Ian Macmillan

Monday 11 May, 2020 An issue confronting all theatres: - Royal Albert Hall faces closure over social distancing: Craig Simpson, Telegraph - And what about staff and performers backstage? David Gray, Dance Enthusiast -------- Forum discussion here Meanwhile, in Lockdown - Streaming News & Reviews: - NYCB, Concerto DSCH: Michelle Potter, ... on dancing - Béjart Ballet Lausanne, Piaf: David Mead, SeeingDance - Ballet Black, Click!: Maryam Philpott, Reviews Hub - West Australian Ballet, Genesis – Short Works: Staff, Dance Australia - Bangarra Dance Theatre, Nandhu: Staff, Dance Australia - Bim Ajadi & others, Here/Not Here: Lyndsey Winship, Guardian - National Ballet of China, Creative Workshop: Chen Nan, Asia One

Sunday 10 May, 2020 Lockdown - Streaming Reviews: - NYCB, Rubies, Concerto DSCH: David Mead, Seeing Dance - Alexander Whitley, 8 Minutes: Maryam Philpott, Reviews Hub - The Place/Luca Silvestrini, Border Tales: Eve Newstead, Reviews Hub - Oleg Stepanov, I can’t be present due to travelling: Veronica Posth, SeeingDance

Saturday 2 May, 2020 Obituary – Helen McGehee, Dancer & Teacher: Anna Kisselgoff, NY Times Lockdown - Streaming News and Reviews: - Pacific Northwest Ballet announces video releases: Sondra Forsyth, BWW Dance - English National Ballet, Dust: Nicole Wilkie, Theatreview - West Australian Ballet, A moment a memory: West Australian

Friday 1 May, 2020 Out in Lockdown: - How some dancers are coping: Mark Monahan, Telegraph - Christopher Wheeldon in isolation: Telegraph Streaming News/Reviews: - English National Ballet, Dust: Vikki Jane Vile, BWW UK - New York City Ballet, Apollo: Caitlin Halmarick, Theatreview - Thoughts on Classes online: David Mead, SeeingDance - Netta Yerushalmy, Paramodernities: Siobhan Burke, NY Times (Scroll down) - Dance Diary, April: Michelle Potter, ... on dancing - Birmingham Royal Ballet Online – A Selection: Staff, BWW Dance - Virtual performances & Classes: Adrienne Jordan, Forbes Film – Bright Young Things: Penelope Ford, Fjord Review

Thursday 30 April, 2020 Feature – Ballet Conductors, dancers’ guardian angels: Sarah L Kaufman, Washington Post Out in Lockdown: Feature – Lauren Cuthbertson’s Quarantine Routine: Claudia Bauer, Pointe Magazine Streaming News/Reviews: - International Dance Online: Teresa Guerreiro, Culture Whisper - DanceXchange, Dance Insights Online: Staff, SeeingDance - Dancers using TikTok: Siobhan Burke, NY Times … and if you have time, you could even try this: A Deep Dive into Swan Lake: Critical Dance

And you'll find articles on the Duchess of Cornwall's doings as a Silver Swan and her appointment as Vice-Patron of the RAD all over the place online and on Twitter this morning - not just in The Times. See Links .....

Wednesday 29 April, 2020 Obituary – George Ogilvie, Director: Valerie Lawson, dancelines News Feature – Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, Silver Swan and Vice-Patron of the RAD: Caroline Davies, Guardian The Times RAD (and elsewhere) Meanwhile from Lockdown, some streaming News & Reviews: - Australian Ballet, Cinderella (Ratmansky): Deborah Jones, Limelight - A Good Vibes Dance for your hands: Brian Seibert, NY Times - Aerowaves’ Spring Forward Festival (online): Roisin O’Brien, SeeingDance - Chicago Companies Online: Mary Houlihan, Sun-Times (Scroll down) - Your global Online Class choice: Staff, Dance Australia

