dirac Posted May 2, 2021 Share Posted May 2, 2021 Karen Kain and Fernand Nault are honored with a commemorative stamp. Quote The stamps will be available at post offices across the country on International Dance Day, April 29, 2021. The image features Karen as the black swan Odile in Swan Lake, a significant role and ballet from her career. Related. Quote Nault was with the American Ballet Theatre for 20 years before joining what is now Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal as resident choreographer and co-artistic director in 1965. For over 25 years, he is said to have added a diverse range of works to the company repertoire and also contributed as a guest choreographer abroad. Link to comment
dirac Posted May 2, 2021 Author Share Posted May 2, 2021 A celebration of George Jackson by Alexandra Tomalonis for danceviewtimes. Quote George may have known everybody in the dance world, but he didn’t shill for anyone. I remember one night having dinner with some dance people after a performance, and when George joined after after writing his review for the Post, he said to the choreographer, “I’m afraid you won’t like what I have written.” Everyone laughed, and the dinner continued. Link to comment
dirac Posted May 2, 2021 Author Share Posted May 2, 2021 Ballet Des Moines performs this weekend. Quote This will be a multi-part performance. Two principals from the Miami City Ballet will dance, there will be two ballets performed students at the University of Iowa, and of course Ballet Des Moines will dance two ballets. Link to comment
dirac Posted May 2, 2021 Author Share Posted May 2, 2021 A review of Pennsylvania Ballet by Ivy Lin for Bachtrack. Quote Resilience is a good indicator of Corella’s vision and the kinds of dancers and ballets he values. It’s a hodgepodge of the classical (Raymonda Suite), the neoclassical (George Balanchine’s Allegro Brillante), and the contemporary (Christopher Wheeldon’s Polyphonia and an excerpt of Dwight Rhoden’s And So It Is). Corella dismissed quite a few veteran dancers when he took over Pennsylvania Ballet in 2014, saying that he needed dancers who “could do everything”. Judging by this program, the desired versatility has been achieved. Link to comment
dirac Posted May 2, 2021 Author Share Posted May 2, 2021 A review of Dutch National Ballet by Lyndsey Winship in The Guardian. Quote The dancers of Dutch National Ballet know Dawson’s methods well, as the Royal Ballet-trained Brit has been associate artist there since 2015. It’s credit to them that they’ve fully absorbed this work, created mostly over Zoom. You marvel at the fluency of the opening pas de deux between Anna Ol and James Stout. He scooping her endlessly malleable frame from the floor to fly above his head and dive down to the ground again, all in a continuous thread. Ol and Stout’s expressions follow a mode familiar in contemporary abstract ballet: ominous eyes, the sense of a big breath drawn and held, some object of desire or fear just beyond reach. The music, Philip Glass’s Metamorphosis suite for piano, brings the same unspecific gravitas. Link to comment
dirac Posted May 2, 2021 Author Share Posted May 2, 2021 David McAllister receives the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Award. Quote He told Deborah Knight the award caught him off-guard. “I was going along just to have a lunch, I thought … but they had a few surprises up their sleeves. Link to comment
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