dirac Posted July 3, 2023 Share Posted July 3, 2023 A look at the labor unrest at Australian Ballet. Quote Wages start at about $65,000 and rise to $107,000 for principal dancers. The dancers say they are struggling to meet their cost of living. They say that many of them have built up debt during the pandemic crisis, can't afford nutritious food, have had to drop their private health insurance and are struggling to pay rent (remembering that they need to live close to the theatre). None of this makes for a high performing artist. Link to comment
dirac Posted July 3, 2023 Author Share Posted July 3, 2023 A review of American Ballet Theatre in "Like Water for Chocolate" by Mary Cargill for danceviewtimes.com. Quote he ballet though, especally in the very long first act, focused on the details of the complicated story, while the characters, for all the dancers' commitment and enthusiasm, often remained flat, performing extremely repetitive choreography. Teuscher, a dignified and regal dancer, was a youthful Act I Tita, and a graceful, if often despondent woman later in the ballet, though the choreography varied little from act to act. She spent much of the ballet in complicated and ungainly lifts, pointing and flexing her feet while riding an invisible bicycle. Tita, doomed to spinsterhood by her mother, is the cook of the family, whose meals causes the diners to feel the emotions she had while making the meal. At least in the first act; she pretty much gives up cooking in Acts II and III. Wheeldon takes a very literal approach to events, and to demonstrate Tita's anger and despair at Pedro's and Rosaura's wedding (the wedding feast was prepared by Tita) he has the guests line up facing the audience and vomit; he is too often a choreographer of prose and not poetry. Link to comment
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