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A Ballet, a Book: Fascinating Oskar Schlemmer By Jeannette Andersen

“Today Oskar Schlemmer’s The Triadic Ballet (Das Triadische Ballett) is considered an avant-garde masterpiece and a milestone in the dance and art world from the beginning of the 20th century. To celebrate the work’s 100th birthday, the Bayerisches Junior Ballett München concluded their 2022-2023 season with sold-out performances of the ballet, and in June, a book by Frank-Manuel Peter, Oskar Schlemmer und der Tanz (Oskar Schlemmer and the Dance) came out (published by Wienand in German only).

Peter is director of Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln (German Dance Archive Cologne) and his 640-page book is based to a large extent on never-before-published material from this archive: letters, photos, drawings, excerpts from memoirs, and reviews almost all pertaining to The Triadic Ballet and its arduous journey from idea, to stage, to fame…”



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By Michael Crabb. Fall for Dance North Festival.

Fall for Dance North: Thankful for a little bit of bliss - Dance International Magazine ovations were fully merited…My Mother's Son, for the first time live on a professional stage…dancer-brothers Mthuthuzeli & Siphesihle November

Reviews - The Royal Winnipeg Ballet: A mature, haute couture Snow White By Holly Harris

“Soloist Jaimi Deleau stole the limelight every time she burst onstage as the narcissistic, vainglorious Queen, deeply resentful of her stepdaughter after her gilded mirror magically reflects Snow White as “the fairest of them all.” Decked out in S&M-flavoured stiletto boots, slinky black gloves, and bodysuit, Deleau transformed from her past portrayals of pristine fairy godmothers into a dominatrix-styled wildcat, becoming ostensibly the ballet’s central character. The Queen’s final, flailing solo, as she dances to her death during the wedding scene, will not soon be forgotten. Nor will her savage pas de deux with Snow White as she shoves the apple down her stepdaughter’s throat…”

The Royal Winnipeg Ballet: A mature, haute couture Snow White - Dance International Magazine The Royal Winnipeg Ballet took a deep dark dive into a classic Brothers Grimm fairytale with the Canadian debut of Angelin Preljocaj’s inky black Snow White.

Life Moves: Mohiniattam, a cultural seduction By Susheela Menon

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Life Moves: Mohiniattam, a cultural seduction - Dance International Magazine By Susheela Menon The dancer moves to the beat of the idakka, a highly revered percussion instrument of Kerala, at a 2000-year-old temple in South India. She moves from one sanctum to the other till reaching the shrine of Kali, the most powerful goddess in the Hindu pantheon. A crowd […]

Rocío Molina: A flamenco goddess of style and wit By Kaija Pepper

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Rocío Molina: A flamenco goddess of style and wit - Dance International Magazine Molina gave us an evening filled with theatrical charm: with her four musicians (Óscar Lago, Kiko Peña, José Manuel Ramos “Oruco” and Pablo Martín Jones) she entertained superbly, challenged the audience

City Reviews - Copenhagen: The view from summer By Anne-Marie Elmby

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An Evolving Story: From Singapore Dance Theatre to Singapore Ballet By Malcolm Tay

“Prior to the inception of Singapore Dance Theatre, Singaporeans keen on pursuing ballet professionally had to go abroad for training and jobs (among them were Patricia Hon, who studied with Rosella Hightower in France and performed in Europe, and Kee Juan Han, an Australian Ballet School graduate who became a soloist at Boston Ballet). The troupe’s inaugural co-directors wanted not only to present world-class dance, but also to allow Singaporean dancers to have careers at home.”

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An Evolving Story: From Singapore Dance Theatre to Singapore Ballet - Dance International Magazine By Malcolm Tay Minutes before opening night of a special all-Choo-San Goh program on December 10, 2021, Singapore Dance Theatre made a major announcement: it would now be known as Singapore Ballet. To veteran spectators familiar with the company’s development, this was likely a welcome move that h...

Join us as we celebrate the life and career of Gerald Arpino written by Steve Sucato

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Gerald Arpino: His time to be celebrated - Dance International Magazine By Steve Sucato The Joffrey Ballet, co-founded in 1956 by Robert Joffrey and Gerald Arpino, is proudly described on the company website as “America’s Company of Firsts.” It was the first dance company to appear on American television, the first to grace the cover of Time magazine, the first to...

