny – and pointe dancers look otherworldly – graceful and ethereal. But some young dancer…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 07:10AMIn 2003, Dana Tai Soon Burgess created a work on an immigrant experience that his own immediate family members experienced — coming to Hawaii from Korea to work on sugarcane and pineapple …
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 07:07AMMonday, April 22, 2019
It’s sometimes said that art can act as a mirror to life, to reflect the world back at us so that we can see it anew — or, sometimes, really see parts of it for the first time. The latte…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 09:02PMAuditions can be daunting, but they can also be exhilarating; a room full of dancers who are trying to get the same spot you are, but also a way to meet people of the same age who have simil…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 05:22AMThursday, April 18, 2019
The World of Dance competition continued to heat up as the Junior Division numbers had the chance to compete to get one step closer to the ultimate prize. Everything was on the line in thi…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 09:24PMWednesday, April 17, 2019
Urbanity Dance, Boston, Massachusetts. March 10, 2019. Wonderful dancing is wonderful dancing. It alone can be more than enough to create an engaging, memorable work of dance art. Yet strong…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 09:07PMMonday, April 15, 2019
The World of Dance competition continued to heat up as the Junior Team acts faced off for a spot in the Cut round. The two highest scoring eliminated acts from the Junior Team Division wen…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 10:50PMBoston University Dance Theater, Boston, MA. March 30, 2019. Kristin Wagner, creative director of Lady Bos Productions, opened up the second installment of her show, “….that’s what sh…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 09:54PMSunday, April 14, 2019
It’s odd, but true. I still vividly remember certain sounds that wafted up to me in the second balcony of the St. James Theatre on Broadway in 1944 when, as a teenager, I saw the original …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 03:39PMThursday, April 11, 2019
Circle in the Square, New York, NY. April 6, 2019. Amidst Broadway’s jukebox shows, Disney productions and movies-turned-musicals, another trend of late is the ever-controversial reimagine…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 10:25PMWhat do you get when you cross humility, talent, dedication, spirituality, and humanity? You get an actor who can move audiences in performance as Martin Luther King, Jr., Coalhouse Walker, …
SOURCE: www.drdrama.com at 06:26AMWednesday, April 10, 2019
92nd Street Y, New York, NY. March 16, 2019. Life in 2019 seems full of shifts, changes, and stirrings — in our minds, in how we travel, in where we work, in where we live. Sociopolitical…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 10:04PMRosecliff Mansion, Newport, Rhode Island. March 9, 2019. When it comes to programming a multi-work dance performance, what does “diversity” mean? How might artistic directors create it…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 09:12PMThe cover of the Playbill for this John Guare play shows a terrified older gent hanging on to the sides of a small boat that is being tossed about by a wild body of water. By the end of th…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 09:57AMThe rise in popularity of non-dairy milk alternatives can be attributed to many diverse reasons, including increased awareness of their health benefits, possible concerns over dairy allergie…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 07:50AMTuesday, April 9, 2019
Boston Opera House, Boston, MA. March 21, 2019. When you think of a classical story ballet, what comes to mind? Fairies, princes and princesses? Unrequited or otherwise problematic romantic …
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 11:00PMComplexions Contemporary Ballet celebrated its 25th anniversary during its recent Joyce Theater run, which culminated last month. The company, led by Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson, …
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 07:51PMMonday, April 8, 2019
April is Parkinson’s Disease Awareness Month. If you are not familiar with it, Parkinson’s disease is a disorder of the central nervous system that affects movement. It is often marked b…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 09:56AMOne could look at all the suffering in the world and say, “What could I possibly do to help? There’s just so much pain out there.” Arguably, the people who have truly made a difference…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 09:46AMSaturday, April 6, 2019
Believe it or not, recital will be here before we know it. It’s certainly an exciting time of year, as you teach and drill choreography, have your students try on costumes, hold photo day …
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 07:45AMThursday, April 4, 2019
In this month’s installment of Spotlight on the Teacher, Dance Informa recognizes renowned ballet teacher Marica Dale Weary, who recently passed away this past March, and whose graduates f…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 08:42AMWednesday, April 3, 2019
Does dance have a sense of place to you? Do you connect it with certain spaces, buildings, towns? Does it have certain cultural, national or family connections for you? Yasmeen Audi seems to…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 08:18AMFor dancers, getting injured is sadly both not at all uncommon and not at all easy. Even apart from physical discomforts and challenges, there can be much to face mentally, emotionally and s…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 08:08AMSpring has sprung, and for many of us that means time to do some spring cleaning. Consider that our apartments aren’t the only things that needs to be cleaner. We can use this time of year…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 04:41AMTuesday, April 2, 2019
Collaborating is central to most, if not all, creative projects and processes (solo projects might be an exception, but even in those no one creates in a total vacuum). At the same time, the…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 08:00AMA new short dance film is preparing to drop later this year, and it’s unlike anything you have ever seen. Sound Language, which will feature leading tap dancers like Nicholas Van Young of…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 05:30AMMonday, April 1, 2019
Preparing for a competition at the level of the Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) Finals requires dedication, rehearsal and discipline that is similar to Olympic preparation. Like Olympic athl…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 04:26AM 
