sandik Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 Heads-up -- PNB alum Jennifer Porter is making a new version of Firebird (contemporary setting, no Slavic references) for Ballet Bellevue (Meydenbauer Center, October 10-12), featuring live music. And Olivier Wevers' Whim W'him company will be guesting on the program, with his version of Les Sylphides, so it's kind of a Ballet Russe revision. Link to comment
sandik Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 Andrew Bartee is one of these 13 young choreographers featured in Dance Spirit magazine Link to comment
sandik Posted November 21, 2014 Share Posted November 21, 2014 Nicholas Ade has been named the CEO of Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet (he had been their principal for the last several years) Link to comment
Helene Posted November 21, 2014 Share Posted November 21, 2014 Wow, congratulations to him. (I still miss his dancing.) Link to comment
Helene Posted December 26, 2014 Share Posted December 26, 2014 From today's Links, between the eight regularly scheduled performances of Grand Rapids Ballet's new "Nutcracker," the private gala (which raised $500K, split with Hospice of Michigan's Pediatric program), according to a linked article in this one, and 4000 school children who saw it, at least 21K people saw the new production, which will tour next season. Choreography was by Val Caniparoli, designs by children's author Chris Van Allsburg, Eugene Lee, and Patricia Barker (costumes). Congratulations to Barker and the company! At this rate, Barker is amassing more actual experience running a company than the vast majority of AD's in North America had taking over a mid- to large-size company. Link to comment
Helene Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 Barry Kerollis just won an Outstanding Choreography award from YAGP. He had four students from Alaska competing in Philadelphia this weekend. http://instagram.com/p/yBQ_EQje06/ Link to comment
sandik Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 Agreed about Chapman -- I missed her in Million Kisses last fall, among other places, and will be very sad if she doesn't get back for the next set of performances. Link to comment
Helene Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 PNB just published this wonderful photo of Maria Chapman and her baby daughter by Stacy (Lowenberg) Ebstyne to Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PNBallet/photos/np.270518957.688777437/10152759085393952/ It's got wonderful energy. I hope the long tulle practice skirt means we'll see Chapman in the Don Q Dream Act. . The reason Chapman has been out is in the photo, but I'm selfish, and I miss her dancing. Link to comment
Helene Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 Barry Kerollis just launched a new dance storytelling project: Kerollis has teamed up with performers from English National Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, Ballet Israel, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Washington Ballet, and Atlanta Ballet, and hopes to have a total of twelve different dancers share their stories via series of YouTube videos. After completing a video interview with each dancer, Kerollis will spend a week with the performer and his or her company, developing choreography that tell that dancer's story. The finished product will be a video that fuses the dancer's interview, story, rehearsal footage, and final performance. "This project brings superhuman dancers down to their most human qualities and inspires people to share without judgment," Kerollis added. http://www.phillymag.com/g-philly/2015/05/13/local-dancer-and-choreographer-launches-global-dance-storytelling-project/ Link to comment
sandik Posted May 22, 2015 Share Posted May 22, 2015 Ariana Lallone has been dancing with Teatro ZinZanni since she retired from PNB in 2011 -- she's adding to her skill set, and will be choreographing their next show as well. Link to comment
Helene Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 An interview with Kent Stowell on PNB's blog: http://blog.pnb.org/2015/05/kent-stowell-on-the-pnb-orchestra-carmina-burana-and-more/ “When we came here, we felt that our only way to make PNB become viable was to try to be one of the best companies in the country if not the world, and that included live music. It was part of the survival of the opera and the symphony – we all had to share the cost of the orchestra; then it became a difficult scheduling and energy problem because they were overworked. And the amazing part was the simple psychological part of leaving – because we gave our check to the symphony, who paid the orchestra – they felt like they were working for nothing for us, because we didn’t write out the checks. It wasn’t physical. So when we started writing checks to the orchestra employees ourselves, they felt a real sense of being a part of PNB. Link to comment
Helene Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 We just received the following message from PNB: As you know, our corps de ballet member Charles McCall retired from PNB at the end of the season. He is now ready to “unveil” his next work-in-progress project, and you - and all of your friends and family - are invited to attend and observe: The Changeling Project A FREE presentationCornish Playhouse201 Mercer Street at Seattle CenterThis Sunday, June 28 at 3:00 pm (followed by Q&A)Thursday, July 2 at 6:00 and 7:00 pm (The Thursday performances will be further development of the project based on feedback from the Sunday presentation.)Charles, along with poet Adriana Campoy, was a recipient of one of Cornish Playhouse’s first Arts Incubator residency grants. Charles and Adriana are developing a poetry-music-movement piece entitled “The Changeling Project.” The work will center on the character of a changeling, a child of two worlds. In the piece, they will explore the balance between two different worlds that we may find ourselves in, either through blood in the form of mixed race, or by association in environments that differ from our internal worlds.Adriana Campoy is a published poet whose dance training includes Velocity Dance Center in Seattle, Shawl-Anderson Dance Center and Berkeley Ballet Theater in Berkeley, CA, and Escuela de Baile Flamenco Jose de la Vega in Barcelona, Spain, among others.Joining Charles and Adriana in this performance are Lauren Kirchner and Patrick Milian.For more information about the Cornish Arts Incubator residency, visit cornish.edu/playhouse/arts_incubator or contact Rosemary Jones, Director of Communications for Cornish College of the Arts: 206.726.5169 or rjones@cornish.edu. Link to comment
