dirac Posted April 14, 2021 Share Posted April 14, 2021 NPR interview with Twyla Tharp. Quote On performing dance without music Music is much more comfortable for the general public than movement. I often say: Take one phrase of movement and put on happy music, [and] the audience thinks it's a happy dance. Put on sad music and they'll think it's a sad dance, and the movement is exactly the same. So I wanted to try to see what the emotional resonance of movement was. What excited people? What was provocative? What would they register? Not all of those, but many visual questions were asked. And that wouldn't have been possible with music, because music is so overpowering. Link to comment
dirac Posted April 20, 2021 Author Share Posted April 20, 2021 A review of Barre Project: Blake Works II by Jann Parry for DanceTabs. Quote The reason for the barre is given in the opening dedication ‘for all those who have sustained themselves with a barre in any form’. As dancers stuck at home know, a barre can be a chair back, kitchen unit, tabletop or bookcase shelf. In a dance studio, it serves as the support for a daily ritual, accompanied by music – a pianist or a recording. Forsythe’s choice is five tracks from albums by British composer and performer James Blake. This is the second time he has choreographed to Blake’s music: the first was a 2016 work for the Paris Opera Ballet, due to Enter English National Ballet’s repertoire in 2022. Link to comment
dirac Posted April 21, 2021 Author Share Posted April 21, 2021 A review of San Francisco Ballet by Janice Berman for San Francisco Classical Voice. Quote Jewels on video embodies why we sit in theaters in the dark. As danced, it’s thoroughly virtuosic. As a ballet, it’s exquisite, as might be expected from a work whose three sections are titled Emeralds (music by Fauré), Rubies (Stravinsky) and Diamonds (Tchaikovsky). It’s romantic. It’s charming. It’s frisky. It’s majestic. Hang on just a little longer, says Jewels. Help is on the way. Link to comment
dirac Posted April 21, 2021 Author Share Posted April 21, 2021 Richard Stoker, who composed "The Garden Party" for Frederick Ashton and Peter Darrell, is dead at age 82. Quote Mr Stoker was born in 1938. He started playing the piano at six; by the age of seven he was composing. After initial encouragement from Arthur Benjamin and Benjamin Britten, he studied under Lennox Berkeley at the Royal Academy of Music. Related. Link to comment
dirac Posted April 25, 2021 Author Share Posted April 25, 2021 Colorado Ballet gives its only performance of the season. (TV news report) Link to comment
Recommended Posts