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"The Devil Ties My Tongue" by Amy Seiwert performed for the SKETCH Series, 2013. Photo by David DeSilva. Courtesy of Amy Seiwert's Imagery
DDP Talks To… the English National Ballet’s Associate Choreographer and First Artist Stina Quagebeur. Stina is one of the leading emerging choreographers in the field of ballet, and we are so thrilled to share this hugely accomplished woman’s voice in our interview series!
Dance Data Project® (DDP) today announces the 2020 Dance Festival Gender Equity Report, a report that examines the gender distribution of programming and leadership among 2020 festivals and includes a comparative analysis of 2019 and 2020 findings.
By Sean Neumann
21 January 2020
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The “Dance Across America” video was the idea of Julia McDonald, another Emmy Award-winning choreographer dubbed a “Hollywood Dance Super-Agent.”
Ortega says Stranger Things editor Brad Tobler and producer Kelly Parker, another pair of Emmy winners, were part of the project as was choreographer Paul Becker and producer Truman Alfaro.
The team combed over submissions and put together the three-minute video in less than two weeks, Ortega says, after he was invited to head the project just before the new year. The video, set to Martha & The Vandellas’ song “Dancing in the Streets,” features 275 everyday Americans dancing in 30 states and territories.
Ortega says the video ranks up there with his other career milestones, including the Emmys he has won for his work choreographing the 1996 and 2002 Olympic ceremonies, Super Bowls, films like Dirty Dancing and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and more.
“Dance is a language without words,” he says. “It’s a language that all of us understand. A dancer can express so much: pain, happiness, hope, and despair. So many things.”
Most of all, Ortega says, dance “carries the story forward.”
That was undoubtedly the theme at the Capitol Wednesday, where the nation turned to its next chapter and Biden, its new president, urged the country to move past ideological differences and come together.
Stina Quagebeur leading a Nora rehearsal with Crystal Costa (c) Ian Gavan.