Tuesday 28 April, 2020 Feature – Female choreographers reimagining Story Ballets: Jen Peters, Dance Magazine Feature – Merritt Moore, the Quantum Ballerina: Susan Devaney, Vogue UK Meanwhile, in Lockdown: News – Pacific Northwest Ballet gets $3m in aid funds: Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times Feature – How Lauren Cuthbertson is coping: Staff, Evening Standard Streaming News/Reviews: - How to escape to the ballet online: Michael Crabb, Toronto Star - NYCB’s Digital Season – Week 3 announced: Ruthie Fierberg, Playbill - Alexander Ekman, Eskapist, Midsummer Night’s Dream: Lyndsey Winship, Guardian - The Place Online – a 6-week season: Teresa Guerreiro, Culture Whisper - Terpsichorean Treats on Celluloid: Janice Berman, SF Classical Voice

Monday 27 April, 2020 Feature – The Bolshoi in lockdown: Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post Streaming Review - Stuttgart Ballet, Mayerling: Jann Parry, DanceTabs

It's a busy day - for not only is IP being marked but apparently it's also World Pilots Day. Does anyone know who agrees these 'World' days? Could we declare a World BalletcoForum Day?

Sunday 26 April, 2020 Features: - Marcelino Sambé, Royal Ballet Principal: Sarah Crompton, Sunday Times - Xander Parish, Mariinsky Ballet: Gabriella Swerling, Telegraph Film/Streaming News & Reviews: - Royal Ballet, Romeo and Juliet – Beyond Words; Teresa Guerreiro, Culture Whisper - An Evening with Natalia Osipova: Maryam Philpott, Reviews Hub - New York City Ballet, Allegro Brillante, Rotunda: David Mead, SeeingDance - Béjart Ballet Lausanne, Digital Season: Staff, SeeingDance News – Miami dance community’s existential crisis: Sean Erwin, Miami Herald Essay – Dance thoughts on Anzac Day: Jennifer Shennan, ... on dancing Tech Feature – Reconfiguring a concert hall for dance: Chris Wheal, Saffron Hall

Truth stranger than fiction? The Guardian has a piece saying that a Priest (of sorts) may be behind this whole thing: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/24/revealed-leader-group-peddling-bleach-cure-lobbied-trump-coronavirus

Saturday 18 April, 2020 A lasting legacy – Billy Elliot, 20 years on: Louise Levene, Financial Times Film/Streaming News & Reviews: - Northern Ballet, 1984: Huw Oliver, Time Out - Matthew Bourne/New Adventures, Swan Lake, R&J, The Car Man: Teresa Guerreiro, Culture Whisper - Nederlands Dans Theater 1, The Statement: Roisin O’Brien, Fjord Review

Friday 17 April, 2020 Film/Streaming News & Reviews: - English National Ballet, Broken Wings, Dust: Zoe Paskett, Evening Standard - Wayne McGregor & Dancers, Winged Bull in the Elephant Case: Lyndsey Winship, Guardian - Russell Maliphant & Vangelis, The Thread: Teresa Guerreiro, Culture Whisper - Girl, a film by Lukas Dhont: David Mead, Seeing Dance Not-quite-a-book Review – Edwin Denby: his life, his Dance essays, his Poetry, By William Dunas; George Jackson, Danceviewtimes And when it’s over, an all-embracing tumble? Andrew Stephens, Brisbane Times

Thursday 16 April, 2020 Facing the pandemic: - Australian Dance Companies: Jill Sykes, Sydney Morning Herald - Ballet Hispanico, Con Brazos Abiertos: Matt Cooper, LA Times - Leicester Festival goes digital: David Mead, SeeingDance - Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, Chameleon: The Living Instalments: Siobhan Burke, NY Times Film/Streaming Reviews: - Paul Taylor & Company – An Artist and his Work: Deborah Jowitt, Arts Journal/DanceBeat - Hofesh Shechter, Clowns: Lyndsey Winship, Guardian

Until he died some 5 years ago, we had a Rudi - a large, ginger tabby - and so named by a lady who had worked with the original and who had known him well.

