Anyone here speak dance?
Article Abstract:
Dance training is basically the same everywhere but taste and money limit the transferability of dance across Europe. In Britain money goes directly to the dancers, whereas on the Continent the venues and promoters receive payment. This makes it extremely expensive to present continental companies in England - a British company would cost between 600 pounds sterling and 1,200 pounds sterling a night but a French or Belgian company would cost about 5,000 pounds sterling. Commissioning dance from individual choreographers is cheaper. National differences in taste are also a problem, with the French liking emotional intensity, the British very abstract and ironic, the Dutch using complicated high-tech staging.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1992
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Feet, please don't fail them now
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The London Contemporary Dance Theatre and the Rambert Dance Company were popular in the UK from the 1960s to the 1990s, when they received poor reviews and audiences fell. British ballet companies use a repertory system. Shows present works by more than one choreographer. Public taste has changed and a whole evening of one style is required. Radical European choreographers have not been attracted to working for these repertory companies. Both companies sacked their artistic directors and intend to expand to solve their financial problems.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1993
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It all started with the chicken dance
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The Royal Ballet has attempted to attract young dancers from a wider range of children by devising a programme to interest inner city school children from ethnic minorities. The programme called 'A Chance to Dance' was aimed at inner city schools with large numbers of Asian or black pupils. After auditioning, selected pupils with flair and musicality were offered free tuition to counteract the difficulties faced by non white or working class children attempting to make a career in ballet.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1992
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