Ian Macmillan

A little more here: Ten UK Ballet Schools Unite In Auditions For September 2021 Entry https://www.broadwayworld.com/uk-regional/article/Ten-UK-Ballet-Schools-Unite-In-Auditions-For-September-2021-Entry-20200710

Friday 10 July, 2020 Feature – The Dance on Camera Festival, When Dance Is Only on Camera: Brian Seibert, NY Times Associated Interview – Liz Wolff: Ivan Talijancic, BR 3/3 Feature - Looking ahead to a return to dance classes: David Mead, SeeingDance News – Further lockdown easing for theatres and dance venues: BBC News - Updated Government Guidance for Performing Arts: Here Streaming Reviews: Mariinsky Ballet, Giselle (Vishneva, 2016): Oksana Khadarina, Fjord Review World Ballet School Day & A Screen Apart: Vera Liber, BTG Streaming News - 11 Biographical Dance Documentaries: Staff, Playbill Interview - Dancing for change: Trans ballet dancer Sophie Rebecca: Luiz DeBarros, Mamba Online Brooklyn Rail for July and August: Can we create lasting mutual aid structures? Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone, BR 1/3 Review - The Bon Iver Race Dance: Adlan Jackson, BR 2/3

Thursday 9 July, 2020 Feature - 'The thirst and drive is there': a leap forward for British dance schools: Lydsey Winship, Guardian Streaming Review – Dutch National Ballet, 8 New Works: Graham Watts, DanceTabs Streaming News: World-class ballet dancers perform Swan Lake in their bathtubs: |Zoe Paskett, Evening Standard (and elsewhere) Take online ballet classes with the Australian Ballet: Nicola Dowse, TimeOut Melbourne

See also the Lockdown thread in News .... and tomorrow's Links. And hasn't this been around for some weeks already? I'm sure I've been aware of the title for some time but it appears to have gained some media traction in the past 24 hours.

A masterpiece of film editing, I must say!

Wednesday 8 July, 2020 Streaming Reviews – Royal Ballet, Woolf Works (2017): Deborah Weiss, DanceTabs Dancing at Dusk/Pina Bausch & Africa Dancers, Rite of Spring: Mark Monahan, Telegraph Théâtre du Châtelet, Après, Demain: Lyndsey Winship, The Guardian Manch UK/South Asian Dance, 34 Performances: Seeing Dance Streaming News – School of American Ballet’s Gutsy Kids: Gia Kourlas, NY Times Shobana Jeyasingh Dance, More SJD Shorts: Teresa Guerreiro, Culture Whisper Meanwhile elsewhere: Gallery - Lagos Leap: inside a ballet school in Nigeria's suburbs: AFP, via The Guardian Aerial ballet: How airplanes fill up with fuel mid-air: Howard Slutsken, CNN

Tuesday 7 July, 2020 News – Comment on the UK “Arts bailout”: Richard Morrison, The Times Ivan Hewett, Telegraph Editorial, Guardian Brian Ferguson, Scotsman on the Scottish angle Feature – Hope Boykin teaches Alvin Ailey’s Revelations: Janice Berman, SF Classical Voice News - West Australian Ballet’s first steps back to the stage: Valerie Lawson, Dancelines Streaming Review – Anna Sokolow & Dancers, Rooftop Rooms: Deborah Jowitt, Arts Journal/DanceBeat Interview – Sander Blommaert & his Instagram Classes: Vikki Jane Vile, BWW UK

Monday 6 July, 2020 News – UK Government pledges £1.57 Bn for Arts & Heritage: David Sanderson, The Times Mark Brown, Guardian George Parker & Others, Financial Times Will Gompertz, BBC News (and elsewhere) News - Pointe at the kitchen counter and more: How ballet dancers are adapting: Sarah Ewall-Wice, CBS News

