Dance & ballet news

• Paul Taylor obituary

  02-09-2018 17:28
  Influential American dancer regarded as one of the great contemporary choreographersPaul Taylor, who has died aged 88, was one of America’s greatest modern dancers and choreographers. He captivated audiences with his athletic and lyrical performances between 1954 and 1974, and through early works such as Three Epitaphs (1956), Junction (1960), Aureole (1962), Scudorama (1963) and Orbs (1966), he proved that the concept of “choreographic style” could embrace a tantalisingly dive
  
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• Contact Young Company and Hetain Patel: Oh Man review – masculinity bites

  02-09-2018 14:28
  Undisclosed location, SalfordYoung performers deliver snapshots capturing the challenges and impacts of male behaviour in a fresh and brashly comic devised showThe venue for Oh Man – an hour-long performance riffing on modern masculinity devised by Hetain Patel with the youth company of Manchester’s Contact theatre – is strictly secret, but when we arrive at an old car garage I think: of course! Patel, a genre-straddling, Bolton-born artist has made several works about and with
  
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• Wysing Polyphonic review – explosions in the sonic inventing shed

  02-09-2018 13:50
  Wysing Arts Centre, CambridgeshireMoor Mother and Paul Purgas curate an inspirational gathering where electronic artists, dancers and poets freely test the boundaries of expression‘Noises of spoons!” I’m in an octagonal wooden structure that’s half Grand Designs man-shed, half denouement to a slasher movie, in a field in the Cambridgeshire countryside. Elaine Mitchener is kicking things off at Wysing Polyphonic, delivering scat poetry that’s as light, intricate and
  
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• Wysing Polyphonic review – daring explosions in the sonic inventing shed

  02-09-2018 13:50
  Wysing Arts Centre, CambridgeshireMoor Mother curates an inspirational gathering where electronic artists, dancers and poets freely test the boundaries of expression‘Noises of spoons!” I’m in an octagonal wooden structure that’s half Grand Designs man-shed, half denouement to a slasher movie, in a field in the Cambridgeshire countryside. Elaine Mitchener is kicking things off at Wysing Polyphonic, delivering scat poetry that’s as light, intricate and unmappable as r
  
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• Peter Frame, Ballet Dancer and Instructor, Dies at 61

  02-09-2018 03:17 via nytimes.com
  Mr. Frame was a member of the New York City Ballet for 14 years. He was known for resurrecting a rare piece of George Balanchine choreography as a soloist in 1986.
  
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