Wednesday 15 April, 2020 Facing the pandemic: - NYCB Principal Megan Fairchild back home: NY Times - Mark Morris takes to Zoom: Sarah L Kaufman, Washington Post - Australian Ballet’s dancers at home: Elissa Blake, Guardian Cat Woods, The Age - Facing the laptop to dance at home: Katie Law, Evening Standard and, oddly, also Zoe Paskett, Evening Standard - Alina Cojocaru in splendid isolation: Telegraph Film/Streaming Reviews: - Birmingham Royal Ballet, The Swan: Vikki Jane Vile, BWW UK - Béjart Ballet Lausanne, Syncope: David Mead, SeeingDance Catch-up Review – SystemsLAB, Mixed Bill, Deptford: Graham Watts, DanceTabs

With thanks to Ms Tamara Rojo on Twitter, this morning's Links contain an interesting and articulate challenge to all of the streaming activity that's going on. Whether you agree or not, it's worth some minutes of your time: https://medium.com/@nicholasberger/the-forgotten-art-of-assembly-a94e164edf0f

Tuesday 14 April, 2020 Facing the pandemic – West Australian Ballet: Denise Richardson, Dance Australia Film/Streaming Reviews: - Opera & Ballett Zürich, Messa da Requiem: Maggie Foyer, SeeingDance - New Movement Collective, Collapse, Casting Traces, Nest: Lyndsey Winship, Guardian HOWEVER, here’s a challenge to so much of what’s happening now: - The forgotten Art of Assembly – or why Theatre Makers should stop making: Nicholas Berger, Medium

Monday 13 April, 2020 Streaming Reviews: - Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker/Rosas, Rain: Maryam Philpott, Reviews Hub - Vienna State Ballet, Swan Lake (Nureyev): Jim Pritchard, Seen and Heard - Royal New Zealand Ballet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Greer Robertson, Theatreview - Motionhouse, Scattered, Broken, Charge: David Mead, SeeingDance News – YAGP 2020, Virtual Scholarship Program: Jerry Hochman, Critical Dance News – Australia Council announces $5M Arts Resilience Fund: Staff, Dance Australia

Sunday 12 April, 2020 Still coping with the viral shutdown ….. Feature – How West Coast companies are staying creative: Victoria Looseleaf, Fjord Review Interview – Rafael Bonachela, Sydney Dance Company Director: Claudia Lawson, Fjord Review Streaming Reviews: - BalletBoyz, DeLuxe: Rosie Kay Company, 5 Soldiers: Sara Veale, Spectator - Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker/Rosas, Rain: Michelle Potter, ... on dancing Book Review – Alles Tanzt/Everything Dances by Andrea Amort: George Jackson, Danceviewtimes

.... and Nadia is Zenaida's sister.

Alison: Something of a blast from the past here. It was an excellent show - and giving some performances to the Company's junior dancers was something that's hardly widespread. Michael Burton was a contemporary at RBS of Yasmine Naghdi and Brandon Lawrence. He suffered an injury a year or so after this R&J performance that has terminated his very promising dance career.

Saturday 4 April, 2020 Documentary – Cunningham: Jann Parry, DanceTabs Streaming: Birmingham Royal Ballet: Teresa Guerreiro, Culture Whisper In Isolation: Lia Cirio, Boston Ballet: Alyssa Vaughn, Boston Magazine

Friday 3 April, 2020 Obituaries – Wilhelm (Willy) Burmann, Teacher: Abi Stafford, Dance Magazine Richard Chang/Reuters, NY Times Exhibition – X6 Dance Space (1976-80): Liberation Notes, London: Josephine Leask, DanceTabs News – Virus call: Police raid Bavarian State Ballet: Norman Lebrecht, Slipped Disc 1 Slipped Disc 2 Cancellations/Furloughs: - National Ballet of Canada: Susan K Robertson, Globe and Mail Debra Yeo, Toronto Star - Pacific Northwest Ballet: Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times - Joffrey and other Chicago companies: Kyle MacMillan, Chicago Sun-Times Streaming: - Birmingham Royal Ballet: Georgia Snow, The Stage - Various Sources: Teresa Guerreiro, Culture Whisper - Australian Ballet: Jo Litson, Limelight In Isolation: - RB’s Francesca Hayward: Telegraph - Constance Stamatiou, Ailey Dance Theater: NY Times - Northern Ballet’s Sean Bates & Mlindi Kulashe: Sharon Dale, Yorkshire Post Review – Aleksander Georgiev, Zhana Pencheva, Dario Barreto Damas, dragon aka PONY, Sofia: Penelope Ford, Fjord Review Dance Diary – Michelle Potter, March 2020, ... on dancing And when it’s all over: - Miami City Ballet: Lourdes Lopez looks forward: Orlando Taquechel, Miami Herald - Dimensions Dance Theatre of Miami: Sean Erwin, Miami Herald