By Jeannette Anderson Instead of opening its season with the planned mixed bill Celebrate!, Dutch National Ballet made a timely change in programming with the more somber triple bill, Shadows, featuring Kurt Jooss’ iconic 1932 anti-war ballet, The Green Table. Company director Ted Brandsen explained in a program note that they did so because Jooss’
By Jenn Edwards The pandemic has transformed how dancers take class. While the lockdown is temporary, now that virtual class infrastructures are in place many organizations and teachers will continue to have online offerings into the fall, even in locations that are cautiously re-opening. A screen can never replace the experience of a three-dimensional teacher
Frida Kahlo’s paintings are a blaze of colour, embedded in indigenous Mexican culture, and depicting a world quite apart from her life of chronic physical pain. In Kahlo’s iconic self-portraits, she eyeballs her audience with total honesty, exposing her broken and mangled body, the result of a crippling accident, and effectively subverting the male gaze.