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Let’s look at the key differences between stretching and pandiculation. Pandiculation is used extensively in Clinical Somatic Education to regain the brain’s control of tight painful mu…
Thanks to my nutritionist, I've started eating right. Now I desperately want to improve my negative body image. My friends tell me I look good, but I don't believe them. I obsess over every flaw and find class depressing. What should I do?—Crappy Body Image, Hoboken, NJThe best remedy is to shift yo...
Stephan Koplowitz, who has been producing site specific dances for over 30 years, shares a peek into his research and choreographic process.
Sometimes it feels like you can't go to a ballet company's website, check Facebook, or research a new ballet without coming across one of Ezra Hurwitz's stylish dance shorts. In just a couple of years, this former Miami City Ballet dancer has become the king of the dance teaser. Already, he's worked...
The only major issue for the company, now at the Joyce, is the choreography of its artistic director, Benjamin Millepied.
“There’s much else to admire about Mr. Millepied, who was a star dancer at New York City Ballet; he’s also made many ballets for that and other companies, as unalike as his Los Angeles dancers. His choice of Cunningham, Mr. Peck and Mr. Naharin shows his brilliantly hybrid taste.
“Perhaps there’s only one important thing wrong with Mr. Millepied. Alas, it’s a central thing: he choreographs, a lot, and never memorably...” -----
“If it wasn’t for his own creations, I’d call Mr. Millepied — enterprising, chic, unpredictable, modern — a very considerable force for good in the dance world. But he’s been making consistently unimportant dances for many years now. They’re what stop the L.A. Dance Project from becoming an important company.”
Ms. Shick, one of the dance world’s local treasures, presents a full-length work that explores character as much as coordination.
Sandra Paola, a Columbian American dance artist, descries how she became passionate about social justice, and discusses several of her dance programs.
“In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Sandra Paola Lopez Ramirez, a Columbian-American dance artist who reaches a host of populations through her improvisational dance practice. Her work is characterized by the exploration of relationship, gender, race, identity, awareness, kinesthetic listening and touch. Driven by her passion for social justice, she co-founded in2improv, an organization that empowers under-served communities through improvisation and performance. In this podcast, she descries how she became empowered to do socially conscientious work, and discusses several of the programs she has initiated.”
Martha Graham said that it takes 10 years to become a Graham dancer. But two years into her job with the Martha Graham Dance Company, Leslie Andrea Williams is well on her way, as luminous in the classics as she is in the troupe's more contemporary repertory. Whether mastering the sculptural specifi...
"She has nerves of steel. She has absolutely no compunction about standing on one leg for five minutes or taking on a speaking role." —Janet Eilber
Funding the Next Generation of Our Performing Arts Best
For Dance Magazine's 90th anniversary issue, we wanted to celebrate the movers, shakers and changemakers who are having the biggest impact on our field right now. There were so many to choose from! But with the help of dozens of writers, artists and administrators working in dance, the Dance Magazin...
Click through the links below to find out why they made our list.
Michelle Dorrance
Benjamin Millepied
Katherine E. Brown
Sydney Skybetter
Marc Bamuthi Joseph
Liz Lerman
Monica Bill Barnes
Justin Peck
Linda Shelton
Alastair Macaulay
Ohad Naharin
Gilda Squire
Christy Bolingbroke
The Actors Fund
International Association for Dance Medicine & Science
Michael M. Kaiser
Misty Copeland
Maria Kochetkova
Lil Buck
Ryan Heffington
Robert Battle
Pamela Tatge
Lourdes Lopez
Andy Blankenbuehler
Alexei Ratmansky
Amy Fitterer
Gina Gibney
The Harkness Foundation for Dance
Joe Lanteri
Larissa Saveliev
Glorya Kaufman
Nico Muhly
Max Richter
Joby Talbot
Cliff Brody claims he can barely execute a box step. But he's looking to raise more than $5 million for dance. The retired diplomat and businessman says, "I was struck by the extraordinary entrepreneurial efforts that these artists have: the creativity, the risks, including the physical risk. And th...
Cliff Brody claims he can barely execute a box step. But he's looking to raise more than $5 million for dance. The retired diplomat and businessman says, "I was struck by the extraordinary entrepreneurial efforts that these artists have: the creativity, the risks, including the physical risk. And the reality of learning that among the three areas of performing arts—music, theater and dance—dance is by far the least funded."
He founded the National Performing Arts Funding Exchange in 2016 to find more money for dance from nontraditional sources. NPAFE recently announced its three-year, $5,750,000 campaign that will funnel funds straight to performing artists throughout the United States. There will be no "middle man," Brody says.
Using the sports marketing model, where major brands advertise to capture the sporting fan market, NPAFE will target corporate underwriters for various dance organizations. Brody is convinced that companies will jump on the bandwagon to put their names behind dance and other performing arts groups. He cites statistics he culled over the past year: More than half of performing-arts ticket buyers said they would "almost always" or "frequently" purchase from a sponsoring corporation, while only about one-third (36 percent) of National Football League fans would purchase products based on sponsorship.
NPAFE offers an online clearinghouse of independent and small dance companies and individuals. Independent artists can enter their information, marketing materials and video on the website's Indie Performing Artists Gallery and Moving On Up Gallery to reach a larger audience—and potential funders.
Practitioners in the burgeoning field of drama therapy find that the creative outlet can offer a release to those in pain.
Misty Copeland in Valentino for Cosmopolitan August 2016. Photographed by Regan Cameron