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We are thrilled to announce the launch of our second printed edition Fjord Review #2! Contributed to by our brilliant cohort of writers, FR #2 is 160 pages of pure dance, in a totable, perfect-bound book, printed sustainably by carbon-offset certified printers Hemlock. We've stepped it up for FR#2 and will be releasing an incredible video in conjunction with this edition.
Godwin Merano and Arielle Miralles. Photograph by Karolina Kuras
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Fjord Review #2 features photography by Karolina Kuras, design by Lorenzo Spatocco and is edited by Penelope Ford. As well as publishing in-depth reviews, interviews with stars of the stage and profiles of choreographers that move us, and feature articles for a deep dive into dance, we also have the pleasure of featuring some fantastic guest photographers.
FR#2 will be available through our website soon. Sign up to our newsletter for updates on the release, behind the scenes and more info on this sensational second edition. We are thrilled to be able to work with all our collaborators, and our heartfelt thanks to all who supported this edition! Stay tuned for updates on the launch of FR#2!
The United States is surreal at this moment. Dancers in black have been circling the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., performing Pina Bausch’s “Nelken Line” choreography to protest the self-proclaimed dictator making himself chair of the Center’s board. Choreographers are giving up hopes of National Endowment for the Arts funding now that guidelines demand “patriotic” art.
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Los Angeles-based Heidi Duckler, dubbed “Queen of Site-Specific Dance,” and whose Heidi Duckler Dance is celebrating 40 years of transforming spaces through the power of contemporary movement—kudos!—has stepped aside as artistic director, handing the reigns to associate artistic director, Raymond Ejiofor.
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“Tanz” opens on a ballet class like none I’ve ever attended. Onstage are two portable barres and four dancers in rehearsal clothes stretching and warming up. Eighty-three year old ballerina Beatrice Cordua teaches from a wheelchair, naked.
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John Scott Dance's “Begin Anywhere” started in the middle. A dancer walked to the center of the Irish Arts Center's JL Greene Theatre holding a discman, placed it on the floor, and pressed play.
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