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Volume 5, Number 30 - July 30, 2007

this week's reviews

“Making Television Dance”/The Ballet Boyz/La Scala
by John Percival

Tap City’s Tap/Forward
"Savion Glover’s Invitation to a Dancer”

by Sali Ann Kriegsman

Letters and Commentary

London Letter
Royal Ballet, Birmingham Royal and English National Ballets
announce their seasons

by John Percival

San Francisco Letter 26
San Francisco Ballet: Programs 6 and 7

by Rita Felciano

Letter from London
Henri Oguike Dance Company, Richard Alston Dance Company

by John Percival

Letter from Copenhagen
Nikolaj Hübbe to take over his parent company

by Eva Kistrup

did you miss any of these?


Kabuki in Contemporary Form
"Hokaibo" at the Lincoln Center Festival

by Gay Morris

Nederlands Dance Theater II at the Pillow
by Susan Reiter

Letter from the Montpellier Dance Festival
by Rita Felciano

Letter from the XIV Annual International Contemporary Dance Conference & Performance Festival of the Silesian Dance Theater
in Bytom, Poland

by George Jackson

"Jewels" in Saratoga
by Tom Phillips

Dancers of the Royal Danish Ballet at the Pillow
by Susan Reiter

 



“Making Television Dance”/The Ballet Boyz/La Scala
by John Percival

The most enjoyable series of performances I have seen for quite a time was the British Film Institute's presentation entitled Making Television Dance. As long ago as the 1930s BBC television was offering its then modest audiences programmes by the Vic-Wells Ballet and specially made works by Antony Tudor which proved highly popular. Two decades on, when Margaret Dale decided (at only about thirty!) that her days as a dancer with Sadler's Wells Ballet were numbered, she first turned briefly to choreography with just one ballet that flopped, then began as an assistant on television programmes, saw the opportunities for developing the medium, and joined the BBC in 1954. READ MORE


Tap City’s Tap/Forward
"Savion Glover’s Invitation to a Dancer”

by Sali Ann Kriegsman

The rhythmic and technical virtuosity of contemporary tap dancers — women and men — requires that we be as attentive and intelligent as they are.  In other words, sharpen your senses and listen up!

The unfettered, audacious rhythmic freedom of American’s music, jazz,  is matched by the phenomenal rhythmic invention and improvisational flights of contemporary tap. 

There was plenty to challenge, delight, educate and transport audiences in New York in mid-July, continuing proofs that rhythm tap dancing is having a glorious, historic renaissance and those who are missing it are going to be  very sorry. READ MORE



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