Tag: dance
Heart and Soul
BY MEGHBARTMA GAUTAM The performance of legendary choreographer David Zambrano had the mainstream audience thawing at the edges. A colorful contrast and a wonderful juxtaposition, this was an evening well spent. Check them out at the Cantor tomorrow! The tickets were in an envelope, the gallery was closed and at 8:03 pm, the sense of anticipation was palpable. Between the start and the finish of David Zambrano’s Soul Project, something changed ephemerally […]
13 Talented Technicians: the SF Ballet Trainees return to Stanford
By KATHERINE DISENHOF The San Francisco Ballet School Trainees performed at Roble Gym last Friday, April 13, in a demonstration of outstanding technique and artistic potential. Their third annual performance at Stanford, the trainees danced three complete works and one excerpt. Consisting of 13 students – five boys, six girls – between 16-21 years old, the trainee program is an exclusive group typically hand-picked from the top level of […]
Viral Video of the Week: Le vent (ballet in super slow motion)
by LEIGH TANNER Viral Video is our weekly feature that looks at the real way our generation experiences dance and dance culture—through video, animation and the Internet. Slow down any sort of motion to its most minute details and the true nature of an object’s trajectory through space is revealed. Slow down ballet to its most minute details and somehow an already exquisite and elegant dance form is rendered […]
Viral Video of the Week: Dancer as Athlete by The New York Times
By LEIGH TANNER Viral Video is our weekly feature that looks at the real way our generation experiences dance and dance culture—through video, animation and the Internet. Examining the intersection between dance and athletics is not a new concept, nor is it particularly groundbreaking to declare dancers athletes. However, I am always interested to see a new approach to the grey area between athleticism and artistry. In this video […]
Preview: Chocolate Heads’ “Red Shift” Transitions to a New Plane
By LEIGH TANNER The word collaborative brings to mind an entire spectrum of juxtaposed art forms, ideologies and elements, but rarely does it involve the essence of collaboration itself infused in the creator’s creed. Such determination is reserved for groups like Stanford’s own Chocolate Heads Movement Band, whose performance “Red Shift” previews tonight at 8pmin Roble Gym. Directed and choreographed by Aleta Hayes, this is the third year of […]
“What Can Scientists Learn from Ballet?” It’s Still Unclear.
BY KATHERINE DISENHOF “Technology innovation and artistic creativity are two sides of the same coin, yet there is little cross-pollination between these two worlds,” stated Sylvie Leotin in the opening remarks of “What Can Scientists Learn from Ballet?” on Friday evening at Wallenberg Hall’s Learning Theater. A partnership between the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts and Leotin’s CAST (Connecting Art Science and Technology) Labs, the event intended to […]
Cunningham Crash Course: An Introduction to “Merceness”
BY STAV ZIV Originally printed in the Stanford Lively Arts Magazine Merce Cunningham’s technique and aesthetic are anything but a list of facts to be memorized the night before an exam, regurgitated for its duration, and quickly erased from memory. The tenets of his style and approach are more subtle and complex than a cram session could cover, but a handful of dance students were afforded an invaluable glimpse in […]
Melding Minds and Bodies: The Bay Area Dance Exchange
By KATHERINE DISENHOF On Saturday, November 12, seventy-five participants from six schools gathered at Roble Gym for the fourth Bay Area Dance Exchange. An invaluable opportunity for both students and faculty to meet their peers and share ideas, the event was spearheaded by Diane Frank, the acting director of the Stanford Dance Division, and attended by schools from every corner of the bay. Participating colleges included California State University East […]
Nearly Ninety²: Lost in Time
by STAV ZIV Review of Merce Cunningham Dance Company in Nearly Ninety2 A trio plus one grows into a quartet, cut in half continues as a duet, multiplied becomes four duets, rearranged and divided becomes two quartets, scattered makes way for a solo, compounded unfurls into a string of solos. Thus, the Merce Cunningham dance company shifts shapes and sizes in the riveting “Nearly Ninety2” for nearly ninety minutes. The […]
Glitter as Sport: An Inside Look at the Life of a Ballroom Dancer
BY JESSICA A. LEE “Oh, just like on Dancing with the Stars!” That’s always the first reaction, when I tell someone that I do competitive ballroom dance. “Yup, just like it!” I say and wag my head up and down, but it’s not really like Dancing with the Stars at all. We don’t get new dresses made for every performance; we never get the whole floor to ourselves; we’d never […]