Today’s Pacific Northwest Ballet: A graceful changing of the guard By Marcie Sillman

“Pacific Northwest Ballet’s new season, opening later this month, will be the first in more than two decades without longtime principal Lesley Rausch. The ballerina was acclaimed for nuanced performances in everything from Swan Lake to Ulysses Dove’s very contemporary Red Angels.

She will be missed, but Rausch’s retirement is an inflection point for the Seattle-based company, a changing of the guard that’s helping to define the new face of American ballet. As it begins its 51st season, Pacific Northwest Ballet’s dancers are more ethnically diverse than at any point in company history. And they’re performing an ever-expanding repertoire of new works. The mandate for change comes from the top, but energetic young dancers are helping push those changes forward.”

Pacific Northwest Ballet's Lesley Rausch's final bow, June 12, 2023 | Photo: Lia Chiarelli

Pacific Northwest Ballet, with Destiny Wimpye far left, in George Balanchine's Nutcracker | Photo: Angela Sterling

Pacific Northwest Ballet Artistic Director Peter Boal | Photo: Lindsay Thomas

Pacific Northwest Ballet's Destiny Wimpye in Kiyon Ross' ...throes of increasing wonder | Photo: Angela Sterling

Today’s Pacific Northwest Ballet: A graceful changing of the guard By Marcie Sillman

“Pacific Northwest Ballet’s new season, opening later this month, will be the first in more than two decades without longtime principal Lesley Rausch. The ballerina was acclaimed for nuanced performances in everything from Swan Lake to Ulysses Dove’s very contemporary Red Angels..."

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Today’s Pacific Northwest Ballet: A graceful changing of the guard - Dance International Magazine By Marcie Sillman Pacific Northwest Ballet’s new season, opening later this month, will be the first in more than two decades without longtime principal Lesley Rausch. The ballerina was acclaimed for nuanced performances in everything from Swan Lake to Ulysses Dove’s very contemporary Red Angels...

Take a journey through the life and career of one Canada’s boldest, most innovative, and prolific choreographers: Danny Grossman by Micheal Crabb!

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Danny Grossman: A dancer for life, remembered - Dance International Magazine By Michael Crabb Danny Grossman, once hailed as among Canada’s boldest, most innovative, and prolific choreographers, died of heart failure in Toronto on July 29 at the age of 80. During his long career Grossman created a total of 67 dances, mostly for his own Danny Grossman Dance Company, founded...

In the Heart of a Warrior: Exit12 brings dance to veterans By Kathryn Boland.

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In the Heart of a Warrior: Exit12 brings dance to veterans - Dance International Magazine Elizabeth Freeman will joke with her combat veteran clients that “nothing strikes fear in the heart of a warrior like the word ‘dance’.” Yet the work of New York’s Exit12 Dance Company

by Kaija Pepper - Shaping Dance Canons: The critic effect; a recent publication by the Florida Press

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Shaping Dance Canons: The critic effect - Dance International Magazine Dance criticism can be many things: a celebration, a documentation, an examination, an evaluation, boring, fun to read, biased, generous, too much like PR, with too much description, with too little description

What is the value of art? Who is it for? How can the arts be funded properly, and should it be when poverty is rampant? These urgent questions frame the complicated needs of art-making in the Philippines. The Alaya Conference, which took place May 24-26 in Tagaytay, proved to be a rare and utopic pocket of time and space for artists and scholars to practice and discuss their work with resources and community supporting them, their basic needs met. Read this insightful blog by Tin Gamboa on how humanistic values can inform art-making in our country. 🎨

Inside Ed: Bringing humanistic values to art-making - Dance International Magazine ...shared through meditation, movement, storytelling, and improvisation at a workshop led by myself and fellow performer and educator Heidi Salih Emelo.

Six Good Books: Choreographers’ inspirational recommendations ​​By Jenn Edwards

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“Six choreographers share some of their favourite books, ranging from novel to children’s story to essays. Through their vastly different recommendations, some common themes emerged, illustrating these artists’ shared interests in reconnecting with their inner child, living the values of their heroes, and reflecting on why we make art, and why it matters.”

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Sydney Celebrations and an Australian Classic Novel Onstage in Brisbane - Dance International Magazine Brett Chynoweth and Ako Kondo were possibly the season’s most valuable players…wit, sexiness, speed, razor-sharp attack, and an over-arching sense of ease and fun.

