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'A Dance Lover's Paradise' In The South Of France
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:56:26 -0800
"With 28 choreographers from 10 countries presenting 16 world premieres in as many days, … 30,000 spectators are expected to attend the [Montpellier Dance F]estival, which ends July 4. And it's here that Angelin Preljocaj took to the stage for the first time in 16 years in Un Funambule ('The Tightrope Walker')."...
The Masochism Tango: Why Finland Took The Archetypal Argentine Dance To Heart
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:11:44 -0800
"It seems the melancholic music is a perfect match for the typical Finnish soul. 'It's a little bit sad, and it's beautiful,' a woman tells me at a dimly lit Helsinki restaurant that regularly hosts dances. Paradoxically, when she moves to these sad melodies, she feels happy. (She didn't want to be named, her reason being another national trait: shyness.)"...
Hey, Rugby Players! Are You Man Enough To Get Through A Ballet Class?
Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:30:57 -0800
This week the coach of South Africa's national rugby team defended an eye-gouging incident by one of his players by saying, in effect, that rugby ain't ballet, it's a violent sport. So South African Ballet Theatre invited the players to take a class with them and see how they fared opposite some real men in tights....
The Elation And Devastation Of Pina Bausch's Work
Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:56:46 -0800
Pina Bausch could "take you to a higher place that you didn't even know existed. Not all the time and not every time, but she could do it. How? One way was by demanding that her performers dig deep within their own memories and feelings; famously, Bausch said that she was not interested in how people move, but in what moves them." A clip-by-clip guide to her work....
New York International Ballet Competition: 'A Deeply Depressing Affair'
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:51:09 -0800
Alastair Macaulay: "Not that its standards of delivery were low; what was dismaying was that the competition … elicited from the dancers a great deal of what is anti-artistic, sensationalist and trite about ballet."...
A Pina Bausch Naysayer Eulogizes Her Work
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:35:11 -0800
Alastair Macaulay: "What is scarcely diminished by Ms. Bausch's death is the art of dance. There were good dance moments in her work, but they were usually of secondary interest and choreographically of no lasting import. Her big-scale dance episodes were mainly wild and vehement forms of not quite coherent expressionism. Another strange component of Ms. Bausch's dance style was bad ballet. The way her performers would make a point of forcing themselves to do adagios, turns and jumps … was part of the extraordinary masochism she often placed onstage."...

 

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