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Dance and performance separated by parallel lines
'Performance' may be the meeting point between dancers and visual artists - but we still can't understand each other

 

 

Free at last: Störling Dance Theater scores stellar success with work on Underground Railroad (read)

 

RAILING AGAINST SLAVERY

Kansas City Star calls Underground "Riviting, Powerful"

 

But Can You Dance to It?

Record Labels Bet on Songs With Built-In Moves; The 'Chicken Noodle Soup'

A pair of teenagers recently flew to New York to sign a contract with Universal Motown. When they met the record label's president, they demonstrated how they would promote their music -- by flapping their elbows, gliding on their toes and raising up their arms. (Read)

 

 

A triple bill with revivals of works by Asaf Messerer and Twyla Tharp framing a Christopher Wheeldon premier e — that sounded like an interesting programme amid the evening-long productions that made up (as reported last week) the rest of the Bolshoi Ballet's London season. Sadly, I found two of the works profoundly depressing. In Moscow, http://www.danceviewtimes.com/index.html

 

Ballet Shoes is essential reading for aspiring dancers

The dramatisation of Noel Streatfeild's Ballet Shoes has only just been announced, but speculation is already rising as to whether it will galvanise a new generation of hopeful ballerinas and recreate the much-vaunted Billy Elliot effect for girls. (read more)

 

Vail raises the barre for Colorado dance

http://www.denverpost.com/entertainment/ci_6641796

 

The Center of the Dance World?

http://www.artsjournal.com/danceforum/2005/12/the_antinew_york_bias.html