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Dancing on the Edge at 35: Stories of our lives - Dance International Magazine By Kaija Pepper For 35 years, over 10 days each July, Vancouver — a port city on the edge of the Pacific Ocean — has been the loyal home to Canada’s longest-running professional dance festival, Dancing on the Edge. This edition included only one international company and most mixed bills […]

Power in an Age of Healing: The Queen of Carthage in Vancouver By Rachel Silver Maddock

The Queen of Carthage opens the Early Music Vancouver Festival on July 27.

“The Queen of Carthage brings together an opera singer (mezzo-soprano Cecilia Duarte), two dancers (Gold and Juolin Lee), and a live eight-piece orchestra in a stage production that re-interprets the emotional journey of Dido in a poetic, non-narrative way. Baroque and contemporary music will anchor the performance but dance is central to engaging the audience in the story — duets and solos that express images or faces of the queen throughout her life.”

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Power in an Age of Healing: The Queen of Carthage in Vancouver - Dance International Magazine By Rachel Silver Maddock A rare female leader in classical mythology, Dido has lived in the contemporary imagination through countless re-interpretations. In many of these, stemming from Virgil’s Aeneid, Dido is presented as a tragic figure who founds the great city of Carthage but later commits s...

Inside Ed: Conversations on Performance By Kris Lori

Montreal’s Festival TransAmériques, which brings in contemporary dance and theatre from around the world, also offers annual seminars on critical dialogue. This summer I attended the English version of the seminar, Conversations on Performance, as an arts writer and marketer. (The seminar is also held in French.)
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Inside Ed: Conversations on Performance - Dance International Magazine Over nine days we conversed with nine guest speakers; attended eight performances, each with their own Remember and Respond session; experienced three workshops; and enjoyed

Tokyo: A rewarding ballet season, and a short trip to see Kidd Pivot. A by By Naomi Mori of and in April to June.

Tokyo: A rewarding ballet season and a short trip to see Kidd Pivot - Dance International Magazine By Naomi Mori The National Ballet of Japan’s commission to British choreographer Will Tuckett, a one-act Shakespearean ballet titled The Tragedy of Macbeth, premiered in April at New National Theatre. The score, by the late Scottish composer Geraldine Mucha, Macbeth, had been created as ballet mus...

CITY REPORTS! Paris: Ballet's renaissance, and a striking cross-generational duet By Marisa Hayes

“Balletomanes often complain that Paris is lacking in classical ballet performances. And while it may seem paradoxical for a city so fundamental to the history of ballet, the French capital abounds with contemporary dance. Even the Paris Opera Ballet has increasingly expanded into postmodern, contemporary, and dance theatre productions, leaving a meagre number of ballets each season. All this is expected to change under the direction of José Martinez, former Paris Opera étoile, who took the company’s reins in December.”

Paris: Ballet's renaissance and a striking cross-generational duet - Dance International Magazine By Marisa Hayes Balletomanes often complain that Paris is lacking in classical ballet performances. And while it may seem paradoxical for a city so fundamental to the history of ballet, the French capital abounds with contemporary dance. Even the Paris Opera Ballet has increasingly expanded into pos...

Behind the Scenes: At the Bayerisches Opera House Workshops
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Behind the Scenes: At the Bayerisches Opera House Workshops - Dance International Magazine By Jeannette Andersen Munich’s Bayerisches Staatsballett recently offered a rare glimpse into some of the more practical details around putting a ballet on stage in a big opera house. Instead of their annual joint press conference with the opera at the theatre itself, they hosted a visit at the se...

Crowd-Pleasing BalletX: Are bonbons enough? By Robin J. Miller

"Philadelphia’s BalletX landed with a bang at the Royal Theatre in Victoria, BC, on November 18, setting a standard for Dance Victoria’s 26th season of dance presentations that will be hard to top. Or maybe not. It depends on your appetite for sugar..."

Crowd-Pleasing BalletX: Are bonbons enough? - Dance International Magazine Philadelphia’s BalletX landed with a bang at the Royal Theatre in Victoria, BC, setting a standard for Dance Victoria’s 26th season of dance presentations that will be hard to top

City Reports: Toronto's welcome rush of live theatre By Michael Crabb

“The Toronto dance scene has sprung back to a close approximation of pre-pandemic normality with a welcome stampede of live performances by local and visiting artists. Dancer-choreographer Nova Bhattacharya was first out of the gate in September with the premiere of Svāhā!, a joyful work for an all-female 22-dancer cast. The title comes from the Sanskrit word for oblation, or offering, and the work itself can be seen as a ritual in which the performers, representing a diverse plethora of styles, coalesce in a glorious celebration of life and womanhood..."

