Dance Magazine back issues from May 2000:
Wallflower at the Oscars.(dance number dropped from ceremony)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2000; ... THERE'S BEEN HIGH dudgeon recently about the decision that was made to omit the dance number from this year's Oscar telecast. So much dudgeon, in fact, that perhaps by the time you read this the producers will have been persuaded to change their minds. But the whole question of ...
A New View From the Wings Dance scape.(Brief Article)
May 01, 2000 ... THE INAUGURAL exhibit at Boston Ballet Gallery is a series of velvety black and white portraits of dancers of the Boston Ballet by photographer Lisa Blalock, who graciously loaned her work for these pages and this month's Dance Magazine cover. Blalock's work was also ...
Let's Get Critical.(Brief Article)
May 01, 2000; ... CRITICS--as the cynical witticism goes--hide out in the hills watching the battle in the valley below and then come down to kill all the survivors. Harsh? Not everybody would agree, because the subject of critics and what they produce is loaded with emotion. In dance we have particular ...
Summer Performance Guide THE COOLEST SHOWS FOR HOTNIGHTS 2000.(Directory)
May 01, 2000 ... SUMMER PERFORMANCE GUIDE lists performances and festivals in May, June, July, August, and early September (through Labor Day). Companies performing at a festival are listed sequentially in the Festivals category. Dance events other than performances are listed at the end as space allows ....
Readers' Forum.(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
May 01, 2000; ... KIDS NEED NUREYEV PRIMER I am writing in response to Glenn Giffin's review of The Dancer Who Flew: A Memoir of Rudolf Nureyev, which appeared in the March 2000 issue of Dance Magazine. Your reviewer asks, "Did we need another book about the enfant terrible of ...
CORRECTION.(Brief Article)(Correction Notice)
May 01, 2000 ... Some of the captions in the March 2000 story on BodyVox were incorrect. Cristina Patricelli-Betts appears in the ...
ADVICE FOR DANCERS.(Brief Article)
May 01, 2000; ... Q Each time I look at my muscular legs in the mirror, I want to curl up in a ball and cry. For a while I could make them look better with Pilates exercises. But my mom can't pay for more classes on top of twenty hours of dance a week. Now I hate my body, even though I'm thin! ...
SPOLETO MAY LOSE BILL T. JONES.(NAACP boycott of dance festival)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2000; ... THE SHOW must go on, said organizers of this year's Spoleto Festival USA, with or without one of its main attractions: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. Jones announced in March that he might cancel his performance in support of an economic boycott of Charleston, South Carolina, ...
BOURNE'S `CAR MAN': BIZARRE BIZET.(Brief Article)
May 01, 2000; ... "COMING SOON: very, very dirty dancing," proclaimed the British newspaper headline. It was certainly eye-catching, but not a topic that normally deserved further scrutiny. However, the subject of this dirty dancing was none other than Adventures in Motion Pictures, the two-time Tony ...
STARRY REUNION FOR RUSSES VETERANS.(Brief Article)
May 01, 2000; ... THE LAST REMAINING dancers of the Ballets Russes, the legendary company founded ninety years ago by Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev, will convene in New Orleans June 1-4 for a historical reunion dubbed the Ballets Russes Celebration. Many of the dancers who plan to attend ...
TAPPERS CLICK UP THEIR HEELS.(Brief Article)
May 01, 2000; ... THE ELEVENTH ANNUAL celebration of National Tap Dance Day at New York City's Town Hall is scheduled for May 28. Though an 11-year-old Act of Congress officially designated National Tap Dance Day as May 25, birthday of tap great Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, the New York Committee to Celebrate ...
HOLLAND'S BLANKERT HAS TWO-TRACK MIND.(Review)
May 01, 2000; ... NOW ARRIVING from Amsterdam: an unusual production that replicates a train station. Choreographer Beppie Blankert will set Dubbelspoor (Double Track) in the garage of Manhattan performance space The Dance Theater Workshop May 12-21. Originally choreographed for two women, ...
WOMEN'S WORK INFORMS BACK PORCH PROJECT.(Brief Article)
May 01, 2000; ... BACK PORCH Dance Company, an interracial, intergenerational, all-woman troupe based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, brings its millennial project, "Celebrating Cambridge Women and Work," to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology May 18-19. The full-length dance/theater piece is ...
