“We have nothing personal against [Mauro] Bigonzetti, but we believe that it would be suitable to appoint a person who has more classical background.” These foreboding words are part of a statement given to a reporter for Italian newspaper La Republicca by La Scala dancers, back in January when it was announced that Mauro Bigonzetti would […]
September has been a trying month for the dancers of Staatsballett Berlin, Germany’s largest ballet company. Last week, they learned that current artistic director Nacho Duato will be departing from the company at the close of the 2018–19 season, and his successors will be Sasha Waltz and Johannes Öhman, as co-artistic directors. This news, especially […]
Ballet Hispanico in Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s Sombrerisimo. Photo by Paula Lobo, Courtesy Ballet Hispanico. Anchored in the old, hungry for the new, contemporary ballet is a style that remains ambiguous. It allows the body to careen off balance and the stage relationships to shift. It’s less bent on creating masterworks, and more curious […]
Each month we will be asking key people in the dance field a question that shapes—or plagues—our time. First up: Does gender dictate too much in current choreography? The responses, as you can see, range from moderate to extreme. Jonathan Fredrickson Dancer/choreographer with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago There once was a wall in dance, dictating […]
The Mariinsky in Nijinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps. Photo by Natasha Razina, Courtesy Mariinsky. One Hundred Years Later May 29 marks the centennial of Nijinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps. Dance artists pay tribute to the original provocateur around the world (probably without the riots, but one never knows): Akram Khan Company in […]
At the Finnish Line Both local and international companies make their debuts at the 42nd annual Kuopio Dance Festival in Finland. Performers range from the Korean Byuk-Pah Dance Research Society to the Belgian Compagnie Thor, from Finnish contemporary folk dance troupe Rimpparemmi to the American companies Ailey II and Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet. The weeklong […]
Next Wave Festival at BAM, Boston Ballet, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui Next Wave Festival Brooklyn Academy of Music, NYC • September 29–November 10, 2010 • Reviewed by Gus Solomons jr The audience at BAM’s Next Wave Festival welcomed Pina Bausch’s Vollmond (Full Moon) like a tribute to the late choreographer, whose Tanztheater Wuppertal […]
In the 1970s when I was performing with the Trisha Brown Company in Europe, people told me how much they envied the American spirit of experimentation. They said that European dance artists were so laden with tradition that they couldn’t budge into new territory. It took years to shed their inhibitions, and now adventurous dance […]
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