BBC News: Sir David Hare: Society shifting women’s role in film and theatre
As film and theater change, so should dance.
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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.
Broadway World: Ergo Arts Theatre Announces 2nd Annual ERGO PINK FEST
A theater festival in Toronto conceived and hosted by Ergo Arts Theatre (EAT) gives voice to female and non-binary identified playwrights.
Daily Nexus Article, “The Joffrey Presents Not Your Grandma’s Ballet” Covers #MeToo Discussion
Hannah Jackson reviews the Joffrey Ballet’s performance at UCSB.
Chicago Sun-Times: La Femme Dance Festival celebrates black choreographers in ‘dancestry’ program
The Chicago Sun-Times caught up with all five Femme Festival choreographers last week. Here’s what they had to say about their work, history, identity and what it means to claim your own space in the world.
WFPL: Louisville Ballet Announces 2019-2020 ‘Season Of Imagination’
The company with a female resident choreographer announces its upcoming season.
Wall Street Journal: What Women Artists Knew About Work
The lives of figures like Harriet Beecher Stowe and Helen Frankenthaler hold lessons for everyone about focus and perseverance
Long Hard Road Ahead According to The Conversation: Gender equity—the way things are going, we won’t reach true parity until the 22nd century
“Companies have at their disposal a range of specific actions they could take that would hasten the move toward gender equity in pay and progression. Leadership, female representation on boards and accountability are among them.”
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2019-03-gender-equitythe-wont-true-parity.html#jCp
Dance Magazine: Sergei Polunin, Unapologetic About His Social Media Spiral, Is Somehow Still Getting High-Profile Dance Jobs
When it comes to inappropriate comments about female and male roles in dance and acceptance of LGBTQ artists, Polunin has said: “Everybody agrees with me. In the ballet world, everyone thinks that.”
Pointe Magazine: Chelsy Meiss on Being the First Woman to Dance the Mad Hatter in Wheeldon’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”
Christopher Wheeldon’s Alice in Wonderland puts a woman in the tap-based role of Mad Hatter.