Sunday 5 July, 2020 Obituary – Nikolai Fadeyechev, Bolshoi Dancer: Anna Kisselgoff, NY TImes Streaming Reviews: English National Ballet, Manon (2018): Jann Parry, DanceTabs Dancing at Dusk: Pina Bausch/African Dancers, Rite of Spring: Jenny Gilbert, Arts Desk Stuttgart Ballet, Taiyō to Tsuki: David Mead, SeeingDance Seven dances, one Anthem, Performances set on Leonard Cohen’s Anthem: Globe and Mail

From the New York Times and tomorrow's Links: Nikolai Fadeyechev, Elegant Bolshoi Dancer, Is Dead at 87 - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/04/arts/dance/nikolai-fadeyechev-dead.html

The Teatro Real in Madrid has started live performances of La Traviata. Interesting photo of the stage and pit arrangements: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/b1c94984-bc9f-11ea-84a6-a03a9956ea0a?shareToken=dd9637b7a4dfa0a732c1215522dfe8bf Edited to add: Further to Bruce's quotations from The Stage, I see that it is in trouble itself: https://twitter.com/TheStage/status/1278977276646916096?s=20

Saturday 27 June, 2020 Streaming Reviews: - Aterballeto, 1 Meter Closer, The Other Side: Penelope Ford, Fjord Review - Australian Dance Theatre, HELD: Michelle Potter, .... on dancing Streaming News: - Shobana Jeyasingh Dance, SJD Shorts: Teresa Guerreiro, Culture Whisper - Smuin Ballet, Carmina Burana: Staff, BWW San Francisco

Friday 26 June, 2020 Feature – Why 2020 was supposed to be a celebratory year for Northern Ballet: Nick Ahad, Yorkshire Post News – UK Culture Secretary unveils roadmap to reopening theatres: Zoe Paskett, Evening Standard (and elsewhere) Streaming Reviews: - English National Ballet, Song of the Earth: Jann Parry, DanceTabs - Stuttgart Ballet, Lady of the Camellias: Robert Tanitch, BTG Streaming News: - English National Ballet, La Syphide, Cinderella: Teresa Guerreiro, Culture Whisper - Sadler’s Wells, Dance Film Season: Lorna Irvine, Fjord Review - Royal Ballet, Romeo and Juliet: Beyond Words: Roisin O’Brien, Fjord Review - Ballet Central, Centrally Connected Performs: Staff, BWW Dance

Thursday 25 June, 2020 News – Tamara Rojo: “No Christmas shows without State help”: Reuters via Yahoo News Streaming Reviews: - Live from Covent Garden/2: David Nice, Arts Desk - Live from Covent Garden (1 & 2)/Danceworks: Sara Veale, Spectator - Phoenix Dance Theatre, Windrush: Movement of the People: David Cunningham, BTG - Sydney Dance Company, Cuatro: Jill Sykes, Sydney Morning Herald Streaming News: - Documentary – A Hymn for Alvin Ailey: Dan Meyer, Playbill

Not a problem - but I've been aware for some time that when I transfer a morning's Links from my working Word doc to the Forum, the day and date show in a shade of blue. Month and Year are in black. No idea at all why this should be happening, given that all of the text comes from the same source. Does anyone else see this interesting occurrence? Or is it just a curiosity in my computer?

Wednesday 24 June, 2020 Interview – NYCB’s Silas Farley, retiring from ballet at 26. Dancing Can Get You Only So Far: Gia Kourlas, NY Times Feature – Sun, sand, human sacrifice: Rite of Spring danced on a beach as the world shut down: Lyndsey Winship, Guardian Streaming Reviews: - Scottish Ballet, Rite of Spring, The Fairy’s Kiss: Deborah Weiss, DanceTabs - Shobana Jeyasingh, TooMortal: David Mead, SeeingDance Streaming News: - Seattle Dance Collective, Continuum: Bridging the Distance: Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times

Barcelona showing the way ahead? https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2020-06-23/barcelona-liceu-theater-reopens-plants

