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09/01/10 - nytimes.com
The Week Ahead: Sept. 5 — Sept. 11
A listing of cultural events this week.
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09/01/10 - nytimes.com
The Week Ahead: Sept. 5 — Sept. 11
A listing of cultural events this week.
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09/01/10 - artsjournal.com
5000 With Something To Prove About Morris Dancing
"Combining art, music and a lot of jangly-belled leaping, the event aims to prove that morris dancing is not only alive and kicking but is a potent tradition that should be celebrated, not sniggered at."... Source
08/31/10 - artsjournal.com
Alastair Macaulay: "I Believe That Criticism Begins Not in Knowledge But in Ignorance"
"I spent all my early years feeling - rightly - that I didn't know enough and that I didn't have enough experience. I realize now that the sense of not knowing enough is a good way to feel. " A lengthy Q&A with the chief dance critic of The New York Times.... Source
08/31/10 - artsjournal.com
Tampa Gets New Ballet Company With New Business Model
"Modeled after Miami's New World Symphony," the troupe, named Next Generation Ballet, will have "a three-tier demographic: Guest artists that will include principal dancers from companies around the world; apprentice dancers who have completed the bulk of their training but are looking for additional mentoring and stage experience; and … advanced students."... Source
08/31/10 - latimes.com
Obamas to honor dancer Judith Jamison at White House celebration
The first couple will host a celebration of dance on Sept. 7.
The first couple will host a celebration of dance on Sept. 7.
08/31/10 - latimes.com
Obamas to honor dancer Judith Jamison at White House celebration
The first couple will host a celebration of dance on Sept. 7.
The first couple will host a celebration of dance on Sept. 7.
08/31/10 - sfgate.com
Graham Lustig selected to guide Oakland Ballet
Lustig to lead Oakland Ballet After a yearlong search, the 45-year-old Oakland Ballet has announced that Graham Lustig is the company's new artistic director. The British-born Lustig previously directed New Jersey's American Repertory Ballet but stepped down...
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08/31/10 - sfgate.com
Graham Lustig selected to guide Oakland Ballet
Lustig to lead Oakland Ballet After a yearlong search, the 45-year-old Oakland Ballet has announced that Graham Lustig is the company's new artistic director. The British-born Lustig previously directed New Jersey's American Repertory Ballet but stepped down...
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08/30/10 - artsjournal.com
Colorado Ballet Selects Non-Dance Exec as New CEO
"In the midst of a comprehensive restructuring that could determine the company's very survival, the Colorado Ballet's board of trustees wanted a new executive director with proven success at fund-raising and financial turnarounds. To that end, it tapped Marie Belew Wheatley, who brings 22 years of nonprofit experience in Denver" - at the American Humane Ass'n and the American Red Cross.... Source
08/30/10 - artsjournal.com
England's Northern Ballet Gets a New Home in the City
Come September, the Leeds-based company, which has been operating out of a suburban secondary school, will be moving into a 12million facility in the center of Leeds's cultural district. The new dance centre has seven studios, offices and a 200-seat theatre.... Source
08/30/10 - artsjournal.com
Chicago Dancing Festival - The Audience Is The Real Story
"While the performances at this festival are of the essence (and they were uniformly impressive Saturday), it is the audience that is the real story. As viewers arrived in strollers and on walkers, comprising an ideal cross-section of every age and ethnic variety (with many veterans of the three previous festivals back to see more), the whole event could not help but send a dance enthusiast's heart spinning."... Source
08/29/10 - sfgate.com
Dance season highlights
September Singing Praises: Jo Kreiter's Flyaway Productions honors the 100th anniversary of the construction of the Women's Building with this free, site-specific dance. Music by Jewlia Eisenberg. Sept. 10-12, 16-18, Women's Building, 3543 18th St., San...
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08/29/10 - sfgate.com
Dance season highlights
September Singing Praises: Jo Kreiter's Flyaway Productions honors the 100th anniversary of the construction of the Women's Building with this free, site-specific dance. Music by Jewlia Eisenberg. Sept. 10-12, 16-18, Women's Building, 3543 18th St., San...
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08/28/10 - nytimes.com
Letters: Dance: Oh, Those Russian Steps
Ms. Sulcas’s article only scratches at the surface of what phenomenal interpreters of the dance the Mikhailovsky Ballet is.
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08/28/10 - nytimes.com
Letters: Dance: Oh, Those Russian Steps
Ms. Sulcas’s article only scratches at the surface of what phenomenal interpreters of the dance the Mikhailovsky Ballet is.
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08/27/10 - artsjournal.com
(Re-)Writing the Oxford Dictionary of Dance (Everything's Changed)
Judith Mackrell: "It is only 10 years since Debra Craine and I wrote the [Dictionary]. Yet, in terms of the technology used to research it, it could almost have been a century ago."... Source
08/27/10 - artsjournal.com
Ballet Movies: All Rivalry and Despair
From The Red Shoes and La Mort du Cygne, through The Turning Point and White Nights to the nw Black Swan, the backstage stories we see onscreen are all suffering, struggle and competitive rancor.... Source