ALASKA DANCE THEATER EYES RESIDENCY STATUS.(Brief Article)
May 01, 2000; ... ALASKA DANCE Theater, Alaska's largest dance organization, concludes its fifteenth performing season with the presentation of Encore! May 20 at the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts in Anchorage. With the performance, ADT also fulfills the second year of its three-year ...
MODERN INNOVATOR ERDMAN HONORED.(Brief Article)
May 01, 2000; ... BECAUSE THE WORK of modern dance pioneer Jean Erdman made such a significant imprint on the last century, it was especially appropriate that the millennial retrospective Dance 2000, staged by the University of Hawaii at Manoa in February, was dedicated to her. Now 83, Erdman ...
COLORADO HOPING FOR MACDIARMID MAGlC.
May 01, 2000; ... IN ITS CONTINUING quest for long-range survival, the Colorado Dance Festival Board of Trustees has hired Katie MacDiarmid as executive director. MacDiarmid joined CDF in late February, after two years as executive director of Florida's Mount Dora Center for the Arts. While CDF ...
BALLET AUSTIN TAPS DANCER TO LEAD COMPANY.(Brief Article)
May 01, 2000; ... STEPHEN MILLS, a longtime principal dancer with Ballet Austin, has been named the company's new artistic director. The announcement was made February 17 at Ballet Austin. After an extensive ten-month search, the Ballet Austin board of directors selected Mills from an international array of ...
PEOPLE AND COMPANIES IN THE NEWS.(Brief Article)
May 01, 2000 ... THE VIRGINIA Waterfront Festival is the only East Coast stop this year for Farukh Ruzimatov and the Stars of the Russian Ballet, who pay tribute to Nijinsky May 5 with highlights from The Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, Carmen, and Le Corsaire. Ten dancers, including the Kirov's Lilia ...
ABT'S HIGHTON MAKES WASHINGTON COMEBACK.(Brief Article)
May 01, 2000; ... WHEN THE curtain rose Feb. 10 on Washington Ballet's new staging of Antony Tudor's romantic classic The Leaves Are Fading, viewers who had seen the work debut at American Ballet Theatre twenty-five years earlier were taken by surprise. Had the clock stood still? Had we traveled back in ...
Bournonville: Will an August Tradition Endure?
May 01, 2000; ... AUGUST BOURNONVILLE (1805-1879) was banished from the kingdom, endured a period of exile, survived two rebellious ballerinas, the Danish Revolution of 1848, and fifty years of backstage politics. Artist and benevolent despot, he turned a provincial ballet company into one of the world's ...
THE TEACH-LEARN CONNECTION.(News Briefs)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2000; ... LAWRENCE, KS--Professor of Dance Janet Hamburg showed up as Certified Laban Movement Analyst of the month on the Web site of the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies (www.limsonline.org). A longtime teacher at the University of Kansas, Hamburg's forays into movement education ...
The Ageless Exactitude of Madame Tumkovsky.
May 01, 2000; ... THE MEETING room at the School of American Ballet filled with laughter when Madame Antonina Tumkovsky said, "I am 94--94 and a half. Half very important at my age." True enough, but one has the feeling that the fraction would be just as important to the lady were she half the age she is ...
Croise Suki Schorer on Balanchine Technique (Fifth in a series).(Brief Article)
May 01, 2000; ... THE DANCER in croise is seen between profile and facing, the shoulders and hips generally facing one diagonal with the shoulders aligned generally on the other diagonal. The crossing of the legs seen by the public gives the name. The feet and legs are in exactly the same relation as they ...
A Better Winner.(Brief Article)
May 01, 2000; ... AS DIRECTORS of competitions for more than twenty years, we have heard our share of rumors and rude remarks about other educators or dancers; we've learned to take each comment with a grain of salt. Since dance is an evolving art form, most likes and dislikes are matters of personal ...
TRANSITIONS.(Brief Article)(Obituary)
May 01, 2000 ... BETTY MACDONALD BATCHELLER, 92, a talented member of Martha Graham's first dance company and a Broadway actress, died January 15 in Greenwich, Connecticut. Macdonald began her artistic career as a student at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. Martha Graham, who ...
BEFORE YOU SIGN On The Dotted Line.