Tuesday 23 June, 2020 Obituaries – Sally Banes, Dance Critic & Historian: Gia Kourlas, NY Times Marcia B Siegel, Arts Fuse News – Grants for new work from Bay Area Dance Groups: Paul Kotapish, SF Classical Voice Streaming Reviews: - Live from Covent Garden (20 June): Jann Parry, DanceTabs Roy Westbrook, Bachtrack - Mariinsky Ballet, The Four Seasons: Oksana Khadarina, Fjord Review - LaGuardia High School, Graduation Concert: David Mead, SeeingDance - Dance movies, the ultimate comfort-watch: Nadine von Cohen, Guardian Streaming News: - Luca Silvestrini/Protein Dance, Anniversary Season: Teresa Guerreiro, Culture Whisper

Monday 22 June, 2020 Features – How are Performing Arts ever to get out of the present stasis? Focused on orchestral music, but the issues for Dance are surely similar: - Interview with Sir Simon Rattle: Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times - Fiona Maddocks, Guardian ----- the embedded The Sixteen video, John Sheppard’s Libera Nos, Is surely a prayer for our times. An open letter to the Ballet Community: Sara Komatsu, The Harvard Crimson ---- and as seen in Scotland: Carlos Alba, The Times Streaming Reviews – Live from Covent Garden: - Richard Morrison, The Times - Ivan Hewett, Telegraph - Jim Pritchard/John O’Dwyer, Seen and Heard Streaming News: - Protein Dance, LOL: Lorna Irvine, Fjord Review - Queer Butoh, online this year: Cassidy George, NY TImes

Sunday 21 June, 2020 Feature – Francesca Hayward, Cesar Corrales and others, Performing as couples: Sarah Crompton, Sunday Times Feature – Phil Chan’s campaign to end use of Yellowface: Juan Michael Porter II, NY Observer Streaming News: - Shobana Jeyasingh, Too Mortal: Vera Liber, BTG

Janite: Seems you may not be alone. I've no suggestions myself but I've just seen that our Founding Father, Bruce Marriott, who now runs DanceTabs, has reported issues with the setup. And he's a chap who knows his way in the tech area:

At the current rate of signing, the Petition should reach 50, 000 by 9.30 this morning.

Saturday 13 June, 2020 Obituary - Tyrone Proctor, dance pioneer of 1970s waacking: Makeda Easter, LA Times Feature – Francesca Hayward - on racism and identity: Ella Alexander, Harper's Bazaar Feature – Ballet in the time of a plague: Elyse Durham, America News – A Model for the ‘Dance World We Want’: Siobhan Burke, NY Times News – Paris Opera “On its knees”: Henry Samuel, Telegraph Streaming News/Reviews: - Dutch National Ballet, Safe Distance Ballet: Staff, BWW Dance - Royal Ballet, Our House to Your House: Annabel Sampson, Tatler Teresa Guerreiro, Culture Whisper - BBC Danceworks, Ballet, Contemporary, Flamenco & Latin: Roisin O’Brien, SeeingDance - Davina Givan & Errol White, Worn: Kelly Apter, The Scotsman - The Place/Avant Garde Dance, Fagin’s Twist: Maryam Philpott, Reviews Hub - Online competition for dance students aims to 'lift their spirits': Kathryn Greenaway, Montreal Gazette

With The Cellist, each time at around 60 minutes in, a message saying something like "Performance is about to pause. Continue watching?" came up. A quick push on 'OK' on the remote control removed it and there was no pause.

Friday 12 June, 2020 Out in Lockdown: Feature - How Wayne McGregor prepared the Royal Ballet’s first socially distanced performance: Debra Craine, The Times Feature - Francesca Hayward & Colleagues, Where We Are: Chris Wiegand, Guardian Streaming Reviews: - Stuttgart Ballet, Concerto for Flute and Harp: David Mead, SeeingDance - Various Companies, Street Solos & a Flock of Swans: Lyndsey Winship, Guardian