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08/12/10 - sfgate.com
Finding right rhythm for 'The Typewriter'
Fans of Mark Morris' green-tinged romp "Sandpaper Ballet" were relieved when the light rain skedaddled for good Sunday afternoon at Stern Grove and allowed the San Francisco Ballet to take the stage to Leroy Anderson's giddy music. The ballet has been a...
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08/12/10 - sfgate.com
Finding right rhythm for 'The Typewriter'
Fans of Mark Morris' green-tinged romp "Sandpaper Ballet" were relieved when the light rain skedaddled for good Sunday afternoon at Stern Grove and allowed the San Francisco Ballet to take the stage to Leroy Anderson's giddy music. The ballet has been a...
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08/11/10 - artsjournal.com
'YouTube Is Awash in Pirouettes! Is Virtuosity the New Porn?'
"Google your favorite ballet stars, and you'll find assorted bravura passages that show off his leaps, his spins, her balances on the tip of her tiny, heavily shellacked toe, their amazing flexibility. … Subtleties don't play well on YouTube, so the abundant dance clips have been promoting a kind of connoisseurship of virtuosity."... Source
08/11/10 - artsjournal.com
'YouTube Is Awash in Pirouettes! Is Virtuosity the New Porn?'
"Google your favorite ballet stars, and you'll find assorted bravura passages that show off his leaps, his spins, her balances on the tip of her tiny, heavily shellacked toe, their amazing flexibility.… Subtleties don't play well on YouTube, so the abundant dance clips have been promoting a kind of connoisseurship of virtuosity."... Source
08/11/10 - artsjournal.com
The Summer-in-the-City Site-Specific Dance Piece
"Now expanded from 12 minutes to 30, [Noémie Lafrance's] Melt features seven dancers who will dissolve - this is an occasion in which the hotter it is, the better - at the salt pile under the Manhattan Bridge."... Source
08/11/10 - artsjournal.com
The Summer-in-the-City Site-Specific Dance Piece
"Now expanded from 12 minutes to 30, [Nomie Lafrance's] Melt features seven dancers who will dissolve - this is an occasion in which the hotter it is, the better - at the salt pile under the Manhattan Bridge."... Source
08/11/10 - sfgate.com
Finding right rhythm for 'The Typewriter'
Fans of Mark Morris' green-tinged romp "Sandpaper Ballet" were relieved when the light rain skedaddled for good Sunday afternoon at Stern Grove and allowed the San Francisco Ballet to take the stage to Leroy Anderson's giddy music. The ballet has been a...
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08/10/10 - artsjournal.com
New York's Modern Dance Infrastructure Crumbles
"[Choroegrapher Ellis] Wood's seven-year funding grant ran out after five. Then the funders of her mid-career grant called and informed her that it no longer existed. … Recently, she decided to make her work more 'accessible' and focus on a (cheaper-to-produce) solo project. Two weeks ago, she got news that her rehearsal space, Dance Forum in Union Square, is shutting down."... Source
08/10/10 - artsjournal.com
New York's Modern Dance Infrastructure Crumbles
"[Choroegrapher Ellis] Wood's seven-year funding grant ran out after five. Then the funders of her mid-career grant called and informed her that it no longer existed.… Recently, she decided to make her work more 'accessible' and focus on a (cheaper-to-produce) solo project. Two weeks ago, she got news that her rehearsal space, Dance Forum in Union Square, is shutting down."... Source
08/10/10 - artsjournal.com
Pina Bausch's Dancers, Keeping Her Work Alive
"The detail and complexity of Bausch's work were such that, whenever a production was revived, it required months of preparation from her. Yet Robert Sturm, who had for 10 years worked alongside Bausch as assistant director, felt they had to find a way of keeping the company going. 'Pina fought hard to bring this kind of work to Wuppertal - I know she didn't want it to disappear'."... Source
08/10/10 - artsjournal.com
Pina Bausch's Dancers, Keeping Her Work Alive
"The detail and complexity of Bausch's work were such that, whenever a production was revived, it required months of preparation from her. Yet Robert Sturm, who had for 10 years worked alongside Bausch as assistant director, felt they had to find a way of keeping the company going. 'Pina fought hard to bring this kind of work to Wuppertal - I know she didn't want it to disappear'."... Source
08/10/10 - nytimes.com
Dance Review: Tango Stars Natalia Hills and Gabriel Missé in Vail
There is no more spellbinding dance partnership today than that of the tango stars Natalia Hills and Gabriel Missé.
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08/10/10 - nytimes.com
Dance Review: Tango Stars Natalia Hills and Gabriel Missé in Vail
There is no more spellbinding dance partnership today than that of the tango stars Natalia Hills and Gabriel Missé.
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08/10/10 - nytimes.com
Dance Review: Gallim Dance and Camille A. Brown at Joyce Theater
Camille A. Brown and Andrea Miller show off their varied but professional choreography at the Joyce Theater.
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08/10/10 - nytimes.com
Dance Review: Gallim Dance and Camille A. Brown at Joyce Theater
Camille A. Brown and Andrea Miller show off their varied but professional choreography at the Joyce Theater.
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08/10/10 - dancersgroup.org
New Stages for Dance Grant
Dancers' Group is proud to announce the launch of a new granting program helping Bay Area dance companies and artists pay for renting one of four theaters in San Francisco. Source
08/10/10 - dancersgroup.org
New Stages for Dance Grant
Dancers' Group is proud to announce the launch of a new granting program helping Bay Area dance companies and artists pay for renting one of four theaters in San Francisco. Source
08/10/10 - artsjournal.com
Must the Great Modern Dance Works Die With Their Creators?
"Two giants of dance died last year: Pina Bausch and Merce Cunningham. Right now audiences aren't being deprived of seeing why their names are written permanently in lights in dance history … but after 2011 they may be. Cunningham's company will close, while Bausch's will be in its last of an uncertain three-year grace period."... Source
08/10/10 - artsjournal.com
Must the Great Modern Dance Works Die With Their Creators?
"Two giants of dance died last year: Pina Bausch and Merce Cunningham. Right now audiences aren't being deprived of seeing why their names are written permanently in lights in dance history… but after 2011 they may be. Cunningham's company will close, while Bausch's will be in its last of an uncertain three-year grace period."... Source
08/09/10 - artsjournal.com
Changing Direction at Pittsburgh's Dance Alloy Theater
"[Former director] Beth [Corning] has a very specific genre, dance theater, and is very devoted to that genre. [New leader Greer Reed-Jones's] concept is much broader dance that does include dance theater but also movement and physicality, and so encompasses a lot more works than we might have been able to do under Beth's guidance."... Source