Jan McNulty

Links - Wednesday 29 July, 2020

Obituary - Zizi Jeanmaire, Dancer & Cabaret Artiste:  Times

Feature - Jeffrey Cirio, English National Ballet:  Marissa DeSantis, Dance Magazine

Historic Film Review - Dance Girl Dance:  Graham Fuller, Arts Desk

Feature - Aspen Santa Fe Ballet and the state of the organisation:  Erica Robbie, Aspen Daily News

Video Feature - Elmhurst Ballet School helping young dancers with body image:  BBC

News Feature - Ayrshire dance schools left in limbo over re-opening date:  Toni Lennox, Daily Record

Hello Balletbuds80 and welcome to the Forum!

This is really good stuff.  Thanks for reporting back Michelle.

38 minutes ago, alison said:

 

Whoopee!!  ??  Actually, haven't we been complaining about how little actual arts there are on Sky Arts these days?

Yes, there's a reasonable amount of ballet on their equivalent of the IPlayer but the back catalogue is not being put in the free domain (I've just had an email about my NOW entertainment subscription).

Thank you Cherilyn, I really enjoyed that!

Not that it's got anything to do with the price of fish but one of my closest friends spent the whole of June in intensive care (including over 2 weeks in an induced sleep and on a ventilator) because of a severe attack of COPD.  (The medical staff were amazing).  She's now home and has just come out of her recommended sheltering.  She wears a mask even though she could get an exemption.

Links - Tuesday 28 July, 2020

Feature - Compañía Nacional de Danza performed (live) at festival in Granada:  Marina Harss, NY Times

Streaming News:  Ballet Hispánico announces August watch party:  News Desk, Broadway World

Streaming Review - Jonathan Glazer, Strasbourg 1518:  Gerard Davis, Dancing Review

News - Miami City Ballet returns to previous location to get back into a socially-distanced studio:  WSVN

Streaming Review - Preeti Vasudevan and collaborators, The Red Curtain Project:  Jerry Hochman, Critical Dance

News Feature - NAI NI Chen Dance Company announces The Bridge - a virtual dance institute:  Staff, New Jersey Stage

Links - Monday 27 July, 2020

Interview - Beryl Grey, ballet legend:  Lyndsey Winship, Guardian

Streaming Reviews - Royal Ballet, Sleeping Beauty:

John O’Dwyer, Seen and Heard International

Helen Tope, Reviews Hub

Emma-Jane Betts, The Upcoming

Review - Universal Ballet, Onegin, Seoul:  Im Eun-Byel, Korea Herald

Sad news indeed but what a wonderful long life she had and with a stellar body of work to remember her.  RIP

Oh Angela, how very, very wonderful that you have been able to go to a theatre and see a live dance performance.  Thank you so much for reporting back.

Links - Sunday 26 July, 2020

TV/iPlayer Preview - Imagine: Kate Prince - Every Move She Makes:  Teresa Guerreiro, Culture Whisper

News - Elmhurst Ballet School will offer Back to Dance masterclasses:  News Desk, Broadway World

News from America:

Sacramento Ballet cancels season, loses Artistic Director:  Sonya Sorich, Sacramento Business Journal

Aspen Santa Fe Ballet takes gala event online:  Andrew Travers, Aspen Times

Streaming - Oregon Ballet Theatre, Interval:  via Broadway World

Streaming Reviews:

Documentary - Maguy Marin, L’Urgence d’Agir (A Time to Act):  Rose Marija, Broadway World

Ishmael/Bebe/Ralph, Relations:  Wendy Perron, Blog

This is a rather lovely and inspirational interview with Mlindi Kulashe of Northern Ballet.  He talks about his experience of a dance competition in Singapore and the Genée:

Hello Profdance and welcome to the Forum!

21 minutes ago, maddhead said:

If people don't discuss these things openly the perpetrators simply get away with it for even longer. If forums like this can't allow open conversation, what is the point of them? When threads are removed due to pressure from parties that have the power and the money to threaten legal action, that is not freedom of speech or democracy. Anonymity is of course necessary in many cases, but that doesn't mean a situation or issue can't be discussed, without names being mentioned.

