Legendary Ballet School to Close
August 24, 2010 · Posted by Dancing Perfectly Free ·
Irine Fokine, photo by Chris Peters for NorthJersey.com
After more than sixty years, the Irine Fokine School of Ballet of Ridgewood, New Jersey is closing. Founded by Fokine, the Russian-born daughter of Maryinsky Theater prima ballerina Alexandra Fedorova and the niece of choreographer Michel Fokine, the school was a mainstay of Ridgewood. It also happens to be the school where I studied ballet intensively for many years, starting when I was seven. I took my first point class and first partnering class there, and performed in my first of countless Nutcracker productions. The environment at the school was strict, sometimes frighteningly ...
Crossing the Line 2010
August 23, 2010 · Posted by Dancing Perfectly Free ·
Once again, the lineup for FIAF’s annual Crossing the Line festival looks fantastic. The offerings include performances by Raimund Houghe, Farm City’s fair, film, and tour celebrating urban agriculture, a site-specific performance of the play Hetero, Willi Dorner’s Bodies in Urban Spaces at sunrise and sunset, and a conversation with Philip Glass and Matthieu Ricard on contemplation and creativity. The festival opens September 10th. Watch the nifty little trailer and get excited.
Paris Opera Ballet Performs Kaguyahime
August 10, 2010 · Posted by Dancing Perfectly Free ·
While visiting Paris last month, I had the chance to see Paris Opera Ballet in Jiří Kylián’s 1988 Kaguyahime, performed at the cavernous Bastille Opera House. It was quite a treat. Dance Magazine published my review, so follow this link to read about the performance.
PRESS RELEASE: Robert Sterling Clark Foundation awards Dance Theater Workshop $75K
July 26, 2010 · Posted by Dance Theater Workshop ·
DANCE THEATER WORKSHOP
is awarded $75K from Robert Sterling Clark Foundation
to expand
The Suitcase Fund:
A Project of Ideas and Means in Cross-Cultural Artist Relations
into the Middle East and Africa
New York, NY, JULY 21, 2010 – Dance Theater Workshop, the preeminent U.S. based center for contemporary dance and performance, was named today as a recipient of a $75,000 grant from the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation to be used to expand The Suitcase Fund: A Project of Ideas and Means in Cross-Cultural Artist Relations.
Founded in 1985 The Suitcase Fund seeks to:
· Facilitate access to other cultures by providing artists with opportunities to ...
Visiting the Palais Garnier in Paris
July 23, 2010 · Posted by Dancing Perfectly Free ·
The exterior of the Palais Garnier
Earlier this month I spent a very busy week in the wonderful city of Paris. While New York City was apparently scorching, the City of Light was having a heat wave of its own with absolutely no rain. Fortunately, that boded well for sight-seeing, lots of walking, and dining outdoors at brasseries (one of my favorite things about Paris was that the sun didn’t set until about 10 PM, and it wasn’t pitch black until close to midnight!).
In addition to getting lost in the Louvre, boating on the Seine, praising the efficiency of the Metro ...
Sustainable Dance Floor XL
July 11, 2010 · Posted by Dancing Perfectly Free ·
At the 2010 Winter Olympics, over 8,000,000 watts of energy were generated less than a week into the games thanks to Sustainable Dance Floor, a special floor that produces energy as people dance on it. Sustainable Dance Floor is a product of Sustainable Dance Club (SDC), a Rotterdam-based company that enables clubs, festivals, and events to become more sustainable by combining creative approaches with innovative technologies. SDC recently released Sustainable Dance Floor XL, a short video that visualizes how dancers’ movements can create energy on a stadium-sized floor (which lights up just like the floor in Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean” ...
ZviDance at Celebrate Brooklyn
June 29, 2010 · Posted by Dancing Perfectly Free ·
Aaron Carr and Alison Brigham Clancy in ZOOM, photo by Julieta Cervantes
On Thursday evening, July 1st, ZviDance presents ZOOM at the Prospect Park Bandshell as part of Celebrate Brooklyn! ZOOM integrates dance, cell phones, video projection, a real-time web interface, and live music. Conceived by Israeli-born artistic director Zvi Gotheiner and his creative team, ZOOM shatters the wall between audience and performers, creating a new interactive performance environment. Photos and text messages from the audience are used to create real-time video collages. Without the use of words, the audience crosses the proscenium to take close-ups of the performers, finding themselves ...
Baryshnikov and Laguna to Perform in Israel
June 25, 2010 · Posted by Dancing Perfectly Free ·
The trailer for Mats Ek’s Place with Mikhail Baryshnikov and Ana Laguna
Mikhail Baryshnikov and Ana Laguna are currently in Israel, where they’ll perform at the Suzanne Dellal Centre for Dance and the Herzliya Performing Arts Center. The program, called Three Solos and a Duet, features the two dancers sharing the stage in works by Mats Ek, along with solos for Baryshnikov by Benjamin Millepied and Alexei Ratmansky. Deborah Friedes Galili wrote a wonderful overview of the press conference, where Baryshnikov answered questions and addressed issues ranging from politics, to his defection from the USSR, to his opinion about dance on ...
International Partner Highlights: Eurokaz Festival in Zagreb, Croatia
June 8, 2010 · Posted by Dance Theater Workshop ·
The international Festival of New Theater Eurokaz, established in 1987, is the premier theater festival in South-East Europe presenting numerous artists and companies from all over the world. It takes place in Zagreb every June, with a program that places emphasis on the impulses that change our habits of perception and pushes innovative procedures of developments in theater forward. Eurokaz encompasses dance, theater, live art and other related art forms throughout their festival. Not only does the festival showcase independent Croatian companies, Eurokaz also became a producer and co-producer with local and international artists’ projects.
In 2006, ...
YelleB Dance Ensemble Presents Pericardium
May 26, 2010 · Posted by Dancing Perfectly Free ·
This weekend at Joyce SoHo, YelleB Dance Ensemble presents the premiere of Pericardium, a multicultural, multidisciplinary work that reveals human stories of physical and emotional walls.
Since 2006, NYC-based choreographer Ella Ben-Aharon has engaged in an artistic collaboration with Israeli video artist Adi Shniderman and German architect Matthias Neumann, continually exploring the use of portable walls as means of reconfiguring space while finding the delicacy of influences between body, virtual, and physical spaces. In Israel, Edo Ceder has started creating a video dance with British filmmaker Dan Farberoff to be filmed at the Separation Wall (also called the Israeli West Bank ...
