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sandik

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  1. In between the recent "Boundless" program, and the upcoming performances of Midsummer Night's Dream, Dylan Wald and Elle Macy are dancing in Minneapolis (Wald's hometown) in "Notjustmoreidlechatter" with Hatch Dance.
  2. Justin Rustle interviews Kaufman, about the breadth of her work, at the Post and elsewhere.
  3. "World Premiere by Danielle Rowe. " She has just joined Oregon Ballet Theater as AD, so she won't have to go very far for rehearsals!
  4. I've often wondered that since Hilarion is a gamekeeper, and so has seen most of the court -- does he actually recognize Loys/Albert before the a-ha moments?
  5. Thanks for this link -- I would have missed it otherwise.
  6. I was curious to see the original review, and found it here. I don't speak German, and so ran it through Google Translate. Some of the language is probably tweaked because of it, but it does sound like she's written negatively about his work before, as well as in this review. Still, it's her job to have an opinion, and express it in a lively way. I'm a dance critic, and I don't expect artists to like me or my work. That goes with the territory. But physical assault is a whole different thing. The New York Times ran an interview with Goecke where he says he's still angry with her. I suppose I'm glad that he's honest about it, but I'm surprised he's willing to say it in an interview. If you're curious, you can watch him in rehearsal for a different work in the World Ballet Day 2021 video (starts around 12:25)
  7. I went to the dress last night, and just wanted to say that, in the way that rehearsals often have glitchy moments so that performances can go better, one of the Wilis lost her wings in a big sweep across the stage. They're not small, and they were in a central location, so I was hoping that someone would find a way to remove them. And Elle Macy stepped right up, scooping them up with her left hand as she made a transition across the space, transferred them to her right hand (which was already holding the myrtle branch), and then, after the branch "breaks" she tossed them both off stage exactly where the choreography tells her to. Bingo!
  8. Ashton Edwards and Zsilas Michael Hughes are interviewed on The Dance Edit podcast about their experiences as non-binary dancers at PNB
  9. Well, Elle Macy seems to be rehearsing Myrtha, according to her Instagram account.
  10. Anyone in the LA area on January 21, please go see flamenco artist Galvan and report back here. I would if I could, but LA is too far away from Seattle for me to manage.
  11. And Patricia Barker is retiring from the Royal New Zealand Ballet. It looks like she'll be heading back towards Seattle, since she's joining the board of Whim Whi'm.
  12. A friend of a friend was in Monte Carlo and saw both Jerome and Laura Tisserand in Maillot's production of Faust. Jerome Tisserand was Faust in one cast, and Laura Tisserand was Death in a second cast.
  13. I saw this show in Portland in October, and was just thrilled. Among his many skills, Teicher is a fantastic swing dancer, and assembled what he calls "the brain trust" of swing experts to put this show together. The first half of the show is choreographed -- the second half is open for everyone (performers and audience) to dance. https://www.jacobspillow.org/events/online-stream-swng-out/?fbclid=IwAR2ztlJbzIkWYBzN-c2D-cejZKcpaSdjwitN-rrOh8Af5JNHsHVoAair4h8
  14. I saw Wald's Drosselmeier, and thought he did an excellent job. He had very clear motivations throughout, and wonderful timing. One thing that really stood out for me was his musicality when he worked with the stick horse -- too often it just lurches back and forth, but his phrasing for that sequence was just right. Many of the performances looked very freshly coached, which often happens opening weekend.
  15. And considering that it was first made for the Paris Opera Ballet, which is much more hierarchical in nature than many other companies, I find that sense of the group dynamic even more astonishing.
  16. I'm feeling sad for Kaufman, for the DC dance community, and the community of dance writers -- this is just a misery. One thing that they didn't mention in the coverage -- she is the second dance writer to get a Pulitzer. The first was Alan Kriegsman, who also wrote for the Washington Post. The paper seems determined to shoot itself in the foot.
  17. The example here, which uses the song associated with a different music video, is indeed close what is identified as Lyrical Jazz today. I find it kind of ironic that it's so different from the music video choreography. What you seem to be interested in is a lyric quality -- that's something that we see in several of the examples you post here (Robbins' "Dances at a Gathering" and the Astaire/Charisse duet "Dancing in the Dark" from "The Bandwagon" have some key things in common, for all that they're using different vocabulary in different genres.). Interestingly, there are big aspects of Lyric Jazz that don't share that fluidity.
  18. Excuse my jumping in here -- I haven't really been participating in the board for awhile so don't know if this is a part of a longer essay or a stand-alone. Since this is posted in the "Modern, Contemporary, and Other" section, I think you might want to separate your above description of "lyrical" dance from the general category of "Lyrical" which is a big part of jazz and contemporary dance styles, especially when practiced in the commercial world. While lyricism in general is a quality that has been identified in dance for many, many years (as some of your examples above show), the label "Lyrical" started to be applied to a particular strain of jazz dance in the middle 1970s.
  19. I certainly can't watch everything on offer in 24 hours, but I'm still so pleased that everyone is bringing themselves to this joint project -- especially during the limitations of the pandemic, many of us relied on streaming programming to see what we could see. As people continue the shift back into the theater, I'm glad to see many companies continue to offer online access -- World Ballet Day is another way to get this window in front of audiences.
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