 

The moderation on this site appears to sometimes be in favour of those who others are trying to expose. If people have issues with a particular school, or person in that school, they should be allowed to openly discuss their concerns - if they feel it relevant to name people, so be it. If those named have nothing to hide then there shouldn't be a problem. If they get their solicitors in to shut down any negative publicity - doesn't that ring alarm bells? Just saying.

 

I wonder how long this message will be allowed?? 

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This sounds like a good opportunity!

54 minutes ago, Melody said:

This just showed up on YouTube, from the Scottish Ballet.

 

 

This is fabulous!  Thanks for sharing Melody.

7 hours ago, Bruce Wall said:

 

 'transmisibility' (Is that a word? ... 

 

 

Yes it is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmissibility

ENB at HOME: Youth Dance Course
3 – 7 August 2020 
www.ballet.org.uk/youth-dance-course-summer-intensive

This summer (3-7 August), English National Ballet will run a course of free online classes for young dancers aged 14-19 years. 

The course, curated by ENBYouthCo Creative Director Richard Bermange, will be streamed on English National Ballet’s YouTube channel and aims to give young dancers an opportunity to work on technique, develop skills and learn from leading professional artists from the dance world. 

Each day sees a 60-minute dance class focussed on keeping active, maintaining technique and expressing creativity in the morning, followed by a 75-minute choreographic creative workshop in the afternoon with guest artists Renaud Wiser and Malgorzata Dzierzon, and on Friday, a West End Broadway workshop with Carrie Johnson. Full programme below. 

Day 1 – Monday 3 August
11am — Ballet Technique with Richard Bermange
Richard will lead a ballet class beginning with barre and moving into the centre, with a focus on building upon technique and practising safely at home.
1pm — Choreography with Malgorzata (Gosia) Dzierzon*

Day 2 – Tuesday 4 August
11am — Contemporary Creative with Naomi Cook
Naomi’s creative, release-based class will encourage participants to continue to travel in space and with weight, despite working in potentially confined dimensions.
1pm — Creative Choreography with Malgorzata (Gosia) Dzierzon*

Day 3 – Wednesday 5 August
11am — Ballet with Crystal Costa
Crystal has found great joy in sharing her discoveries learned throughout her dancing career. Her classes are filled with energy and are aimed at sharing her love of dance with her students. Crystal brings a focus on dynamics, musicality and where to feel the energy in the body in order to enhance movement. She aims to energise her students with passion and determination to explore and discover what the body and mind are capable of.
1pm — Creative Choreography with Renaud Wiser*

Day 4 – Thursday 6 August
11am — Contemporary Technique with James Muller
Drawing on his years of experience with Richard Alston Dance Company, James’s progressive technique class will explore musicality and phrasing with precision and playfulness. The class is Cunningham-based with elements of release work.
1pm — Creative Choreography with Renaud Wiser*

Day 5 – Friday 7 August
11am — Yoga and Meditation with Crystal Costa
Crystal will be sharing a yoga practice connecting mindful movement with breath, focusing on internalising throughout. She enjoys sharing how yoga has helped keep her grounded and balanced both mentally and physically throughout her dancing career. Her practice is aimed at finding a connection with the body and mind and creating a sense of a moving meditation.
1pm — Broadway/West End workshop with Carrie Johnson

The session will involve learning repertoire from one of McOnie Company's first full dance shows, which was created in collaboration with composer Tasha Taylor Johnson in 2012. As an Olivier award winning choreographer and Broadway theatre director, Drew McOnie’s work focuses on celebrating the unique qualities in each dancer and focuses on the creation of dance material that is authentic to each artist. The session will deliver an insight into the productions choreographic material and what the process was like being part of the original company. 

