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February 20, 2008 at 4:59 am · Filed under dance, recommendations, ALEX, winger board, questions, contributors
Hey Wingers! Sorry I haven’t posted for so long, we’ve been so busy with performances and rehearsals that I haven’t really had too much time to organize together a post. Something is coming soon though!
I was however scrolling through the site today and I realized that I hadn’t visited “The Winger Boards” for quite some time!
I think most of us have forgotten the boards are here, but I think they’re a very useful and interesting tool for the readers.
http://thewinger.com/mboard/index.php
Now at these boards, there is a section called “Ask The Contributors” and I just wanted to make myself available for anyone who has any questions about anything! I think most of the contributors don’t get too much time to browse around the boards, but if you’d like to ask some questions or discuss anything, your more than welcome to discuss it under the comments of this post, or just send me a friendly reminder by leaving a comment here to go check out the board and answer some questions! 
Hope you are all well!
Recent Posts by alex wong
December 24, 2007 at 4:00 pm · Filed under SLOAN, dance, recommendations, TONY, EVAN MCKIE, MEGAN, wingers, life, MIKI, MAIA, iphone, TAYLOR, MATTHEW, BRIAN, holiday, gifts
As a holiday gift to all of you, (I apologize for it’s lateness)…
A sampling of Winger contributors gave our thoughts on what we (or other people involved in dance) might be excited about for the holidays.
We’ve suggested some things that are useful, inspiring, or just plain cool.
Popular among many contributors were spa treatments (and related goodies), magazine subscriptions, books, music, performance tickets, and the iPhone.
Enjoy!
Also,
LOLAstretch Gift Certificates, which enables the receiver to design their own leotard.
“Give the gift of creative control!”
Another thing I would recommend is season tickets to BAM. - CANDICE
“Look before you leap: an advice guide for choreographers” by Ann Whitley
The description on the back says:
“This is not a book about how to choreograph. It is a practical guide to the negotation, preparation, organization and continuing care of choreographic work. It is intended as a useful source of reference for choreographers, assistant choreographers, dance teachers, managers, administrators, amateurs, movements specialists, composers, designers, technicians and all those who collaborate with choreographers.”
Also,
There is an annual publication in South Africa called “Contacts” - this book contains all contact information for people working in the industry.
A grant to make a work … finding out that my funding applications were successful …. or even just finding a sponsor to support my work;
The completion of my MA thesis.
Spa Treatments for those sore bodies.
Alternative health remedies / tonics to keep us healthy during the intense seasons
Calender with beautiful pics
Funky bag to keep all the rehearsal stuff in
Beautiful journal - to write new ideas in
A subscription to a magazine is always a great gift idea that keeps on giving through-out the year. - MAIA
Also,
Touchstone by Laurie R. King
This book doesn’t come out till Boxing Day, so I guess it doesn’t technically qualify for holiday gift giving status (though I suppose you can always give New Year’s presents… why not?), but Laurie R. King is one of my favorite mystery writers. Her stories are always deliciously smart and satisfyingly precise.
Chocolate
One of those gifts that can very rarely go wrong (though my sister has a friend who likes neither chocolate nor peanut butter! Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups must be like a bad nightmare to him). My recent obsessions are Green and Black’s dark chocolate (really flavorful, but not too bitter) and Theo Chocolate’s “Bread and Chocolate” bar, which is dark chocolate pocked with the tiniest crumbs of salty baugette. This sounds like a really bizarre and unpleasant combination, but it’s addictive and delicious. Plus, the wrapper is a cheerful yellow and has adorable, cartoonish cats on it. - MEGAN
Also,
Tickets to The Nutcracker, Christmas Carol or Passion. - MIKI
Also,
I like all cotton sweats. hate cotton/poly blend. Yuck!
Something like these.
And of course the essential stocking stuffer, We B Girlz. - TONY
Also,
I’d love to be able to design my own ballet-wear somehow… but, like, with a few drags and a click.
…and a puppy. - EVAN
Also,
A subscription to Answers4dancers.com - good website that lists auditions.
And what tops my Xmas wish list this year:
*an iphone or blackberry so I can organize my rehearsal schedule and check emails between running from class to work to where ever! - TAYLOR
Also,
A membership to a museum.
An iTunes gift certificate to purchase some good warm-up music. - MATTHEW
Also,
Always useful - iTunes gift certificates and Starbucks gift cards. (There are four of these within a sic block radius of Lincoln Center).