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María F*x at 100 and counting: The “can-do” attitude By Anastasia Georgouli

“Although the Argentinian dancer, choreographer, and dance therapist stopped teaching a few years ago, movement is still the air she breathes. In a film on YouTube, you can see her, at age 99, sitting in a chair but still dancing, in synch with the environment and the music by Astor Piazolla…”

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Vancouver: A rare Ballet BC duet, an hour with Lecavalier and other highlights By Kaija Pepper

"Ballet BC’s November home season opener at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre was a lively triple bill with, at its centre, a rare duet, a welcome opportunity to see company dancers in action for a more sustained view. Silent Tides, created by artistic director Medhi Walerski for Nederlands Dans Theater in 2020, featured an opening night cast of Sarah Pippin and Rae Srivastava, both in white pants and socks, both bare-breasted, which, for the woman, added a certain vulnerability. Yet she blazed through the slow, measured moves, at times reminiscent of a tai chi flow but unfolding much more luxuriously..."

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City Reports 2020 – 2022: Montreal's fall flurry By Victor Swoboda

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Join the Richmond Academy of Dance for their 23rd annual "Dance Into Christmas" performance on Friday, December 2nd at Massey Theatre. Featuring excerpts from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker with special Guest Artists Anna Ishii and Célestin Boutin from Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Dramatic Soprano Ms. Sheila Christie, and jazz quartet, "Janny & The Jets with Teresa Marie". Specially choreographed works will also be performed by the Academy's dancers and vocalists, sure to be a magical tradition for the entire family!

Join the Richmond Academy of Dance for festive, fun, and beautiful works! This is one show you will not want to miss.

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Stuttgart's Agnes Su: Unleashing the ballerina within

For Agnes Su, the 26-year-old Stuttgart Ballet principal, old hesitancies are finally gone. The sure knowledge she belongs where she stands has unleashed a remarkable stage presence that is captivating audiences and critics alike.

“I didn’t really think of myself as a principal dancer until now,” Su says, sitting at trendy Plenum, a restaurant in Schlossgarten park where dance fans hang out after performances at the adjacent Stuttgart Opera House. “I never had a lead role, then suddenly there were four of them last season. It was a real wake-up for me.”

A principal dancer since November 2021, Su took full advantage of her new chances, digging deep inside to find the kind of diversity needed for the range of roles. From the lyric warmth of Aurora’s awakening in The Sleeping Beauty, to the dark-hearted chill of Mary Vetsera in MacMillan’s passionate Mayerling, Su created stage contrasts that revealed a blossoming dance actress.

There was Manon, as well, in Lady of the Camellias, and Katharina in The Taming of the Shrew. The former showed an ability to be in touch with vulnerability and sadness. The latter offered a chance to tap into her nascent sense of humour.

“I can’t believe I can do all this,” she grins.

Stuttgart's Agnes Su: Unleashing the ballerina within - Dance International Magazine “I didn’t really think of myself as a principal dancer until now,” Su says, sitting at trendy Plenum, a restaurant in Schlossgarten park where dance fans hang out

Join the Richmond Academy of Dance for their 23rd annual “Dance Into Christmas’ performance on Friday, December 2nd at Massey Theatre. This concert is created for everyone's pleasure and will put you into a holiday spirit like no other.

Featuring excerpts from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker with special Guest Artists from Les Grands Ballets Canadiens who will perform the Nutcracker Pas de Deux and Dramatic Soprano, Sheila Christie who will be performing Opera classics. In addition, there will be specially choreographed works performed by the Academy’s dancers and vocalists sure to be a magical tradition for the entire family! This is one show you will not want to miss.

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1 Dutch National Ballet presented Kurt Jooss’ iconic 1932 anti-war ballet, The Green Table, because, said director Ted Brandsen, it is “very relevant to the times we’re living through … which are marked by the dreadful war still raging in Ukraine.”