sandik Posted June 27, 2015 Share Posted June 27, 2015 Cornish College recently took over the administration of this theater and has been running this incubator program for local artists when the theater is dark -- it's pretty new, but several choreographers have already gotten a chunk of rehearsal/experimental time out of it. Link to comment
Helene Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 Barry Kerollis' interview + choreography project, called "Core-ography" is now a launched project on RocketHub in conjunction with New York Live Arts, which makes contributions tax-deductible (as allowed by law, etc.). The project page, which includes a video and lots of details about the project, is located at: http://www.rockethub.com/projects/59298-core-ography-a-global-dance-storytelling-project#description-tab Link to comment
Helene Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 Barry Kerollis is also one of Ballet Arkansas' five Visions choreographers for its Visions Competition, in which five choreographers will present work on August 22. The prize will be a commission to expand the work for the Spring mixed rep program. Three dance professionals are judges, and the audience is the fourth judge.The five choreographers are: Barry Kerollis (Houston Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet) Boyko Dossev (Boston Ballet) Aidan Deyoung (Smuin Ballet, Ballet West, Post:Ballet) Tom Mattingly (Ballet West and of "Breaking Pointe" fame) Ilya Kozadayev (Houston Ballet) Link to comment
sandik Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 Carla Korbes has jumped right in to her new work with the LA Dance Project. Link to comment
Helene Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 Kimberly Falker interviewed Barry Kerollis for the "Balancing Pointe" podcast. In it he discusses his schooling and career to date, both as a dancer and choreographer, and about his "Core-ography" video project that launches October 1 on YouTube: http://balancing-pointe.com/109-barry-kerollis-free-lance-dancer/ Link to comment
Helene Posted October 11, 2015 Share Posted October 11, 2015 I'm catching up with podcasts, and I listened today to the Balancing Pointe podcast with Reid Bartelme, who with Harriet Jung, designed the costumes for "Debonair," Justin Peck's ballet for PNB. (Bartelme and Jung have been designing for Peck since his early work.) I knew the name looked familiar, but didn't remember why until I learned from the podcast that I would have had seen him with PNB as a Professional Division student. He was a PD for a year and a half, and after he had The Talk with Francia Russell, and she told him there wasn't going to be a contract for him at PNB, joined BalletMet, then Alberta Ballet before he returned to NYC and danced with Shen Wei and then Lar Lubovitch, after which he studied full time at FIT. http://balancing-pointe.com/84-designer-reid-bartelme/ My favorite part was when he described the training he got under Yoko Ichino, David Nixon's wife who stayed at the BalletMet school after Nixon left to become AD of Northern Ballet. Link to comment
Helene Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 In the re-opening the wound category, Jahna Frantziskonis is blogging for SFB about their tour to China: http://sfballetblog.org/2015/10/china-tour-diary-week-1/ Link to comment
sandik Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 I'm glad that she's getting opportunities -- I'm just sorry not to see her in this next part of her career. Link to comment
Helene Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 Kimberly Falker did a great interview with Olivier Wevers for The Balancing Pointe podcast: http://balancing-pointe.com/159-olivier-wevers-founder-and-artistic-director-of-whim-whim-dance-company/ He's so smart. Link to comment
choriamb Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 In the re-opening the wound category, Jahna Frantziskonis is blogging for SFB about their tour to China: http://sfballetblog.org/2015/10/china-tour-diary-week-1/ She was especially noticeable in Scarlett's new Fearful Symmetries last night. (Whatever the merits of the work, everyone actually looked great. But SFB's corps de ballet is so very stylistically uniform and cool that even a minor difference in training and temperature reads quite large in that company.) Link to comment
seattle_dancer Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 She was especially noticeable in Scarlett's new Fearful Symmetries last night. (Whatever the merits of the work, everyone actually looked great. But SFB's corps de ballet is so very stylistically uniform and cool that even a minor difference in training and temperature reads quite large in that company.) Wow I loved Jahna in Fearful Symmetries - so fierce, sassy, edgy like I've never seen her before. So cool she had a little solo! I wish she was in Sunday's cast but look forward to seeing her in Drink to Me with Thine Eyes (and assuming she is in Rubies also). Link to comment
Helene Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 In the latest issue of "Dance Magazine" there's an article that highlights Megan Fairchild and Barry Kerollis' use of new media: Breaking the Fourth Wall Link to comment
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