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June 1, 2008 at 10:54 pm · Filed under ballet, dance, new york city ballet, dancers, media, video, podcast, SUSAN, dance and technology, abt, youtube, myspace, companies, marketing, dance companies, dance online, american ballet theatre, so you think you can dance, internet
The Arts & Music section of today’s Los Angeles Times takes a look at the growing popularity of Internet publicity among dancers and dance companies.
The YouTube video that seems to have prompted the article:
The connection between the video above and the rest of the article is, to me, a little fuzzy. Overall, though, the article is pretty neat. Especially cool is that Looseleaf recognizes certain notables, including Daniil Simkin, Rolando Sarabia, Anaheim Ballet, Grover Dale’s Answers4Dancers and, of course, New York City Ballet’s website and YouTube channel. (Congrats, Kristin!)
The full text of the article follows below for anyone who might be interested. Take a read!
My favourite quote: Asked what company co-founder and choreographer George Balanchine would have thought about the Internet, [NYCB’s General Manager Ken] Tabachnick replies, “He was an innovator. Balanchine loved change and didn’t shy away from new things. I imagine he would have loved it.”
:-)
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July 13, 2007 at 6:55 pm · Filed under SLOAN, backstage, dance, artists, video, art, podcast, photographers, hermes, gerard uferas, paris opera ballet, hermes gallery, photographs, exhibition
Posted by Kristin Sloan
WING018 | Gérard Uféras | In The Company of Stars
A few weeks ago, I stopped by the Hermés Gallery to talk to Gérard Uféras on the day that his exhibition, In The Company of Stars, opened. The photographs in the exhibit were taken behind-the-scenes at the Paris Opera Ballet over a two year period, and are part of an upcoming book of the same name.
I was really struck by how well he understood the feeling and emotions of the living environment within a dance company. These are beautifully intimate shots that are not staged and use no additional lighting. As he says, he learned to breathe with the dancers. I understood that to involve learning how the dancers move and react, and then trying to place yourself within their space and time to illuminate those moments with light and film. The backstage scene is also not new to Gérard. He has previously published books that capture the fashion and opera worlds from behind the curtain. (The Fabric of Dreams, Un fantome á l’Opéra, and L’Etoffe Des Reves.)
The exhibit will be open for one more week, until July 21st. The Hermés Gallery is located on the top floor of the Hermés flagship store on Madison Avenue at 65th St. (don’t worry, there is an elevator if you are afraid of being too tempted by the store items). I highly recommend stopping by!
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March 20, 2007 at 4:21 pm · Filed under SLOAN, choreographers, podcast, san francisco, jean-pierre frohlich, audio interview, san francisco ballet, jerome robbins
Posted by Sloan
San Francisco Ballet has begun recording their “Meet the Artist” interviews (taking advantage of modern technology! yay!) and posting them as audio podcasts on their website.
The most recent audio podcast is an interview with Jean-Pierre Frohlich. A former NYCB dancer, he’s currently a resident Ballet Master with NYCB, responsible for setting a large percentage of the Jerome Robbins ballets in the company’s repertoire, and travels the world through the Jerome Robbins Trust and Foundation setting Robbins’ ballets on other dance companies. (He’s always been one of my favorite ballet masters at NYCB. He’s helped me so much throughout my career, in coaching, encouragement, and in giving me new opportunities, so it was fun to see him as one of their subjects for the podcast.)
Apparently he was recently at San Francisco Ballet to stage Fancy Free, and talks a lot about this ballet, as well as a few other Robbins works. Definitely take a few minutes to check it out.
Also, in the podcast previous to this one, is a discussion about the creation of Wayne MacGregor’s Eden/Eden, which Megan talked about it her last post.
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January 21, 2007 at 4:06 pm · Filed under backstage, ballet, rehearsal, rehearsals, dancers, architecture, video, art, podcast, Repertory, EVAN MCKIE, the stuttgart Ballet, dancing, architects, event, wingers
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Hello WINGERs……………..
I must tell you about my fascinating trip to Paris.