“Instead of opening its season with the planned mixed bill Celebrate!, Dutch National Ballet made a timely change in programming with the more somber triple bill, Shadows, featuring Kurt Jooss’ iconic 1932 anti-war ballet, The Green Table. Company director Ted Brandsen explained in a program note that they did so because Jooss’ ballet is “very relevant to the times we’re living through … which are marked by the dreadful war still raging in Ukraine.” The day before Shadows opened on September 13 in Amsterdam, Oleksandr Shapoval, who had retired from the ballet at the National Opera of Ukraine in 2021, was killed on the battlefield defending his country, underscoring The Green Table’s relevance…

Amongst them wanders the ever-present Death (Pascal Johnson), half skeleton, half warrior. His movements, derived from Ausdruckstanz (German Expressionistic dance), are expressive, strong, and grounded. You hear his stamping feet above the score for two pianos, by F.A. Cohen, Jooss’ long-time collaborator. The earthbound movements of Death create a strong contrast to the more balletic style of the living. The Pr******te, in pointe shoes, engages with the soldiers with a lightness that lends her a vapour-like appearance, as if almost not being there is the only way she can endure her visible revulsion. With elongated, panther-like movements, the Profiteer steals like a thief upon his prey…”

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United Ukrainian Ballet: Welcomed by the Netherlands and the world - Dance International Magazine UUB company manager Taras Onishchenko knew Knyazkov from previous artistic collaborations and invited him to The Hague.

Cape Town’s Romeo and Juliet: Siphe November returns, one night only. By Maggie Foyer

Cape Town’s Romeo and Juliet: Siphe November returns, one night only - Dance International Magazine November and his Juliet, Chanté Daniels, both young and of slight stature, are new to the roles and look just like the teenagers of Shakespeare’s play.

United Ukrainian Ballet: Welcomed by the and the world By Victor Swoboda

“Displaced by war, 60 Ukrainian dancers, artists, and technicians have hastily joined a new company called United Ukrainian Ballet based in the Netherlands…

UUB makes a much-anticipated appearance at London’s Coliseum, September 13-17, in a new version of Giselle by Alexei Ratmansky, the eminent Russian-Ukrainian choreographer. All proceeds go to two non-profit foundations created in the Netherlands “to protect, support and spread Ukrainian culture.”’

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Nureyev Gala: Anticipating an occasion to remember By Gerard Davis

Nureyev: Legend and Legacy; is debuting September 5, at London’s Theatre Royal Drury Lane, the same theatre where Nureyev made his London debut in 1961. (The gala will be filmed, available at www.marquee.tv on a pay-per-view basis, Sept. 16–26.)

Inside Ed: Supporting future By Imogen Aujla

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Inside Ed: Supporting future freelancers - Dance International Magazine Gemma Whitelam, head of jazz at Dancebox College…“So, understanding etiquette, and realizing that the way you present yourself at auditions or in jobs counts, are very important.”

Dancing the Past: The relevance of Kartikeya, Sacre du printemps and Ecstasy of Rita Joe By Rebecca Karpus

Dancing the Past: The relevance of Kartikeya, Sacre du printemps and Ecstasy of Rita Joe - Dance International Magazine Historical dance works are not nearly as accessible…Protima Chatterjee explores these questions… Kirsten Wicklund can attest to the value of having both in-person stagers and video footage

Venice and Bolzano: Festival season, summer 2022 By Silvia Poletti

“Bolzano Danza and Venice Biennale Danza — the two most important events of the Italian summer…”

Venice and Bolzano: Festival season, summer 2022 - Dance International Magazine In Venice, Gauthier Dance premiered its major production, The Seven Sins, with choreography by seven of the most relevant choreographers of our time

Stuttgart’s Mayerling: A MacMillan classic, refreshed and relevant By Gary Smith

“With his 1978 Mayerling, English choreographer Kenneth MacMillan went to some very dark places to tell a historic story of love, lust, and troubled politics, played out against a fever-pitched passion that threatened a kingdom...”

Stuttgart’s Mayerling: A MacMillan classic, refreshed and relevant - Dance International Magazine When Mayerling was first produced at the Royal Ballet in London, it shocked audiences…A new production authorized by Lady MacMillan and championed by Tamas Detrich was intriguing

City Reports: New York’s delightful deluge of and By Robert Greskovic

New York’s delightful deluge of ballet and modern dance - Dance International Magazine New York City Ballet’s slightly COVID-delayed spring season in late April began with a large-scale revival: The Goldberg Variations, Jerome Robbins’ 1971 90-minute showcase of classical dancing.

City Reports - Vancouver: Off and on the Edge By Kaija Pepper

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Vancouver: Off and on the Edge - Dance International Magazine By Kaija Pepper Yvonne Chartrand has been steadfastly bringing her welcoming vision to the stage through her small Vancouver company V’ni Dansi since 2000. The name translates as “Come and Dance” in Mitchif (the language spoken by the Métis) and this invitation to share is felt throughout her...