Entries by dancedata
Washington Post: Opinion: Innovation made ‘The Nutcracker’ a Christmas classic. A pandemic won’t stop it
By Melissa R. Klapper 21 December 2020 Melissa R. Klapper is a professor at Rowan University and author of “Ballet Class: An American History.” Covid-19 has cost us cherished holiday […]
NYU: The Center for Ballet and the Arts and National Sawdust Collaborate to Support Women Composers and Choreographers
The Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation has created a new program between the Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU and National Sawdust to foster collaboration between women composers and choreographers with the aim of creating new works in the virtual medium.
Harper’s Bazaar: How Three Women Produced a Ballet Gala in a Pandemic
By Erica Gonzalez 17 December 2020 Ballerina Melanie Hamrick wanted to do something to help the dance community months into a pandemic that put many of them out of work. […]
Forbes: World-Class Ballerina Misty Copeland And TIME’S UP CEO Tina Tchen Discuss Equity And Breaking Barriers
By Monica Haider 17 December 2020 Two remarkably powerful women, Tina Tchen, President and CEO of TIME’S UP Now and TIME’S UP Foundation, and Misty Copeland, Principal Dancer at American […]
Mass Review: The Offending Classic
What makes a ballet a classic? Is it earning a permanent place in the history books, or is it being worthy of the Herculean investment of hours in the studio, the tireless work of the dancers and coaches, the resources, media and marketing machine required to bring it to life, or both? Who decides, and more importantly, what goes into that calculus?
Hacks for Virtual Holiday Rituals: Nutcracker Goes Digital
For this week’s Hacks Newsletter, [Alyssa Rapp’s Hacks the Newsletter] gains ABT Executive Superstar Kara Medoff Barnett’s leadership hacks, about what’s it’s been like to lead America’s national ballet company through this pandemic – and to what she looks forward to in 2021.
Prestige: Misty Copeland on Finding a Higher Purpose in Ballet
By Charlene Co 15 December 2020 Under the unforgiving, highly competitive and elitist spotlight of classical ballet, Misty Copeland shines. Copeland, who in 2015 became the first African-American promoted to principal dancer […]
