Martha Graham Company / 100 Years

 

Ken Browar and Deborah Ory, Xin Ying Errand into the Maze 2025, Archival pigment photograph

Martha Graham Company: 100 Years

As the Martha Graham Dance Company marks its centennial, a new book by photographers Deborah Ory and Ken Browar offers a striking visual record of the company’s evolution. Martha Graham Company: 100 Years brings together contemporary portraits, newly staged images from iconic ballets, as well as selected archival photographs that brought to life the story of the oldest modern dance company in the United States.

Mikhail Baryshnikov / Quotes

 

Mikhail Baryshnikov

QUOTES

by Mikhail Baryshnikov

 

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Life’s Work: An Interview with Mikhail Baryshnikov

by Alison Beard 

May 2010

Mikhail Baryshnikov began studying ballet at age nine in his native Riga, Latvia, then part of the Soviet Union. By his early twenties, he had been described by one critic as “the most perfect dancer I have ever seen” and was the star of the famed Kirov Ballet. In 1974 he defected to Canada, then settled in the U.S. at the American Ballet Theatre, where he later became artistic director. He left in 1989 to cofound a modern dance company and take on film, theater, and TV roles. He is now the artistic director of the Baryshnikov Arts Center and, at age 63, still performs.

Staging Schiele review / Art, obsession and orgasmic yelps

Striking moments but lacks light and shade ... Staging Schiele. Photograph: Foteini Christofilopoulou

Staging Schiele review – art, obsession and orgasmic yelps

 

DanceEast, Ipswich

The expressionist aesthetics of Egon Schiele’s nudes should make for riveting dance, but Shobana Jeyasingh’s production is a bit too beige

Anna Winter
Sunday 20 October 2019

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t’s easy to see why the work of Austrian painter Egon Schiele (1890-1918) is tempting choreographic catnip. The expressionist aesthetics of Schiele’s nudes – emotionally charged and attenuated lines, tense dynamics and oddly contorted poses – seem like a natural fit for contemporary dance. Despite this felicitous figural match, Shobana Jeyasingh’s Staging Schiele doesn’t always make for riveting dance.

DIOR dress, £14,000 (dior.com) Blair Getz Mezibov

Actress, dancer and coyote feeder: introducing indie actress Margaret Qualley

Margaret Qualley is hardly your typical celebrity offspring. Andie MacDowell’s daughter tells Johanna Thomas-Corr about facing down her demons, starring with Ryan Gosling — and being the film world’s new indie darling...

Johannah Thomas Corr

Wednesday 14 June 2017

It’s a sweltering hot day in Los Angeles and, in a bohemian café in the understated neighbourhood of Echo Park, Margaret Qualley is telling me how she spends her free time. ‘We call it coyote hunting but actually it’s more like coyote nurturing,’ says the 22-year-old actress and model of her habit of cruising around Hollywood with her sister, Rainey, and feeding the city’s prairie wolves. ‘My sister and I are pretty dorky, so we drive around at night in her car listening to old Disney songs and feed the coyotes cans of wet cat food, which I’m sure is a terrible idea. Meanwhile, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty showtunes are playing in the background. It’s a big night for us,’ she laughs.

Dance / Nela Sisarić and Nino Bokan

Nela Sisarić and Nino Bokan

DANCE
Work in Progress

Croatia, 2012

Video: Neven Muretić

Música y producción: Johan Troch

Yang LiPing / Moon / Solo Dance

MOON

SOLO DANCE

by Yang LiPing

楊麗萍一直以為女人就如同月光一樣有形和無形，她用抽象和變形的肢體語言表現了她的情­感和月光的聖潔，在舞蹈中我們會看到舞蹈家是怎樣張開她那想像的翅膀。

楊麗萍
雲南大理白族人。 1971年進入西雙版納州歌舞團。她主演的大型民族舞劇《孔雀公主》曾榮獲雲南省19­79年調演表演一等獎。 1986年她創作並表演的獨舞《雀之靈》是她的成名作，曾榮獲第二屆全國舞蹈比賽創作­一等獎，表演第一名。 1990年在北京第十一屆亞運會閉幕式中，她主演大型舞蹈《雀之靈》。 1992年5月她成為大陸第一位赴台灣的舞蹈家。 1993年在中央電視台春節晚會上她創作、表演的雙人舞《兩棵樹》獲一等獎。 1994年9月中華人民共和國國務院授予她"全國民族團結、進步模範"稱號。同年12­月獨舞《雀之靈》榮獲中華民族二十世紀舞蹈經典作品金獎。她導演並主演的電影《太陽鳥­》獲得加拿大蒙特利爾電影節評委會大獎。她出訪世界許多國家進行藝術交流，相繼在新加­坡、菲律賓、美國、加拿大、台灣、日本等國家或地區舉辦專場舞蹈晚會。菲律賓國家民間­舞蹈協會贈予她終生會員。楊麗萍酷愛舞蹈藝術在舞蹈上獨闢蹊徑，自成風格。 

楊麗萍出於對舞蹈的熱愛和與生俱來的民族特質，用了一年多的時間，深入雲南各地采風，­甑選了具有云南典型代表的音樂舞蹈元素，花了十五個月的時間精心排演，用獨到的視角和­想像力傾心構架這一台大型原生態歌舞集《雲南映像》。並用原生、古樸的民族歌舞與新銳­的藝術構思去展示《雲南映像》這一嶄新的舞台藝術創作風格。