Ian Macmillan

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

I also had another look tonight, presumably the last that will be possible until that DVD is issued next year. I have found it increasingly satisfying at each iteration.

Thursday 11 June, 2020 Interview – Marianela Nuñez: Deborah Weiss, DanceTabs Feature – When Dancers Have to Miss the Last Dance: Gia Kourlas, NY TImes Out in Lockdown: Opinion - Danger for the arts: action is needed now: Editorial, The Guardian --- A letter from Sir Simon Rattle and Sir Mark Elder: The Guardian Streaming Preview – The Place/Avant Garde Dance, Fagin’s Twist: Teresa Guerreiro, Culture Whisper

Wednesday 10 June, 2020 Report - Dancing Bodies That Proclaim: Black Lives Matter: Siobhan Burke, NY Times Film Feature – Jake Mangakahia, Icarus: Penelope Ford, Fjord Review Out in Lockdown: Recommendations – Alvin Ailey, SDC, Perm Ballet: Deborah Jones, Limelight Streaming Preview – Sara Mearns/Joshua Bergasse, Storm: Melissa Strong, BroadStreetReview Zoom Discussion - Oregon Ballet Theatre, Beautiful Decay: Dean Speer, Critical Dance Zoom Offer – Learn a dance from Revelations: Michael Zwiebach, SF Classical Voice

Tuesday 9 June, 2020 Feature – Alex Campbell, Royal Ballet Principal: Karen Van Ulzen, Dance Australia Streaming Reviews: - Mariinsky Ballet, The Fountain of Bakhchisarai: Oksana Khadarina, Fjord Review - Dance Theatre of Harlem, Creole Giselle: David Mead, SeeingDance Lockdown Previews: - Royal Ballet dancers + Mick Jagger, Ghost Light: Chris Wiegand, Guardian David Mead, SeeingDance (and elsewhere) - Dance Theatre of Harlem, On Demand Virtual Ballet Series; Teresa Guerreiro, Culture Whisper News – Chicago’s 2020 Dance for Life to be online: Miriam Di Nunzio, Chicago Sun-Times

Monday 8 June, 2020 Feature – Amici Dance Theatre’s 40th Anniversary during lock-down: Jann Parry, DanceTabs Streaming Review - Royal Ballet, The Cellist: Deborah Weiss, DanceTabs Lockdown News: - Scottish Ballet dancers coping with lockdown: Lucinda Cameron, GlasgowLive - The cult of Ryan Heffington, online dance guru: Emily Sargent, The Times

Sunday 7 June, 2020 Streaming Reviews: - Royal Ballet, Men at the Barre: Deborah Weiss, DanceTabs - Queensland Ballet, Online Season – Week 1: Michelle Potter, ... on dancing Streaming Preview – Sydney Symphony & Sydney Dance Company, Cuatro: Jo Litson, Limelight Documentary - Royal New Zealand Ballet, The Heart Dances – The Journey of The Piano – The Ballet: Madlyn Coupe, Fjord Review News – Choreographer faces backlash after George Floyd protest post: Makeda Easter, LA Times