January 2004
News: New Awards for Dance
Royal Ballet star Deborah Bull and dancer/choreographer Akram Khan joined John Ashford, Theatre Director of The Place, to launch plans for a new £250,000 choreography award scheme, THE PLACE PRIZE, sponsored by… Continue Reading
News: Ann Miller
Ann Miller became “one of the most exciting and exuberant dancers in Hollywood, sharing the screen with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly and appearing in a string of MGM musicals in the Forties and Fifties, inc… Continue Reading
News: South Bank Awards
The eighth annual South Bank Show Awards took place on Friday 23rd January. There are twelve categories from opera to popular music, literature to cinema and visual arts. The winner of the Dance Award was Russel… Continue Reading
News: Flamenco
The debate goes on between the value of flamenco with its gypsy heritage, created in Andalusia 2 or more centuries ago, and new flamenco fusing the old songs with modern influences. Talking to flamenco performer… Continue Reading
News: Ballet Fitness
Ballet classes and floor barre keeps you toned, supple and strong. Sarah Jessica Parker, Kylie Minogue and the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team all include ballet as part of their regular exercise routines.Abig… Continue Reading
News: 1st time ballet
Having promised 27 previous girlfriends that he would take them to the ballet, Rod Liddell finally went for the first time and describes what he found.Times, 24 Jan.04 Continue Reading
News: Monica Mason
talks to Alastair Macaulay about her role as Artistic Director of the Royal Ballet and her history with the company. FT, 19 Jan.04 Continue Reading
News: Wim Vandekeybus
brings his dance company Ultima Vez to Sadler’s Wells in February. Vandekeybus has used film throughout his career; in Blush “The dancers dive from the stage, reappearing on screen in sequences filme… Continue Reading
News: Jean Luc Choplin to join Châtelet Theatre in 2006
Jean-Luc Choplin to join Châtelet Theatre, Paris, in 2006 Jean-Luc Choplin, the current Chief Executive of Sadler’s Wells is to become Director of the Châtelet Theatre in Paris in 2006. Denise Kingsmill… Continue Reading
News: Olivier Awards 2004
The winners of the 2004 Laurence Olivier Awards were announced on Sunday 22nd February. BEST NEW DANCE PRODUCTION Broken Fall, a George Piper Dances commission in association with The Royal Ballet at the Royal O… Continue Reading
News: John Cage
- including choreographers Merce Cunningham and Siobhan Davies and the Chief Executive of Sadler’s Wells, *Jean-Luc Choplin. Guardian, 16 Jan Continue Reading
News: Dance UK Industry Award
The first Dance UK Industry Award was presented as part of the Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards at Sadlers Wells on 13 January to Theresa Beattie, Director of Artist Development at The Place. The Dan… Continue Reading
News: Come Dancing comes back
Bruce Forsyth is rumoured to be presenting the ballroom dancing show when it returns to BBC1 later this year. “But perhaps the show’s producers should be talking to the young people who are taking up… Continue Reading
News: Clore Leadership Programme
- established in 2003 by the Clore Duffield Foundation as a new initiative to strengthen leadership across the arts, is now accepting applications for its first group of Fellowships to start in September 2004. … Continue Reading
News: Breakdance
“We are at the new PS2 BreakStation Dance Studio in Hoxton, east London, which has been set up to give stars like Jerome a dedicated space to practise and to run classes for locals and City types who fancy… Continue Reading