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  • Oakland Ballet Makes Steps Toward Recovery
  • "The prognosis for the Oakland Ballet Company looked grim in April when founding Artistic Director Ronn Guidi suddenly resigned (for the second time in a decade)." But this weekend, "the company gave its first concert since Guidi's retirement. The short, [...]
  • Maky | Categories: Dance | 01:13:48 21-Oct-2009 | add comment
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  • The Sacrifices PA Ballet Is, And Isn't, Willing To Make
  • To survive in a tight economy, Pennsylvania Ballet "has chosen pay freezes and furloughs. The non-artistic staff has shrunk by five from its 22 positions through attrition, and those jobs are going unfilled." But tomorrow night the ballet opens its [...]
  • Maky | Categories: Dance | 09:39:25 20-Oct-2009 | add comment
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  • Can Christopher Wheeldon's Dance Company Survive?
  • "As Morphoses prepares to open its third season at City Center on Thursday, Mr. Wheeldon is facing a crucial moment in which the viability of his venture seems highly uncertain. His contracts with the Vail International Dance Festival and City [...]
  • Maky | Categories: Dance | 03:02:30 25-Oct-2009 | add comment
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  • To Escape Corporate Image, Boston Ballet Rebrands
  • The company's brand strategist explains: "I think the ballet really needed to put a stake in the ground and say, 'This is happening here, you need to take note.' Because no one else would do that for them. One of [...]
  • Maky | Categories: Dance | 10:36:23 22-Oct-2009 | add comment
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  • 'Why Must The Stage Always Be Horizontal And The Dancer Vertical?'
  • "Perhaps the most salient characteristic of [Deborah] Colker's work since she founded the company that bears her name 15 years ago has been her desire to toy with perceptions of dimension, direction and distance. An early piece, Rota, featured dancers [...]
  • Maky | Categories: Dance | 01:14:19 22-Oct-2009 | add comment
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  • Rudy Perez, L.A.'s 'Postmodern Dance Guru,' At 80
  • "That he continues choreographing is something of a minor miracle. Not only is the arts economy dire, but Perez also has been visually impaired for the last decade. Moving slowly and burdened with hazy vision at best, Perez says the [...]
  • Maky | Categories: Dance | 01:00:09 22-Oct-2009 | add comment
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  • How Pilobolus Audiences Are Different
  • "The din at a Pilobolus performance is like that of no other dance crowd. If you were blindfolded, you'd have every reason to assume that you were attending a small-scale circus, … and the biggest affront wouldn't be boos but the [...]
  • Maky | Categories: Dance | 12:55:22 28-Oct-2009 | add comment
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  • Reacting To Rift, Joyce Stagehands Join IATSE
  • Joyce Theater stagehands voted yesterday to join the "powerful union" that "struck Broadway in 2007 and negotiated a contract at Carnegie Hall that resulted in a props supervisor earning $530,044 last year." Now Joyce executive director Linda Shelton says she's [...]
  • Maky | Categories: Dance | 08:02:54 27-Oct-2009 | add comment
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  • Urban Dance: If You Teach It, They Will Come
  • Undergrads who pursue the University of East London's urban dance degree -- an anomaly in the UK -- are taught "not just hip-hop styles like krumping, popping and locking, but also the fundamentals of African dance, capoeira and kathak." Purists [...]
  • Maky | Categories: Dance | 10:54:52 26-Oct-2009 | add comment
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  • These Dance Moves Prohibited (Warning: Explicit Language)
  • High school administrators who "fretted over how to deal with freaking, grinding and other provocative dances" are combating "explicit teen dancing with an equal dose of explicitness" in the contracts they now require students and parents to sign "before a [...]
  • Maky | Categories: Dance | 08:43:13 26-Oct-2009 | add comment
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  • Worldwide "Thriller" Dance Record
  • "It's estimated about 20,000 people in more than 200 locations in 37 countries around the world participated in the dance which occurred Saturday night or Sunday morning depending on where you were."...
  • Maky | Categories: Dance | 11:14:55 25-Oct-2009 | add comment
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  • Five Hours, Three Stages And One Enormous Space: In Memory Of Merce
  • "There was inevitably a lot of great dance and dancing. But also, inevitably, this was not exactly a dance occasion. … Nor, for that matter was it about Merce (yes, everyone called him and calls him Merce). What distinguished Cunningham from [...]
  • Maky | Categories: Dance | 01:09:12 30-Oct-2009 | add comment
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  • Salsa In The Land Of The Rising Sun
  • "Japan's standing as a 'hub' for salsa in Asia rises every day. International talent flock to the capital; specialist publications cover the dance form as a swelling number of aspiring dancers scour the city for classes."...
  • Maky | Categories: Dance | 12:56:06 30-Oct-2009 | add comment
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  • Dancing About Transportation At The Staten Island Ferry Terminal
  • "Ferry terminals are surprisingly dreamy spaces. This is especially true on wet, foggy days, when the differences between land, sea and air seem negligible, the boundaries permeable. … All sorts of boundaries seemed uncertain [Tuesday] afternoon at the Whitehall Ferry Terminal [...]
  • Maky | Categories: Dance | 12:50:02 29-Oct-2009 | add comment
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  • Why Are Women Choreographers Lower-Profile Than Men?
  • "Has dance simply caved into the wider, sexist culture, or are there specific issues affecting the profession right now? And is this apparent marginalisation something women have chosen - or has it been foisted on them?"...
  • Maky | Categories: Dance | 10:28:27 28-Oct-2009 | add comment
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