Ok, I was going to title this piece “Dance in the post-Covid age” but it would be blithely naive of me to think we’re anywhere close to post-Covid. The following text comprises my unstructured, and at times only mildly informed, opinions about the goings on in the dance community and musings on the near futureContinue reading “Dance in the age of Covid-19”
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New York City Ballet Digital Spring Season, Part 2
6. Balanchine & Robbins A smorgasbord of excerpts and one full length work awaited me as I sought out my twice weekly fix of NYCB this morning. It has become the only time marker in my house – Wednesday and Saturday mornings (I’m on GMT here in Donegal, Ireland) – and what a lovely wayContinue reading “New York City Ballet Digital Spring Season, Part 2”
Gamechangers: the artists who changed, and are changing, the course of ballet
When we look back over the illustrious, if relatively short, history of ballet, its course is defined by those who changed what ballet – in its various guises – looked like and how it was done. Marie Taglioni, Vaslav Nijinsky, Pierina Legnani, Anna Pavlova, Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev, Suzanne Farrell, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Sylvie Guillem….as weContinue reading “Gamechangers: the artists who changed, and are changing, the course of ballet”
New York City Ballet Digital Spring Season, Part 1
Very rarely has dance on screen even come close to the thrill of live performance. When I was in ballet school, I think I watched every piece of footage in the library and as much as I liked them, most failed to come close to the in-person experience. That’s why, when I saw that NewContinue reading “New York City Ballet Digital Spring Season, Part 1”
Dance Monologue 