And warm fuzzy things. - SLOAN
(From Ian, a dancer with Les Ballets Grandiva, who will be joining our family very soon…)
The top on my list are gift certificates for 90 minute massages at the Equinox Spa and 60 minute session gift cards for True Pilates and True Pilates East - anything that soothes aching 35 year old muscles!
Truth be told, I am also a sucker for anything from Hermes in the Hermes orange along with any little Louis Vuitton accessory like the I-Pod case. I guess that’s my two or four cents. - IAN
Recent Posts by kristin sloan
November 1, 2007 at 11:43 pm · Filed under dance, video, recommendations, DAVID, choreographer, david hallberg, netherlands dans theatre, paul lightfoot, sol leon, lightfoot leon, benois de la danse
Paul Lightfoot and Sol Leon are a choreographic duo who earned the title “resident choreographers”at Netherlands Dans Theatre a couple of years ago. The choreographers, having spent much of their dancing careers at NDT under the direction of Jiri Kiylian, ventured into dance making and have won more and more accliam as ‘Lightfoot Leon’.
I met them briefly in Moscow about two years ago during the Benois de la Danse Awards at the Bolshoi, which I was up for ‘best performance’ and they were up for ‘best choreography’, which they ended up winning. I found the piece they presented, beautifully dramatic and captivating.
On a recent You Tube search, I found these two pieces of theirs, both danced by NDT.
Enjoy!
Recent Posts by david hallberg
October 25, 2007 at 4:01 pm · Filed under dance, events, recommendations, GIA, GIA PICKS, new york city, performances, xavier le roy, jerome bel, judson, peforma, visual art, marie cool, fabio balducci, carlos amorales, russel maliphant, isaac julien, pablo bronstein, grand union, kelly nipper, yvonne rainer
Dearest wingers — It’s time to sit in the audience. It’s time to wash Nacho Duato out of your hair. Performa 07, the second edition of a biennial focusing on new visual art performance and established by RoseLee Goldberg, runs Oct 27–Nov 20 — the schedule is endlessly confusing, so I’m just going to list the events that fall under the category of “Dance After Choreography.”
But please check out the website (performa-arts.org) because there is plenty of other fascinating stuff—Pete Drungle’s Continuous 24-hour Solo Piano Improvisation at SculptureCenter, the Israeli artist Tamy Ben-Tor at Salon 94 and Allan Kaprow’s 18 Happenings in 6 Parts (Redoing). I put ** on the things I really care about.
And to remember — not everything will be good, This is a chance to learn a lot in a short amount of time — it will be overwhelming — and just because people look like artists doesn’t mean they are. xoxo
November 2 from 6-8 pm
MARIE COOL AND FABIO BALDUCCI, Untitled (Prayers, 1996-2007)
The Clocktower Gallery, 108 Leonard Street, 13th Floor
Tickets: $14/$12 PERFORMA Members, $10 students, performa-arts.org
November 10-17 with performances at 1 and 2 pm daily
CARLOS AMORALES, Spider Galaxy
590 Madison (The Atrium)
FREE
November 6, 8-10 at 7:30 pm
ISAAC JULIEN AND RUSSELL MALIPHANT, Cast No Shadow
BAM Harvey Theater, 651 Fulton Street
Tickets: $45/$35/$30/$20, www.bam.org or (718) 636-4100
November 7 from 2-5:30 pm
PABLO BRONSTEIN, Plaza Minuet
World Financial Center, One New York Plaza, 60 Wall Street and 375 Hudson Street—please check performa-arts.org for starting location
FREE
** November 7-10 at 7:30 pm
JEROME BEL, Pichet Klunchen and Myself
Dance Theater Workshop, 219 West 19th Street
Tickets: $25/$15 DTW and PERFORMA Members, dtw.org or (212) 691-6500
** November 12 at 7:30 pm
Dance After Choreography: An Evening with Grand Union
Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue
Tickets: $8/$6 students, seniors children/$5 Anthology and PERFORMA Members, available day of show at the Anthology Film Archives Box Office
In this event Douglas Dunn, David Gordon, Nancy Lewis, and Yvonne Rainer — members of the improvisational group Grand Union — reunite for the first time since the group’s dissolution in 1976. it should be hilarious.
