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What’s your favorite album of this relatively new millenium? What film changed your life in the past ten years? Best book or videogame? Most memorable performance? As the end of the first decade of the 2000′s approaches, the Missoulian is collecting guest reviews / odes / fawnings from readers about the greatest artistic products and local performances of the past ten years. We’ll run your essays in the paper and online starting Friday, Dec. 18. [Read More...] For anyone who has ever watched a modern dance performance and thought, “that looks like someone having a seizure,” I present this: a seizure presented as a dance performance. Share on Facebook Advertisement For a little Thanksgiving pick-me-up, check out this story in the New York Times, about a man who learned to control the symptoms of cerebral palsy through dance. Fascinating and inspiring; make sure you watch the video. Share on Facebook Following up, in a way, on the underlying point I was trying to make last week about Missoula’s dueling presentations of “The Nutcracker” this year, the Washington Post ran a provocative article on Sunday, which posits that the ubiquity of Tchaikowsky’s classic is “all but squeezing ballet dry” and “emblematic of how dull [...] The Moscow Ballet owns Nutcracker.com. In this digital age, that’s as good an indication as any of the intertwined history between the Russian ballet company and Pyotr Tchaikowsky’s beloved ballet, “The Nutcracker.” Though the company performs a broader repertoire of classical ballet on a limited circuit of major cities during the rest of the year, its name is synonymous with the holiday classic in most other parts of the country. But the reverse isn’t necessarily true, especially here in Missoula, where local dance company Garden City Ballet has been producing its own “Nutcracker” for a quarter century now. Over the course of several nights this December, Garden City Ballet will once again present its familiar production, stacked with a cast of young local dancers bolstered by two professional guests and a small cast of local celebrities (including Missoula Mayor John Engen). First, though, this Saturday evening, Moscow Ballet will bring its lavish touring production to the University Theatre, where it will present a performance in which dancers from another Missoula ballet company, the Rocky Mountain Ballet Theatre, will play important roles. Indeed, Moscow Ballet’s production wouldn’t have come to Missoula without the participation of the local company. The case of the dueling “Nutcrackers” is just the latest reflection of a long-standing fissure in the local ballet community. The Hellgate Middle School students who participated in a world-wide coordinated dance of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” can now claim part of a world record. According to the “Thrill the World” Web site, which coordinated the dance, the event drew 22,923 people in 32 countries to dance in the event. If certified by Guinness [...] It’s been a few years since Missoula has seen much in the way of touring Broadway productions. That changes in the coming months, with four big shows headed our way as part of a new “Broadway in Missoula” series sponsored by the Missoulian and KECI. [Read More...] It’s looking like the autumnal rains are finally here, which is good for dousing these lingering forest fires, but not-so-good for producers of “Shine,” the outdoor dance party scheduled for this Saturday, Oct. 3. The locally organized event promises dusk-til-dawn DJs, an Afro-Cuban percussion ensemble, and performances of “aerial art” by Veronica deSoyza (choreographer for the Broadway production of “Tarzan” and hip-hop star Usher) and Shaneca Adams, whose resume includes Off-Broadway productions of “Stomp”, “Blue Man Group”, and “De La Guarda.” An intriguing event, no doubt. Too bad it was pegged to a weekend when snow is typically more common than “shine.” [Read More...] This week, UM Productions celebrates its 40th anniversary with a free performance by Cracker on the UM Oval. In researching a preview, I came across an almost-complete list of shows that UM Productions has done over the years (shows prior to 1971 are missing from the list). There’s a TON of shows there, [...] I get a lot of overblown hype dumped into my inbox every day; but this press release still stood out from the pack. What’s not to love? A 21-year old with a stripper’s name invents a new! genre! that somehow, some way connects the heretofore unfathomably disparate poles of rap and rock, Christina Aguilera and 50 Cent! |
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