May 01, 2000; ... ONE OF THE most satisfying experiences the proud new owner of a liberal arts degree can have is signing that very first contract. One of the biggest mistakes the new graduate can make, however, is neglecting to thoroughly examine what is in the contract--and what is not. Case in ...
THARP'S 'SEVENTH' LEADS NYCB SEASON.(Review)
May 01, 2000; ... THARP'S 'SEVENTH' LEADS NYCB SEASON NEW YORK CITY BALLET NEW YORK STATE THEATER NEW YORK, NEW YORK JANUARY 4-FEBRUARY 27, 2000 With passionate diligence, Twyla Tharp weaves dances of incredible complexity bound by a rigorous sense of order. Sometimes, it's true, the steps can ...
COLKER'S GIDDY SPIN.(Review)
May 01, 2000; ... COLKER'S GIDDY SPIN COMPANHIA DE DANCA DEBORAH COLKER JOYCE THEATER NEW YORK, NEW YORK FEBRUARY 16-20, 20000 Brazilian choreographer Deborah Colker's Rota (1997) is an embarrassment of riches, so chock-full of wonderful ideas that they crowd each other. Colker's imagination is ...
MERCE AT MARTHA @ MOTHER.(Review)
May 01, 2000; ... MERCE AT MARTHA @ MOTHER NEW YORK, NEW YORK FEBRUARY 29, 2000 A tiny nightclub in the meat district, Martha@Mother is packing them in for its hilarious send-ups of early modern dance. This is the fourth season that the Bessie Award-winning co-producers Richard Move and Janet ...
CHOICES HINDER DENVER DANCERS.(Review)
May 01, 2000; ... CHOICES HINDER DENVER DANCERS COLORADO BALLET JOYCE THEATER NEW YORK, NEW YORK FEBRUARY 1-6, 2000 What do they say about the first three desirable requisites of real estate? Location, location, location! With a dance company, particularly a dance company making its debut in a ...
SURREAL, SUBLIME CREATURES.(Review)
May 01, 2000; ... SURREAL, SUBLIME CREATURES ANN CARLSON P.S. 122 NEW YORK, NEW YORK FEBRUARY 10-20, 2000 Who but Ann Carlson could fill an entire evening with three ten-minute solos? Grass/Bird/Rodeo are quirky portraits of eccentric characters that typically burst from her fecund imagination ....
FESTIVAL UNEARTHS WEALTH OF BRAZILIAN DANCE.(Review)
May 01, 2000; ... FESTIVAL UNEARTHS WEALTH OF BRAZILIAN DANCE FESTIVAL DE DANCA DO RIO DE JANEIRO TAPIAS TEATRO ODYLO COSTA FILHO - UERJ RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL NOVEMBER 7-22, 1999 The Brazilian dance scene is hugely unexplored terrain, populated by artists hungry to be seen by the rest of the ...
CASANOVA RIDES AGAIN.(Review)
May 01, 2000; ... CASANOVA RIDES AGAIN PARIS OPERA BALLET PALAIS GARNIER PARIS, FRANCE JANUARY 25-FEBRUARY 6, 2000 Besides his reputation as a masterful womanizer, Casanova, the eighteenth-century Italian seducer, was known for his lifelong battle with syphilis. It has been said that he actually ...
GENDER DIVIDE MOVES WEST IN `TEA'.(Review)
May 01, 2000; ... GENDER DIVIDE MOVES WEST IN `TEA' MODERN DANCE TURKEY BLOOMSBURY THEATRE LONDON, ENGLAND JANUARY 13-14, 2000 Modern Dance Turkey is the Islamic World's sole state-funded contemporary dance company. Forget the unintended pun in this Ankara-based troupe's name. On the evidence of ...
DUO FINDS TANGO MAGIC.(Review)
May 01, 2000; ... DUO FINDS TANGO MAGIC THE HOLY BODY TATTOO VANCOUVER EAST CULTURAL CENTRE VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA FEBRUARY 15-19, 2000 The opening tango, full of uncertainty and achingly slow, is the truest part of the Holy Body Tattoo's hour-long Circa, choreographed and performed ...
