Friday, April 24

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A profile of Robert Garland by Gia Kourlas in The New York Times.

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In “Higher Ground” Mr. Garland has created something rare in classical dance: a ballet with a message. Seen during a rehearsal just days before the citywide shutdown, it is a marvel of a work that shows off Mr. Garland’s many choreographic gifts, from his sparkling musicality to his ability to seamlessly weave classical ballet with influences from modern and social dance.

 

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Milwaukee Ballet class goes online.

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There are a few hundred students in the long standing Milwaukee Releve program. They work hard throughout the year to learn about the arts and perfect their points. 

“When you rise up its called a releve in ballet. This program serves 280 students from MPS from three schools, so Alba, Allenfield and Parkside. During the school year from October to the end of April, the students these kids come to Milwaukee Ballet once a week for a ballet class,” Chavez said.

 

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A story on an Ashton master class conducted by Wayne Eagling and Merle Park by Deborah Weiss for DanceTabs.

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Eagling commented on the ‘paddling’ of supported pirouettes.  “I blame it on the Cubans,” he said. His message was to allow the ballerina to pirouette on her own, then support her – not to be instrumental in pushing her around, like a pottery wheel. The lifts looked exceedingly taxing, yet Zucchetti seemed to find Herculean strength, without a hint of strain and claimed at one point that O’Sullivan was, ”Too light!”
 

 

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A review of two recent dance books, What You Become in Flight and Jerome Robbins, by Himself by Rachel Howard for the Fjord Review.

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Meanwhile, the recently released Jerome Robbins, by Himself is not mere pandemic refuge, but a timeless book every dancer, choreographer, and dance-lover should have on the shelf. Amanda Vaill, author of the most authoritative of Robbins biographies, Somewhere, has done the dance world a tremendous service by culling the most vibrant, gut-wrenching, and illuminating of Robbins’ notes and letters, as well as excerpts from an unpublished memoir, and arranging them by life-phases, with a short overview of his personal and creative life opening each section.