Young men perform daring aerial dances in a crowded New York City subway car. Read the story here: http://nyti.ms/112IdFj
Monthly Archives: May 2013
Ballettschule für das Opernhaus Zürich
Young talents on the big stage: on 8 June, students of the Ballet School of the Opernhaus Zürich show their skills. Under the leadership of Doris Catana Berio Zoff, they present an equally entertaining and challenging program. Get tickets exclusively at the box office.
Ballerina or Flowerina?
Have you seen this “perfectly timed” photo by Tatiana Mikhina?
Further information:
http://500px.com/TatianaMikhina
Staatsballett Berlin – Masse @ Berghain
Shiro Takatani – Chroma
Shiro Takatani – CHROMA – creation 2012.
Rehearsals filmed at Biwako Hall Shiga (Japan) on 14 January 2012.
Performers: Misako Yabuuchi, Yuko Hirai, Olivier Balzarini, Alfred Birnbaum
Music: Simon Fisher Turner, Takuya Minami, Marihiko Hara
Interview with John Neumeier
A wonderful interview with the director of the Hamburg Ballett where he reveals that he actually choreographed all the Mahler symphonies, not only the third!
James Dean in ballet class
James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 – September 30, 1955) was an American actor. He is a cultural icon of teenage disillusionment, as expressed in the title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause (1955), in which he starred as troubled Los Angeles teenager Jim Stark. The other two roles that defined his stardom were as loner Cal Trask in East of Eden (1955), and as the surly ranch hand, Jett Rink, in Giant (1956). Dean’s enduring fame and popularity rests on his performances in only these three films, all leading roles. His premature death in a car crash cemented his legendary status. Dean was the first actor to receive a posthumous Academy Award nomination for Best Actor and remains the only actor to have had two posthumous acting nominations. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Dean the 18th best male movie star on their AFI’s 100 Years…100 Stars list.
John Cage & Merce Cunningham – Variations V (1965)
John Cage made «Variations V» in 1965 for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. He and David Tudor settled on two systems for the sound to be affected by movement. For the first, Billy Klüver and his colleagues set up a system of directional photocells aimed at the stage lights, so that the dancers triggered sounds as they cut the light beams with their movements. A second system used a series of antennas. When a dancer came within four feet of an antenna a sound would result. Ten photocells were wired to activate tape-recorders and short-wave radios. Cecil Coker designed a control circuit, which was built by assistant Witt Wittnebert. Film footage by Stan VanDerBeek and Nam June Paik’s manipulated television images were projected on screens behind the dancers. The score was created by flipping coins to determine each element and consisted of thirty-five «remarks» outlining the structure, components, and methodology. The specific sound score would change at each performance as it was created by radio antennas responding to the dancers’ movements. In this photograph «Variations V» is performed for a television taping session in Hamburg. The photocells were located at the base of the five-foot antennas placed around the stage. Cage, Tudor, and Gordon Mumma operate equipment to modify and determine the final sounds. The project was also presented at the Philharmonic Hall in New York, 1965. [Source]
http://www.ubu.com/film/cage_variations5.html