LOCK RUBS SALT IN WOUNDS.(Review)
May 01, 2000; ... LOCK RUBS SALT IN WOUNDS LA LA LA HUMAN STEPS YERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS THEATER SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA FEBRUARY 10-13, 2000 Forget the wild abandon, the crash-and-burn partnering, the vertiginous spectacle for which Montreal's La La La Human Steps was known. In Salt, ...
BROWN'S FORM AND FUNCTION.(Review)
May 01, 2000; ... BROWN'S FORM AND FUCTION TRISHA BROWN DANCE COMPANY EISENHOWER THEATER, KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS WASHINGTON, D. C. FEBRUARY 17-19, 2000 Trisha Brown's mastery of form is awe some. In presenting the body, she highlights contours and planes. When placing her dancers ...
PENDLETON'S `PASSION' PLAY MOMIX.(Review)
May 01, 2000; ... ALEX THEATRE LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA FEBRUARY 5, 2000 REVIEWED BY DONNA PERLMUTTER Moses Pendleton made his mark as a master of trompe l'oeil. Indeed, this human kaleidoscope of a dancer/acrobat/choreographer personifies the now-you-see-it-now-you-don't genre of stagecraft. ...
BART'S STAR RISES IN PARIS.(Brief Article)
May 01, 2000; ... ALTHOUGH HEAVY winds may have blown through the French capital before the otherwise joyous eve of the new millennium, they didn't stop the Paris Opera Ballet from celebrating the year 2000 in style. After a star-studded gala performance on New Year's Eve, it was time for Jean Guillaume ...
JERSEY BALLET COMPANY ADDS TWO.(News Briefs)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2000; ... GLEN GALATAN has been appointed director of marketing for American Repertory Ballet, New Jersey largest dance troupe. Galatan, a New Jersey native, has worked for more than 10 years in marketing and public relations for companies in the food industry. The New Brunswick-based ARB ...
Dance Books.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2000; ... IT TOOK a while for the world of books to document the course of those cultural forces unleashed by jazz music and dance, but four recent titles track the influences in popular culture and the world of high art. Nowhere was the emergence of jazz more explosive than in ...
CHICAGO DANCE FINDS LAKEFRONT DIGS.(Brief Article)
May 01, 2000; ... AFTER A DECADE of planning, a $35 million, 1,500-seat theater for music and dance will begin taking shape along the lakefront in Chicago's Millennium Park. Construction begins in September for Music and Dance Theatre Chicago, designed by Thomas Beeby. It will occupy a 110- by 220-foot ...
New Broadway Season Skimps on Dance.(Brief Article)
May 01, 2000; ... THIS YEAR, like others, new Broadway productions are being tailored to attract New York's influx of summer tourists--shows like the revival of Jesus Christ Superstar, which opened in April; Aida, the $12 million Disney musical at the Palace (choreographed by Wayne Cilento), and the Public ...
A Tempus Fugit Jubilee--Of Sorts.
May 01, 2000; ... AS THEY RUEFULLY say, time flies when you're having fun. Or even if you're not, for that matter! There I was, sitting down at my trusty old computer, listening with one ear to a CD of Tchaikovsky piano music, wondering what to do with the other ear, and preparing to write something about ...
Presenting the Presenters: Killacky and White.
May 01, 2000; ... WHEN THE HISTORY of American dance in the last generation of the twentieth century is ultimately written, both John R. Killacky and David Randolph White will rate considerably more than a footnote. Neither is a dancer, a choreographer, a composer, or a visual artist; and if you ask them to ...
IRWIN AND COMPANY TAP INTO JOY.(Review)
May 01, 2000; ... IRWIN AND COMPANY TAP INTO JOY NEW YORK COMMITTEE TO CELEBRATE NATIONAL TAP DANCE DAY WITH HOST/PERFORMER BILL IRWIN TOWN HALL NEW YORK, NEW YORK FEBRUARY 25, 2000 Bill Irwin is a masterful comedian, a world-class mime, and a witty emcee. He is also a beautiful dancer. As host ...
BROADWAY VET FINDS MEANING IN MOTION.(Brief Article)
May 01, 2000; ... DAVID CONNOLLY'S life demonstrates the quintessential balancing act between career and community service. A 1999 recipient of The Premiere of Ontario, Canada's Award of Excellence for outstanding contribution to the field of applied arts, the Broadway dancer, singer, and choreographer has ...