Zora: What It’s Like to Perform Ballet While Black
Though I loved to dance, I felt pressured to conform to a particular kind to make strides in the industry.
Entries by dancedata
Cage 541: Five questions with Eugene Ballet’s Toni Pimble
One of the most equitable companies over the past two years is led by – you guessed it – a woman. Read The Register-Guard’s feature on Toni Pimble of Eugene Ballet.
Harvard Business Review: The Trillion-Dollar Opportunity in Supporting Female Entrepreneurs
Women are worth a lot of money – more than we are given credit for.
SF Gate: Berkeley Ballet says dancers disinvited from performing in show after concerns about brownface
The Mariinsky Ballet went on a recent tour to the US, performing in D.C., New York City, and California, where the incident took place.
Stuff: Royal New Zealand Ballet partnering with foodbanks in time for Christmas
The company is taking themes from ballet and translating them to community engagement – giving back to the community that supports them.
Bloomberg: Sunday Strategist: How to Promote More Women
Another take on the McKinsey and Lean In annual study, Women in the Workplace.
DDP Reference in The New Yorker: Goings On About Town
In her recommendation for the “Goings On About Town” column for The New Yorker, dance writer Marina Harss made reference to DDP within the context of an upcoming Guggenheim Works & Process panel with Dance Lab New York and the Joyce Theater Foundation’s women of color Choreographic Lab alumni.
Meet the Company: Richmond Ballet
DDP shares our first ever Meet the Company feature. Hear about the success story that is the inaugural company, Richmond Ballet, from its founding artistic director Stoner Winslett and managing director Brett Bonda.
Broadway World: Photo Coverage: Take a Look Inside Dance Lab New York’s Collaboration With The Joyce Theater
Women supporting women: Joyce Theater’s lab cycle is supporting female choreographers of color in ballet.
Pointe Magazine: Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s Feminist Reading of “A Streetcar Named Desire” Comes to Nashville
Learn more about Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s A Streetcar Named Desire, which has its US premiere in Nashville this season.