November 13 at 7:30 pm
Dance After Choreography: From Judson to the Present
Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue
Tickets: $8/$6 students, seniors children/$5 Anthology and PERFORMA Members, available day of show at the Anthology Film Archives Box Office
November 13-15 at 7 pm
MARKUS SCHINWALD & OLEG SOULIMENKO, Stage Matrix I
Dance New Amsterdam, 280 Broadway, 2nd Floor
Tickets: $18/$14 PERFORMA Members/$12 Students, www.performa-arts.org
November 14-16 at 8:30 pm
KELLY NIPPER, Floyd on the Floor
The Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South
Tickets: $18/$14 PERFORMA Members/$12 Students, www.performa-arts.org
** November 15-17 at 7 pm
XAVIER LE ROY, Le Sacre Du Printemps
Baryshnikov Arts Center, 450 West 37th Street
Tickets: $18/$14 PERFORMA Members/$12 Students, www.performa-arts.org
** November 16-17 at 8 pm
AIDA RUILOVA, The Silver Globe
The Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street
Tickets: $10, 212-255-5793 ext.11
** November 17 from 12-3 pm
NOT FOR SALE: Dance and Conceptual Art in Visual Arts
The Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South
Tickets: $5, www.performa-arts.org
** November 18 at 4 pm
Dance After Choreography: The French Aftershock
Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue
Tickets: $8/$6 students, seniors children/$5 Anthology and PERFORMA Members, available day of show at the Anthology Film Archives Box Office
Two films are shown: Boris Charmatz & Dimitri Chamblas’s Les Disparates and Jerôme Bel’s Veronique Doisneau.
** November 18-19 at 7 pm
YVONNE RAINER, RoS Indexical
The Hudson Theatre at the Millennium Broadway Hotel
Tickets: $18/$14 PERFORMA Members/$12 Students, www.performa-arts.org
Recent Posts by gia
October 25, 2007 at 3:26 pm · Filed under SLOAN, dance, new york city ballet, recommendations, health, exercise, photography, kyle froman, deanna mcbrearty, in the wings, book, fitness
Recently, two of my peers (current and former, respectively) at New York City Ballet, have launched wonderful new things into the world, driven by their love for dance and desire to share it.
Kyle Froman, who has been shooting photos backstage at NYCB for a number of years, has just published a book called In The Wings. Not only does it have photos from behind-the-scenes at NYCB, Kyle also orders the photos as they would appear over the course of a dancer’s day, and provides great text about that day to accompany the photos.
You can purchase his book from Amazon.com, or if you are in the NY-area, you can meet him at his book signing at the Lincoln Center Barnes & Noble on Nov. 25th.
Also, former NYCB-er Deanna McBrearty has taken her expertise as a dancer, and experience in dance-based workouts (she appeared in the New York City Ballet Workout DVDs and books, and is currently a fitness instructor) to bring the health benefits of dance to a broader audience.
She has started a new fitness regime called Balocity, which incorporates dance principles and techniques into her own new exercise program. She teaches her program at the Trump buildings on the Upper West Side of New York City, and has just released a DVD. There is an informative website for Balocity, rich with video and information about both the program and Deanna herself, and she is currently exploring distribution possibilities.
Way to go Kyle and Deanna!
Recent Posts by kristin sloan
September 17, 2007 at 5:28 pm · Filed under dance, music, recommendations, ALEX
Even though I’m not very religious, I prefer to think that there is someone, somewhere that is watching over me and taking care of me .
Today I was doing laundry (there is only one machine in my complex), and I loaded my clothes, put in the detergent, and then put in my money and the machine didn’t start! I called the company that owns the laundry machines, but they didn’t pick up, so the only thing I could do was to take out my clothes and bring them to a friends building to wash.
Anyhow, while I was unloading the clothes, half cursing at my bad luck, I pull out a pair of new bluetooth headphones that I had recently purchased ($130) stuck within my clothes that I had accidentally loaded into the washer with my clothes!
(These are the headphones. They connect wirelessly to any device that supports A2DP and I can listen to music without any wires! I use it with my phone, or if you buy a separate attachment, you can use it with your iPod as well. This way, I can warm up and jump around listening to music without any wires! And the distance is the span of a large dance studio without losing any quality. I highly recommend them to anyone that warms-up using their iPods, or choreographs and doesn’t like to be strapped down by wires. This headphone is the Motorola S9.)
In the end, I was so happy that the laundry machine ate my money and didn’t work, otherwise would have said bye bye to these headphones! Coincidence? Who knows, but these are the times when I think that there is no way that someone is not watching over me. Thank you to whoever that is
Recent Posts by alex wong
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