Dance Informa Magazine
All posts tagged "COVID-19"
-
3.6KFeature ArticlesState of the professional dance industry through COVID-19, Part II: Looking into the future
Concert dance means many people gathered together in a confined space — audiences, crew members, performers and front-of-house staff. That’s the simple...
-
3.7KReviewsMartha Graham Dance Company reimagines lost solo ‘Immediate Tragedy’
June 19, 2020. Online, on YouTube. On June 19, for the first time since 1937, the Martha Graham Dance Company performed a reimagining...
-
2.4KReviewsNYCB Digital Spring Season: The show must go on
March, April and May 2020.Online (YouTube and Facebook, through www.nycballet.com) It’s sort of striking to think how years of planning can change...
-
2.2KReviewsPerformance Mix Festival, Online: ‘Remotely Yours’
May 2020.Online at newdancealliance.org. Pandemic times mean that in-person dance festivals are absolutely out of the question. Rather than fully give into...
-
9.7KFeature ArticlesBreak the Floor announces Summer Jam is on!
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Break the Floor has sadly had to cancel its annual summer event, DancerPalooza. However, Summer Jam is...
-
2.1KFeature ArticlesShort film ‘Icarus’: In the face of COVID-19
Pietro Pinto, award-winning Italian director, has created a short film, Icarus, starring Angelo Greco, acclaimed Italian dancer and San Francisco Ballet principal....
-
3.8KFeature Articles‘Duet While Solo’: Bita Bell rethinks what moving in quarantine can be
Dance Informa sat down with Iran-born and U.S.-based dancer Bita Bell (PhD). A teacher at Gibney in NYC and sought-after artist both...
-
3.7KDance Health4 ways to keep your training strong during quarantine
A busy dancer’s day can consist of moving studio to studio — to take class, rehearse, cross-train and audition. In a world...
-
1.7KFeature ArticlesCanceled: How dancers, companies and festivals are coping without summer seasons
World-renowned choreographers, teachers, directors and dancers Johannes Wieland and Evangelos Poulinas co-founded the Berlin-based contemporary dance festival, b12, now an international event...
-
1.8KFeature ArticlesBroadway Teaches Kids launches virtual summer camp
Broadway Teaches Kids (BTK), the children’s performing arts virtual camp, is co-founded by mom and finance executive Suzanne Murphy and Tony Award-nominated,...
-
2.3KFeature ArticlesDancing at home…with your pets!
For most of us, all of this time at home is a new sensation. No studio or office to go to, all...
-
5.0KFeature ArticlesChoreography Online’s new competition for the virtual era
Choreography Online has announced a brand new competition for the virtual era – the International Online Dance Competition (IODC). “You’ve prepared tirelessly...
-
2.8KFeature ArticlesStagestep brings the dance floor to your home
Stagestep Inc., America’s oldest dance floor company, announced today that by the end of April 2020, it will have provided more than...
-
2.8KFeature ArticlesSó Dança’s Just Dance virtual competition is just what we need
While times are tough at the moment, what’s most important is that our community – the arts community – is coming together....
-
3.2KDance HealthCOVID-19’s silver lining for the dance world
While it’s easy to get bogged down in the midst of the global pandemic we are facing, the dance world has responded...
-
2.6KFeature ArticlesArtistic Dance Exchange goes virtual
As the dance world adapts to a new – and hopefully temporary – way of life, more and more dance studios, teachers...
-
2.4KDance HealthSteps on Broadway classes you can take in your living room
Staying home is the socially responsible thing to do for your community right now, but dancers tend to have a hard time...
-
2.4KFeature ArticlesThrough the darkness of COVID-19 comes light and reflection
Canceled. Postponed. Closed. These are just some of the words the dance industry has come to face in the wake of COVID-19....
-
3.8KFeature ArticlesDancing in Isolation: Resources for dancers during COVID-19
The dance community is small but connected. And dancers are physical people. During this time of social-distancing, it’s easy to lose our...
-
2.9KFeature ArticlesDance at home with Broadway Dance Center
During this uncertain time, Broadway Dance Center (BDC) is busily working on ways to keep its students engaged and inspired while they’re...
-
2.1KFeature ArticlesLog in for Lincoln Center at Home Class
This Thursday, March 26, dancer and Lincoln Center Teaching Artist Deborah Lohse will teach a live dance class on Lincoln Center’s Facebook page for a Lincoln Center Pop-Up Classroom,...
-
2.7KFeature ArticlesBDC dances on, online, in this moment of social distancing
The social distancing of this current world has made it necessary for everyone to make changes to their daily life. “Everyone” includes...
