Matthew Paluch attended a Royal Ballet School Centenary Insight Day. Like the school’s founder, Ninette de Valois, he believes we need more than feelings; we need intelligence.
As the dance work based on Isherwood’s gay novel A Single Man comes to London’s Royal Opera House, Lily Hyde laments the lack of female queerness in ballet.
After seeing English National Ballet’s The Forsythe Programme, Kathrina Farrugia-Kriel reflects on William Forsythe’s career… so far.
Who’s Natalia Makarova? Graham Spicer’s opinion piece for Dancing Times argues that dancers need to ‘open their eyes and ears’.
Part 3 of dance educator John Byrne’s 3-part essay looks at how the Royal Academy of Dance is run and proposes alternative models of management.
Part 2 of dance educator John Byrne’s 3-part essay looks at how the Royal Academy of Dance is run and proposes alternative models of management.
In a three-part essay, dance educator John Byrne looks at how the Royal Academy of Dance is run and proposes alternative models of management.
Dancers and addiction – Matthew Paluch looks at the traits of dancers that could align with addictive behaviour patterning.
Jann Parry – author of the Kenneth MacMillan biography “Different Drummer: The Life of Kenneth MacMillan” – comments on Natalia Osipova’s Manon and directing ballet for film.
Matthew Paluch is left cold by a recent Giselle and asks if the work is the problem or the communication of it.
Matthew Paluch considers ballet dreams vs reality as another ballet school comes under fire for its unacceptable teaching methods.
“Instagram is my weakness, but it’s become a chore. Lot of accounts have gone down the ‘commercial route’ rather than producing themed content for their fans.”
Matthew Paluch asks if the ballet world benefits from the traditional Paris Opera Ballet Concours.
Opening her fridge and taking out a tin of “Faux Gras” – foie gras for vegans – Sylvie Guillem returns to the public eye in an Italian programme about responsible eating. I was part of that group of people who say, “Ah, the poor little lambs, but they’re so tasty,” because I hadn’t seen what…
Italian singer Mina, whose discs top the charts, yet she hasn’t sung in public, not even in television, since 1978, has been the voice of Barilla since the ’60s. Her unmistakable voice tells us why we should buy Barilla’s pasta while one of her songs plays in the background. Mina’s only contact with the public is…
Renée Fleming described it as the worst night of her operatic life, after Celeste Aida Roberto Alagna gave a military salute and walked off stage, Katia Ricciarelli quit the opera house refusing to come back, and Callas, Pavarotti, Verrett, Caballé and many others have all been on the receiving end. Being booed by the loggionisti at Milan‘s Teatro alla Scala…
This is not a food blog, but as food has, in some way, influenced every dancer, musician, actor, and for that matter everyone else on the planet, I though I could squeeze it in. Food had a profound effect on rotund Gioachino Rossini, and I’m guessing that Mariinsky ballerina Ulyana Lopatkina is less of a foodie, but…
Ute Lemper is touring Europe with her cabaret programme which includes material by that most political of theatre writers, Bertolt Brecht. Lemper herself has always been outspoken about her views, upsetting much of the German establishment along the way. The mix of her native German tongue, with almost perfect English and French, might have made…
“The homeless who camp out and sleep under the arches of the San Carlo theatre, one of Naples’ jewels, are emblematic of the degradation of this city” And with this twittered comment, Italian dancer Roberto Bolle set off an avalanche of angry tweets yesterday. The temperatures throughout a snow-covered Italy are low, and many homeless (though not…
The Arab world’s most famous comic actor, Adel Imam, has received a three-month jail sentence for insulting Islam in films and plays. Imam, who has frequently poked fun at authorities and politicians of all colors during a 40-year career, has one month to appeal the sentence and will remain out of jail until the appeal…
The ballet world was surprised when Nacho Duato (ex-director of Spain’s Compañía Nacional de Danza) was headhunted by St Petersburg’s Mikhailovsky Theatre, maybe enticed by the fat wallet of general director Vladimir Kekhman. He has now been at the company’s helm for a year. When Mariinsky star Leonid Sarafanov jumped on board a couple of months later fans were…
Judith Hanna, a 75-year-old grandmother and anthropology professor, spent an afternoon in 2005 on a beach in Jacksonville, Florida, photographing women’s swimsuited backsides, reports Bloomberg News. Hanna, who has spent almost 50 years studying the cultural expression of dance, called the fieldwork “interesting.” Her pictures, meant to demonstrate local enthusiasm for exposed flesh, became evidence…
Since retiring from ballet in 2004, dance star Rex Harrington has been busy as a judge on So You Think You Can Dance Canada – and plans for his wedding to Robert Hope. It’s fitting, then, that he’s chosen the theme of “partnership” for his stage time at Toronto’s Top Ten Event on Thursday, where…
David Berreby on bigthink.com swims against the current of popular opinion and the flood of Amy Winehouse outpourings… Why do we think longevity so natural and right? In part, I think, it’s because we think of it as the byproduct of living well: We like to think the traits that make life sweet are those…
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