• The Dance Performance of the Year - Advocate.com

    Advocate.com
    The Dance Performance of the Year
    Advocate.com
    While there have been out LGBTQ contestants and choreographers on Fox's So You Think You Can Dance over the years, the reality show has generally remained quiet on the topic — until now. Perhaps in response to the Trump administration's increasingly ...
  • Tamara Rojo: ‘I want ballet to be for and about everybody’

    The artistic director of the English National Ballet on dance in the #MeToo age, embracing people’s flaws and the thing she misses most on tourBorn in Quebec and raised in Spain, London-based Tamara Rojo, 44, is the artistic director of English National Ballet, as well as lead principal dancer. She was previously a principal with the Royal Ballet. She was made a CBE in the 2016 New Year honours list.Your and choreographer Akram Khan’s recent version of Giselle reimagined her as a ref
  • Layla and Majnun review – to hell and Baku with Mark Morris

    Sadler’s Wells, London
    Morris’s dancers are consigned to margins as the Silkroad Ensemble and two of Azerbaijan’s greatest singers conjure lovelorn drama centre stageLayla and Majnun, a 12th-century Persian narrative poem based on the story of a poet and the girl he loves and loses, was described by Lord Byron as “the Romeo and Juliet of the east”. In 1908, an opera telling the story of Layla and Majnun had its premiere in Baku, Azerbaijan, and in 2007 this work was

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