Dance & ballet news

• Letter: Geraldine Stephenson obituary

  14-03-2018 17:20
  It was 1971 when Geraldine Stephenson was retained as dance and movement consultant on the BBC’s TV series of Dennis Potter’s Casanova. As the director, I was setting up a studio reconstruction of a Vivaldi concert with an audience of some 50 extras magnificently clothed and coiffed for the period.But something was wrong. I consulted Geraldine. “It’s the men,” she said. “They are all sitting with legs crossed or akimbo when the style of the time was to present
  
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• Madonna to direct movie based on life of ballerina Michaela DePrince

  14-03-2018 13:57
  MGM announces the singer will direct Taking Flight, the story of DePrince’s journey from war orphan in Sierra Leone to world-class ballerina Madonna is to return to the movies after a seven-year absence to direct Taking Flight, a feature film based on the life of Michaela DePrince, a war orphan from Sierra Leone who became a leading ballerina. According to Deadline, Hollywood studio MGM has been developing the project since 2015 when it acquired the rights to DePrince’s memoir, co-wr
  
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• The ballerina who rescued 100,000 children with hip-hop

  14-03-2018 09:30
  When Vania Masías saw acrobats at traffic lights in the Peruvian capital she saw raw talent and a chance to transform their circumstancesVania Masías vividly remembers the first time she saw acrobats somersaulting at a traffic light on a visit to her home city in 2004.She was at the peak of an illustrious career as a ballet dancer in Europe – but before long, she would leave it all behind it to nurture the raw talent she found in the streets of the Peruvian capital.Related: T
  
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