Many times the older images I stumble upon across the worldwideweb are anonymous or dragged out of the crevices. The first image is unknown but I placed it there to show the absolute fluidity of the image. The second is also unknown and striking for what seems a costume. Third is Clara Tice 1908, Isadora Duncan 1899, and Gertrud Arndt wraps up this post of images which blink my eyes in history. These are real people with real stories and surreal moments captured by what we now call vintage photography... or are they real at all?
Lar Lubovitch Dance Company Founded by Lar Lubovitch in 1968 and now celebrating its 40th anniversary with a national tour as well as a Fall season at the New York City Center. Over the years, the company has gained a reputation as one of the world’s foremost modern dance companies, having performed in virtually every state of the US and in more than 30 foreign countries. Lar's dances are renowned for their musicality, rhapsodic style and sophisticated formal structures. His radiant, highly technical choreography and deeply humanistic voice have been acclaimed throughout the world. Born in Chicago, Lar Lubovitch was educated at the University of Iowa and the Juilliard School in New York. His teachers at Juilliard included Antony Tudor, Jose Limon, Anna Sokolow and Martha Graham.
Visceral Dance Chicago will bring dance to an extensive population, challenging audiences to examine their perception of the dance experience. By providing thought provoking and innovative performances, VDC will push itself to bring new explorations of movement and theater without limitation of specific styles. It is a goal of Visceral Dance Chicago to reach wider audiences, obtain great arts support, and form a universal dance audience. Audiences should be taken to a different place and be exposed to something extraordinary, something that makes them think and ask why. VDC intends to reach to a deeper place to help the audience experience something that is not easy or simple but that cultivates conversation both for the individual and the audience as a whole. Visceral Dance Chicago wants to change the way the audience thinks and views dance. By driving dance in a different direction, VDC hopes to make the art form accessible to everyone, providing an avenue for deeper thought, understanding, and appreciation.
The Seldoms "The Seldoms make contemporary dance that translates inquiry into movement and amplifies its impact through collaboration with image, sound, text and location, providing an avenue for audiences to experience relevant and engaging dance. We are a Chicago based dance performance company that values making intelligent, visual dance theater driven by inquiry. We ground our inquiry in the history of ideas, art history, and our personal experience to find complex and faceted ways to describe the nature of our question." "The center of our work is dance, however, our vision extends to the whole of action and environment on stage."
Butoh The collective name for a diverse range of activities, techniques and motivations for dance, performance, or movement inspired by the Ankoku-Butoh movement. It typically involves playful and grotesque imagery, taboo topics, extreme or absurd environments, and is traditionally performed in white, body makeup with slow, hypercontrolled motion, with or without an audience. But there is no set style, and it may be purely conceptual with no movement at all. Its origins have been attributed to Japanese dance legends Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno.
Capacitor Performance. Art. Science. A San Franciso, California group of interdisciplinary movement artists that accumulate energy from our technologically impacted culture and release it through. From the movement of the human diaphragm to the story of evolution, from the behavior of electricity to genetic manipulation, from the birth of the moon to the cycles of digestion - natural and synthetic processes form the basis for Capacitor’s study of performance. Obsessed with the mechanics of the human body as well as machines that propel the body through space, Capacitor artists have become masters of rigging systems, coutures of wearable sculpture, and engineers of large scale props designed to stretch the limits of physical poetry.
The Lucent Dossier Experience What Lucent does best is create wonderlands for their guests to lose themselves in, so let them be your guide into a fantastical realm where brilliance and insanity fuse together in an exotic kind of ecstatic bliss.
DanceBloggers.com A central hub for people who blog about dance. Includes choreographer, dancer, dance teacher, dance student, dance scholar, dance critic, dance notator, dance presenter, dance observer.
The Folies Bergère is a Parisian music hall which was at the height of its fame and popularity from the 1890s through the 1920s. As of May 2009, the institution is still in business. It opened on 2 May 1869 as the Folies Trévise, with fare including operettas, comic opera, popular songs, and gymnastics. The Folies Bergère on 13 September 1872, named after a nearby street, the rue Bergère (the feminine form of "shepherd"). The Folies Bergère catered to popular taste. Shows featured elaborate costumes; the women's were frequently revealing, practically leaving them naked, and shows often contained a good deal of nudity. Shows also played up the exotic of persons and objects from other cultures, obliging the Parisian fascination with the négritude of the 1920s. In the early 1890s, the American dancer Loie Fuller starred at the Folies Bergère. Nearly thirty years later, in 1926, Joséphine Baker, an African-American expatriate singer, dancer, and entertainer, became an overnight sensation at the Folies Bergère with her suggestive "banana dance", in which she wore a skirt made of bananas and little else. French writer Colette and Charlie Chaplin were two of the many notable performers to grace the stage. excerpt taken from the Folies Bergère
Vaslav Nijinsky and Ida Rubinstein, Scheherazade 1910
Ida Lvovna Rubinstein (5 October 1885 – 20 September 1960) was a famous Russian ballerina, actress, patron and iconic Belle Époque beauty. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia into a wealthy Jewish family, Rubinstein was orphaned at an early age. She had, by the standard of Russian ballet, little formal training. Under the private tutelage of Mikhail Fokine she debuted in 1909 with a single private performance of Oscar Wilde's Salomé, stripping completely nude in the course of the Dance of the Seven Veils. Sergei Diaghilev took her with the Ballets Russes and she danced the title role of Cléopâtre in the Paris season of 1909. This performance was as a powerful spectacle, the costumes were designed by Leon Bakst and the finale inspired Kees van Dongen's Souvenir of the Russian Opera Season 1909. excerpt take from Ida Rubinstein much more written with Theatrex..
Ultima Vez was founded in 1986 as the company and organization of choreographer, director and filmmaker Wim Vandekeybus. Since its foundation, Ultima Vez has intensively developed its activities as an international contemporary dance company with a strong base in Brussels and Flanders. While, during the first years, Ultima Vez focused mainly on the production, promotion and distribution of the artistic work of Wim Vandekeybus (dance, theatre, film), the organization has integrated many other activities.
Ultima Vez has always functioned as an autonomous and independent structure, relying however on a network of co-producers and partners to realize its projects. Currently the activities of Ultima Vez are focused around the following pillars: - the creation, production, the national and international distribution & promotion of the artistic work of Wim Vandekeybus (dance/theatre creations, film & video, kids & youth projects, …); - the organization of art educational activities (classes, workshops, repertory projects…) for various target groups (professional dancers, performers, dance amateurs, children, …); - the ulti'mates programme: the support and counselling of choreographers/theatre makers on the level of (financial) management, administration, production, promotion and/or distribution. For more information about the different Ultima Vez activities, we refer to the respective pages on this website. An overview of the partnerships and networks Ultima Vez relies on or is member of can be found on the synergies pages.
dance bloggers This site was built by Deborah Friedes and Tal Galili. They have established a central hub for people who blog about dance in English. The site will help dance bloggers connect and follow the dance blogosphere; it will also allow people interested in dance and blogging to learn more about the field.
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