Wallpaper: Dior designs costumes for Philip Glass-composed ballet in Rome
Dior, inspired by women, crosses into ballet to design costumes in Rome.
Entries by dancedata
The Reviews Hub: Northern Ballet: Victoria – Sadler’s Wells, London
Cathy Marston’s full-length commission for the Northern Ballet is reviewed by Maryam Philpott.
New York Times: #SpeakingInDance Hats Off to Ballet Hispánico’s Women
Dancers at Ballet Hispanico are featured in The New York Times.
Stylist: Why the English National Ballet’s new season is the most feminist ballet yet
English National Ballet is one of the leading companies abroad promoting women through its repertoire.
Broadway World: Choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa Receives Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award
Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, an advocate for and woman choreographer herself, has been honored with the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award.
New York Times: Dance Luminaries Weigh in on the Conspicuous Absence of Female Choreographers
Written by Gia Kourlas for The New York Times on June 23rd, 2016, this article highlights what leaders in the community thought of the inequity in ballet at the time. […]
The Conversation: A half-century before the hashtag, artists were on the front lines of #MeToo
Two artists, Suzanne Lacy and Leslie Labowitz produced at least seven large-scale and complex public performances in Los Angeles that helped redefine rape as a crime of aggression and act of female subjugation in 1977, years before the #MeToo movement.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Florentine Opera’s new leader says every group should be thinking about #MeToo issues
How is the Florentine Opera recovering from its #MeToo scandal?
BBC News: Sir David Hare: Society shifting women’s role in film and theatre
As film and theater change, so should dance.
If Theater Can Change, So Can Ballet: New York Times – ‘Doors Swing Open for Women and People of Color at Top Ranks of American Theater’
White male artistic directors in theater are slowly becoming less and less represented in theater companies – and women are replacing them.
