ICE THEATRE OF NEW YORK This isn't the Ice Capades or a Disney show; this company is serious about plumbing the aesthetic and emotional possibilities of dance on ice.
Although she was already an accomplished ballerina, Preobrajenska continued to take lessons from well-known European instructors throughout her career, and she worked diligently to master the expressive possibilities of dance.
"Blimey!" The music of New Order has created a kind of communion between the melodic conventions of pop and the rhythmic possibilities of dance music — and also between traditional rock instruments (bass, guitar, drums) and electronic alternatives (drum machines, synthesizers, sequencers).
Sometime in the 14th century a sarugaku actor from Nara named Kan'ami incorporated in his plays a chanted dance (kuse-mai or kōwaka-mai), for the first time creating the possibility of dramatic dance that could carry forward a story.
Nijinsky's convulsive, earthbound choreography and Stravinsky's roiling musical dissonances brought a new sensibility, a new set of possibilities to dance.
You forced yourself to find transformational possibilities of rendering dance in language.
Since those days, the possibilities of staging dance have been thrown wide open.
For an album that celebrates the transcendent possibilities of the dance floor, the mood of "In Colour" is often one of withdrawal.
My background and training is as a theatre-maker, but over the past few years I have become increasingly fascinated by the forms and possibilities of contemporary dance.