Brigitte Lefevre, the ‘directrice de la danse’ at The Paris Opera invited the Stuttgart Ballet to open the theater’s incredible 2007 season with our immensely popular, ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ (Shakespeare, Cranko, Stolze/Scarlatti.) So even though we had a mere few days between Christmas and New Years to rehearse this (rather big) ballet, we were off to Paris! I have been to Paris to see ballet before (Stuttgart to Paris is less than an hour flight) and am quite close with some members of the company, but the idea of actually dancing on the fabulous (raked) stage of the historical Opera Garnier seemed like a distant dream… Well, it turned out that I would be dancing 5 of the 6 performances and suddenly being there was an actual reality!
‘’Taming'’, as we call it, has two main couples. The story revolves around the boisterous Petruccio’s comical dialogue with Katerina(The shrew, who is seen in an angry (typical for her) rage because her beautiful and sought-after sister, Bianca, is entertaining THREE suitors. ) The three suitors are the foolish ‘Gremio’, the flamboyant ‘Hortensio’ and the poetically lovesick ‘Lucentio’. Bianca is touched by Lucentio and the two become a couple. Anyone who knows the story, knows how these two main couples serve as foils for the other. Lucentio and Bianca are extremely idealistic about there love whereas it is Petruccio and Kate’s honest eccentricities that ultimately create a meaningful relationship. That means that the choreography that John Cranko chose to represent these traits has Bianca and Lucentio dancing very pretty and precise classical ballet steps throughout whereas Petruccio and Kate do explosively powerful (and often hilarious) movements.
I danced Lucentio (the poetic prince-like suitor) and Hortensio (an outrageous and self-absorbed suitor who has a variation where he almost kills Bianca in an attempt to impress her with his ’supreme’ expertise on the mandolin.) I get a kick out of dancing these two roles back to back as they are in most of the same scenes but have very contrasting personalities. Lucentio is a very technical role with lots of batterie , pirouttes, and partnering…(In the second act Carnival scene, he must perform an immensely quick variation which leads directly into a long love pas de Deux with Bianca, full of Cranko lifts and off balance promennades. The audience doesn’t notice the effort that goes into making the steps appear as smooth as possible but good endurance is required ..) As for Hortensio, he must always be ridiculously flamboyant and the role requires a lot of improvisational acting and timing = major fun!
As we were all relatively busy performing or rehearsing (there were a few important debuts and also the need to adapt to the raked-forward stage which makes pirouttes and lifts quite a challenge at first…), most of our Parisien sight-seeing took place within the walls of the Garnier. I had a couple of minutes where I thought I would take some cell-phone-footage of what such a beautiful theatre looks like from the ‘Wings'’ so to speak. I recommend going for yourselves to watch anything from the awesome line-up and also to witness the beauty of the foyer and auditorium, if you haven’t already. This clip is more of a WINGER exclusive 
compiled simply of images of what the Opera House looks like from another angle……
I had a truly amazing time in France and tried to give my best performance in a hysterical ballet at a very historical venue.
Love ’til next time
-Evan
(click on the Opera Garnier image at the top to view footage)
The Stuttgart Ballet
L’Opera de Paris
a note on Cranko’s ‘’Taming of the Shrew'’
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November 27, 2006 at 5:55 pm · Filed under SLOAN, backstage, ballet, new york city ballet, new york state theater, dressing room, hair, makeup, video, GWYNETH, podcast, vidcast
| | Posted by Sloan
Gwyneth and I shot this before her debut as the Hostess in NYCB’s production of The Nutcracker.
Also appearing are Maya Collins, Troy Schumacher, and Henry Seth.
Music: “Further” by Etherdust.
Video: Starring Gwyneth, filmed and edited by Sloan.
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October 26, 2006 at 1:16 pm · Filed under food, video, art, podcast, vidcast, TONY, dance and technology, apples
Dancing is hard work…and hard work is a dance. Making cider is hard work too and uses lots of technology. While many are thinking about their Halloween costumes I am focused on one thing.
Apples.
Every year my family and friends get together to make cider under the direction of my father, Stephen Schultz. We use a blend of Golden Russet, Red Spy and Northern Spy apples to make the juice and a special line of cider yeast to process the fermentation. In time we filter it, chill it and put in bubbles. We make enough to share with friends and raise spirits throughout the year.
Next weekend is time again to make cider. Above is a timelapse from last years apple crushing extravaganza. Check out the apples, the cool hydraulic press and all those bodies moving. I work for my apple juice with an ensemble cast. Its a labor of love and it feels like dancing.
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