*Choreography Sessions 1&2 Malgorzata (Gosia) Dzierzon and 3&4 Renaud Wiser

Led by this year’s Dance Journeys Artistic Co-Directors the choreographic sessions will draw on English National Ballet’s legacy as a springboard to develop creativity. Participants will learn new choreography inspired by English National Ballet’s repertoire and bring their own unique movement to the sessions in response to images and recordings from the Company’s history.

This summer intensive follows the success of English National Ballet’s spring Youth Dance Course, which recieved almost 90,000 views, and is just one of the many online classes and programmes on offer as part of ENB at HOME. ENB at HOME classes are tailored to suit a range of ages and abilities and include a series of professional Company Classes lead by Artistic Director Tamara Rojo, Youth Ballet Classes for 11-16 year olds, Chair Based Class for those with limited mobility or space, Ballet Fit and Beginner’s Ballet Class. Seewww.ballet.org.uk/enb-at-home for more information.

-ENDS- 

English National Ballet is a National Portfolio Organisation supported by Arts Council England. 

 

Notes to Editors

About Malgorzata Dzierzon and Renaud Wiser
Dzierzon and Wiser have collaborated on a number of occasions including as Artistic Co-Directors of the 2019 Dance Journeys (Uncharted). Former dancers with classical and contemporary dance companies, both are members of New Movement Collective and co-direct Newcastle based company Fertile Ground. 

About English National Ballet 
English National Ballet has a long and distinguished history. Founded in 1950 as London Festival Ballet by the great English Dancers Alicia Markova and Anton Dolin, it has been at the forefront of ballet's growth and evolution ever since. 

English National Ballet brings world class ballet to the widest possible audience through performances across the UK and on eminent international stages including The Bolshoi Theatre and Palais Garnier; its distinguished orchestra, English National Ballet Philharmonic; and being a UK leader in creative learning and engagement practice, building innovative partnerships to deliver flagship programmes such as English National Ballet's Dance for Parkinson's.

Under the artistic directorship of Tamara Rojo CBE, English National Ballet has introduced ground-breaking new works to the Company's repertoire whilst continuing to honour the tradition of great classical ballet, gaining acclaim for artistic excellence and creativity. 2019 saw English National Ballet enter a new chapter in its history with a move into a purpose-built state-of-the-art home in East London which brings a renewed commitment to, and freedom for, creativity, ambition, and connection to more people, near and far, than ever before.
www.ballet.org.uk

About Arts Council England
Arts Council England is the national development body for arts and culture across England, working to enrich people's lives. We support a range of activities across the arts, museums and libraries - from theatre to visual art, reading to dance, music to literature, and crafts to collections. Great art and culture inspires us, brings us together and teaches us about ourselves and the world around us. In short, it makes life better. Between 2018 and 2022, we will invest £1.45 billion of public money from government and an estimated £860 million from the National Lottery to help create these experiences for as many people as possible across the country.
www.artscouncil.org.uk 

Hello MumofOlivia and welcome to the Forum!

Having read your first post you should read this thread to see that certain topics are out of bounds:

8 hours ago, Tango Dancer said:

I've had 2 different teachers appear to use an album entitled "Pop Hits for Ballet vol 2" by Nate Fifield which I quite like as it amuses me to try and work out what the tune is supposed to be. My third teacher uses something involving more show tunes and I can recognise those more easily.  

 

Nathan Fifield was the assistant music director at Northern Ballet for several years and often used to play for class on a Saturday when Friends were watching.  He was fabulous and we used to have a competition amongst ourselves to "Name that tune".  We used to joke with him about producing a playlist for us!

Dreadfully sad news from Sheffield that the Lyceum and studio theatres will not be reopening until Spring 2021.  The Crucible will be reopened in a C-19-safe way in the Autumn.  Redundancy talks have started.

This effectively means that only the Leeds Playhouse week and a half of NB's Gatsby is currently left of the Autumn tour.  As that is near the beginning of September I am doubtful that will go ahead.

https://www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk/a-message-from-dan-our-chief-executive?fbclid=IwAR3M-qDwlX9tHUnyaUnaFJi2FUO6tsxelE75gWsvV-5uwZtl3D7P8ZqZlhU