dirac Posted May 30, 2021 Share Posted May 30, 2021 BalletMet plans to bring back its Nutcracker. Quote “I will never take ‘Nutcracker’ for granted again,” said Artistic Director Edwaard Liang, a former New York City Ballet dancer who has attended, appeared in or overseen countless “Nutcrackers” during his career. Link to comment
dirac Posted May 30, 2021 Author Share Posted May 30, 2021 Carlos Acosta looks forward to performing for audiences again. Quote “It was so painful,” he told France Press in his studio, having had time to meet dancers in person before they all found themselves trapped in the near-impossible task of training online from their kitchens. “This institution is too big” and “everything was new to me,” he admits, from running the orchestra to how to “keep the finances floating”: he and the president, Caroline Miller, cut their paychecks so they could pay 100% of her 60 dancers. Link to comment
dirac Posted May 30, 2021 Author Share Posted May 30, 2021 Korean dancers will perform in a gala next month. Quote This year, organizers have invited dancers such as Lee Choong-hoon from the Dance Theater of Harlem in New York, Kim Seok-ju of the Boston Ballet, Lee Ju-ho of the Estonia Vanemuine Opera Ballet Theater, Lee Ji-yong of the Hessisches Staatsballett in Wiesbaden, Germany, Chung Hye-min of the Sine Qua Non Art Company in France, Yang Jong-ye of the Dairakudakan Company in Japan and Choi Yoo-jeong, a former member of the Paris Opera Ballet. Link to comment
dirac Posted May 31, 2021 Author Share Posted May 31, 2021 An obituary for Carla Fracci by Emily Langer in The Washington Post. Quote Ms. Fracci’s mother, who worked in an automobile factory, was from Cremona, in the Po River Valley of Northern Italy, where the family took refuge from bombings during World War II. Ms. Fracci’s son said she recalled those years, among the farmers, as the happiest of her life. Link to comment
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