The Danish are Coming Monday March 21st
You are cordially invited to attend the next Works and Process at the Guggenheim Museum live stream.
Who: The Royal Danish Ballet
What: Will be performing excerpts of August Bournonville’s The Jockey Dance, La Sylphide, A Folk Tale, and Bournonville Variations, plus Nikolaj Hübbe’s new staging of Napoli, and Jorma Elo’s Lost on Slow.
When: Monday March 21st at 7:30pm–SAVE THE DATE
Where: Works and Process at the Guggenheim Museum. However, the show is Sold Out so you will be able to stream it on DIYdancer.
Why: To celebrate the beautiful, clean artistry of the Danish style, and as a preview to their American tour in May and June. Artistic Director and former New York City Ballet principal Nikolaj Hübbe will share his vision for the company in a discussion moderated by John Meehan, Professor of Dance at Vassar College.
I hope you will join us for the stream and live discussion with Candice Thompson.
Click here to read a short interview with Nikolaj Hubbe about his new staging of Napoli.
Live Stream of W & P Monday Night on The Winger
Once again, Works and Process at the Guggenheim Museum has sold out and they are offering a live stream of the show. Tune in to The Winger or DIYdancer tomorrow night, February 28th at 7:30pm, to see John Zorn’s Music Interpreted – New Choreography by Donald Byrd and Pam Tanowitz.
Each choreographer was commissioned by W & P to create new works to the music of composer John Zorn. Below, is an interview with John Zorn and Pam Tanowitz to get you warmed up for the show:
I will be moderating an online discussion in real time via Ustream and Twitter. Hope you will join me!
P.S. You can view the video from the last live stream of PNB: Giselle Revisited here.
So You Think You Can Dance!
Hey Wingers!!
I’m sorry I haven’t been able to post in such a long time. With a tv show, there are a lot of things we’re not allowed to do, and any sort of interactions on the internet are one of them! But now that I’m off the show, I can somewhat resume to a normal daily life.
Just thought I would update you all on what has happened since I last posted! SO - I auditioned for So You Think You Can Dance again (season 7) and after a long and grueling process, I made it to the top 10! (Top 11 this year). I had such an amazing journey on the show and I learned SO much and I am so grateful for everything. I spent 5 weeks on the show, and during that 5 weeks I had the most life changing experience. I know it sounds crazy that something can really drastically change your life in 5 weeks, but this definitely does! With the crazy schedule, how much we learn and the amazing people that you get to work with AND live with, it just completely betters you as a person.
I’ll update everyone later on my specific experience through the whole process but I just wanted to check in first and let everyone know how I am doing. On my 5th week, I suffered an injury the night before show day during a rehearsal of my Bollywood piece on stage. I completely snapped my right Achilles tendon in half, and that has forced me to withdraw from the competition.
I’m just waiting here in LA for my surgery tomorrow morning (Tuesday, July 13th) and hoping that it all goes well so I can start my long journey to recovery!
I just want to say thank you to everyone who has supported me throughout my journey and that I am so grateful for even being here in the first place.
If you’d like to follow me closely I will be keeping my facebook page and my twitter page constantly updated. You can follow me on twitter here:
http://www.twitter.com/alexdwong
Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/alexwongdance
Here is the Sonya Tayeh contemporary piece that I danced with Allison Holker:
And here is the Tabitha & Napoleon Hip Hop piece that I danced with Twitch! :
Enjoy!
Find Love with the Paris Opera Ballet and Dr. Fisher
Join me on Monday night for just that: the Guggenheim Works and Process presents EMOTION & MOTION With dancers from the Paris Opera Ballet and Dr. Helen Fisher. I will be tweeting this event live at 7:30p from @lolastretch and @worksandprocess.
I will take you, 140 characters at a time, through the lecture and performance as Clairemarie Osta and Mathieu Ganio, ?toile dancers from the internationally acclaimed Paris Opera Ballet, will interpret various stages of love through dance, with discussion on brain systems that evolved for reproduction: lust, romantic love, and attachment by renowned anthropologist Dr. Helen Fisher, author of Why We Love and Why Him? Why Her?.
Interspersed between excerpts from Giselle, Emeralds and Caligula, Dr. Helen Fisher explores the connections between the dances and lust, romantic love and attachment. Today’s NY Times also references Dr. Fisher in an article about the business of finding love.
Happy Valentine’s Day! and hope to interact with you all on Monday night via twitter feeds!
xo
Candice
Taking Advantage of the Web
These days the Internet is making the world more connected than ever before. Throughout my life I have lived in many different places so the Internet has always been an important way for me to keep in touch with close friends. Recently though, I decided to push my use of the Internet a little bit farther. Now I have a facebook page, a twitter (both private and public), and my own blog site. Don’t worry, the winger will still be the first place I put my blogs! If you are interested in following me in more places than just thewinger I have posted the information and websites below.
I send a big thanks to the World Wide Web for making the world a little bit more connected.
I hope one day soon I will find a way to use the connections I make through the internet for even more, one step at a time.
