In a recent article for the NY Times entitled “Exchanging Slippers For Schoolbooks” Gia Kourlas looked at the motivations of dancers – active and inactive – to further their studies, particularly in the context of the increased attendance at undergraduate courses for “nontraditional students” offered by Columbia University. One of the student-dancers mentioned by Kourlas [...]
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Is this movie for you? Go if: You like your ballets bitter and intense, preferably with a dark twist. You loved Michael Haneke’s The Piano Teacher. You are familiar with Aronofsky’s psychological dramas of obsessive pursuits and human extremes. Skip if: You squirm at the sight of blood and gore. You are a traditionalist and [...]
The Royal Danish Ballet is intrinsically linked to Bournonville, the French ballet-master who shaped the Company, its style (the closest to 19th century French school) and its unique repertoire. But thanks to globalization and a young Artistic Director fresh from the NYCB rosters, the company also dances plenty of Balanchine, another legend whose choreographic style [...]
The Balanchine method is not a syllabus for training per se, but the term is generally applied to describe the way of teaching dancers at the School of American Ballet (the school associated with the New York City Ballet), preparing them for the specific requirements of the Balanchine repertoire with its focus on very quick [...]
