Dance diary. April 2023
…on immensely appealing, I was lucky to have seen it as a complete work. An obituary by Laura Capelle, as published in the Financial Times, is at this link. Unfortunately, like most of the obituaries I accessed, this one probably requires payment to read. I’ll keep looking for others that are free and that make worthwhile reading. Lucy Guerin News from Lucy Guerin Inc is that the company will be appearing at the Venice Biennnale in a program curate…
Dance diary. September 2020
…f the book, written in 2010 for The Canberra Times, at this link. A moving obituary by Karen van Ulzen for Dance Australia, to which Alan was a long-term contributor, is at this link. Jack Riley It was interesting to see that Marcus Wills’ painting Requiem (JR) was selected as a finalist for the 2020 Archibald Prize. While Wills states that the painting is not meant to be ‘biographical’, the (JR) of the title stands for dancer Jack Riley. Riley be…
Louis Solino (1941–2022)
…1, Philadelphia; died 5 January 2022, New Jersey An edited version of this obituary first appeared in New Zealand in Stuff Entertainment on 22 January 2022. Sources: Anne Rowse, Felicity Hamill, Daniel Belton, Sarah Lawrey, Jane Woodhall, Richard Mapp, Carolyn Lambourn, Sue Nicholls, Sue Alexander Jennifer Shennan, 29 January 2022 Featured image: Louis Solino in The Nero Show. Circa Theatre, Wellington, 2010. Photo: © Stephen A’Court. Courtesy Ci…
Coralie Hinkley (1922–2021)
…to COVID lockdown in the ACT. This situation has limited the scope of this obituary for the moment. 1. Coralie Hinkley, ‘Reflections on dance at Fort Street.’ In The Fortian, 1976, p. 77. 2. Coralie Hinkley, ‘Vision’. In Bettina Vernon-Warren and Charles Warren (eds), Gertrud Bodenwieser and Vienna’s Contribution to Ausdruckstanz (Harwood Academic Publishers, 1999) p. 167. 3. Coralie Hinkley, Innovisions. Expressions of Creativity in Dance (Cygnet…
Dance diary. April 2022
…ohns when just recently I noticed, via Google Analytics, that views of the obituary on this website, which I wrote for Anne in 2020, had been steadily rising (around the second anniversary of her death). Anna Karenina Anna Karenina live (as opposed to the streamed version) left me a little underwhelmed, so I decided not to do a full review but simply to make a few comments. Despite the so-called ’rave reviews’ that have appeared in various places,…
Dance diary. April 2021
…tag Liam Scarlett. Thanks to all those who follow On dancing. Press for April 2021 From Michelle: Review of The Point by Liz Lea Dance Company. Limelight, 30 April 2021. Online magazine only at this link. From Jennifer: Obituary for Liam Scarlett. Dominion Post, 30 April 2021, p. 19. Online version, Michelle Potter, 30 April 2021 Featured Image: The Dance—David McAllister. © 2016 Peter Brew-Bevan. National Portrait Gallery, Canberra…
Dance diary. February 2021
…e much admired Sydney-based teacher Tanya Pearson died in February. See an obituary for her in Dance Australia at this link, and watch a lovely 30 minute tribute, filmed in 2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrU2-tJKi44 Kristian Fredrikson. Designer. More reviews and comments Another review, this time from Lee Christofis, appeared in the March issue of Limelight Magazine. It is a rather special review as Christofis knows something of the backst…
Dance diary. January 2021
…artists Patrick Harding-Irmer and Anca Frankenhaeuser, was exceptional. An obituary in The Guardian, written by Jane Pritchard, is at this link. Kristian Fredrikson. Designer. More reviews and comments The Canberra Times recently published a review of Kristian Fredrikson. Designer in its Saturday supplement, Panorama. The review was written by Emeritus Professor of Art History at the Australian National University, Sasha Grishin. Here is the revie…
Sir Jon Trimmer in open conversation with Garry Trinder
…ne Gilberd, Cathy Goss, Karin Wakefield, Lee Patrice, Eric Languet, Warren Douglas, Kilian O’Callaghan. The earlier romp, The Ragtime Dance Company to Scott Joplin, was another of Veredon’s and Fredrikson’s hits. Bernard Hourseau’s Carmina Burana and Ashley Killar’s choreographies No Exit and Dark Waves also gave Jon some of his strongest roles. Many of the heritage works of the Company’s repertoire exist only in memory, but are no less real for t…
Kristian Fredrikson. Designer. Book review
…m her brother—performed by the much admired (and then much missed ) Warren Douglas. This was the most convincing representation of haka on a ballet stage I have seen in six decades of watching a range of attempts. What a sorry business that Tale was never restaged by RNZB, and it’s a safe if sad bet it is never likely to be—even though the original cast are around and could still be involved, and indeed the choreographer, one of New Zealand’s fin…