March 8, 2007

Dance Blog Round-Up

- More on appointment of Alastair Macaulay to be new chief dance critic at New York Times: Rachel Howard writes about Apollinaire's "overheated reaction" and also writes about my post on this topic. Judith Flanders in Guardian Unlimited is amused by the "stirred tempers" in the US. Brendan McCarthy discusses "otherwordly discussion." And Apollinaire Scherr responds to Flanders.

- Natalia in Bellydance: Experiences wraps-up February blog carnival with the theme of "Through a dancer's eye" where dance bloggers write posts about this topic.

- Wheelchair Dancer writes two-part overview of recent symposium on dance and disability: Post about conference, Part I and Part II.

- Tony Schultz describes creation of a "choreographic interface" for generating different variations of Twyla Tharp’s "The Fugue," which was recently performed by students at Sarah Lawrence College. Screen shot of software interface included.

- Tonya Plank in Swan Lake Samba Girl writes post "You Made Me a Monster" about bringing a non-dancing friend to an "audience participation" dance event.

- La Planchadora shares her favorite Argentine Tango video of the week from YouTube.

- ShanMonster attends her first pole dancing class and includes pole dancing video that she can't quite do yet.

- Lorna of BellyLorna provides a multi-part history of belly dancing starting with Part 1.

- Flailbox links to preview of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, a half opera, half dance performance that is partly submerged in big fish tank at Sadler's Wells. Watch video clip.

- A Life Less Examined is thrilled that American Ballet Theatre is coming to Chicago.

- Miguelito in his DC Flamenco photo diary writes about his Tuesday evening experience seeing a Flamenco performance at Strathmore Music Center.

- Terpsichore Musings has a photo shoot - details in "Close-up."

- Soleilisme is in the zone during contemporary dance class.

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