The News Review:
- Batsheva founder remembers road to ‘Deca Dance’
- GALFLASHES AND MAJR INCIDENTS (all times BST)
- Give moms a tax break says ANC
- Ambush at the River of Secrets
- When staging is Deadly
- B-School Beach Reading
Batsheva founder remembers road to ‘Deca Dance’
Charleston Post Courier – May 28, 2007
Naharin a native of Israel who lives in Tel Aviv where his company is based remembers his last trip to Spoleto in the early ’80s when he danced at the College of Charleston’s Cistern with the Joyce Tristler Dance Company. “It was on a stage outdoors underneath the enormous trees with the stars peering through the branches and it was quite beautiful” the founder and artistic director of the 20-member Batsheva troupe said in a phone interview. f his urge to make dance his profession Naharin says “All of my life I have been attracted to physical movements; what the body can do and the connection between effort and pleasure. I was very lucky in that I inherited a lithe flexible body like a present from my parents and so dance came naturally to me. “Naharin who was performing with a troupe in Israel after his service in the Israeli army was spotted by the icon of modern dance Martha Graham who invited him to come to New York to dance with her company. “It was 1975 and Miss Graham was quite old even then. I didn’t really find her work a challenge and only danced with her group for 10 months” he says… “It was 1975 and Miss Graham was quite old even then. I didn’t really find her work a challenge and only danced with her group for 10 months” he says. “My big break came when I was admitted on scholarship to the School of American Ballet started of course by the great (George) Balanchine and that’s where I learned classical ballet” says Naharin 54. His expertise was noticed by someone from the dance program at The Juilliard School who invited him to study dance there for a year in a special classical program. After a stint with troupes in Europe where he joined the Maurice Bejart Company in Brussels for a season he returned to New York and made his choreographic debut in 1980 in the Kazuko Hirabayashi studio. After performing and choreographing with various groups for 12 years he and his wife returned to Israel where he became the artistic director of Batsheva 17 years ago. His wife dancer Mari Kajiwara died of cancer in 2001.
GALFLASHES AND MAJR INCIDENTS (all times BST)
BBC News – May 28, 2007
"The Derby half of Wembley is in rapture with Billy Davies leading the celebrations. Things are unsurprisingly a lot quieter in the West Brom end but the Baggies players have stayed on the pitch and are applauding what remains of their fans. " BBC Sport’s Chris Bevan at Wembley1653: Billy Davies is punching the air like a loon as his players dance with delight cavorting around hugging each other. Justice for a team that finished third. "The game panned out exactly as I thought. Derby’s extra work-rate was the difference" Five Live analyst Steve Claridge1652: FULL-TIME Derby 1-0 West Brom The corner is cleared the final whistle goes and Derby are in the Premiership… 1636: Kevin Phillips hooks a deflected corner on goal but the ball came off his left arm in the build up. Stephen Bywater saves the effort anyway. 1635: Albion crowd out Giles Barnes on the byeline and break. Nathan Ellington is played in at the other end but he fails to get the ball out from under his feet quick enough and his hurried shot is weak. "Giles Barnes is getting it in the ear now from Bily Davies who wants him to push forward with Steve Howard and keep an eye on Jonathan Greening at the same time – or that how it seems anyway. Either way Davies is not happy. "Tony Mowbray’s also out in his technical area but he hasn’t taken his hands out of his pockets since Derby scored – maybe he has got something special in there to turn this game around?" BBC Sport’s Chris Bevan at Wembley1633: West Brom win a free-kick on halfway as Tyrone Mears slides in and concedes a free-kick.
Give moms a tax break says ANC
Independent nline – May 28, 2007
Addressing MPs during the national Treasury’s budget vote ANC MP Joan Fubbs argued that corporate tax had already been reduced by 50 percent. “Being a dancer I thought to myself are we now going to ask these corporate captains to attempt the underbelly of the Lambada dance? I am appealing to the minister of finance do not add that physical burden to our poor corporate captains allow them to enjoy their whisky” Fubbs said to much laughter. She was responding to an earlier appeal from the Inkatha Freedom Party for lower corporate tax. But Fubbs argued against the lowering of corporate tax saying more had to be done to help women rear children to become responsible tax-paying citizens. “I call it the unpaid labour tax” she said calling for government to spend more money on supplying facilities that would allow children to be brought up in a safe environment.
Ambush at the River of Secrets
CNN International – May 28, 2007
SPRAN: We all had the sense of frustration that comes when you feel like you’re fighting a ghost. And so whenever we got an opportunity to actually go in and fight somebody we looked forward to it. FREMAN: The group looks forward to any break from the tedious dangerous work: an impromptu dance by the always fun-loving and optimistic Jesse Strong a wild ride in an Iraqi police car that the platoon had to move from one place to another. They blow the siren at the empty desert and laugh endlessly. Even Halloween is improvised anything to relieve the crushing schedule of work and danger. DREANY: We were in the country 217 days and we did 222 missions. FREMAN: When a slightly built quiet young man named Karl Linn transfers to the platoon Weaver writes in his journal again: “I asked to have him in my fire team because I wanted some young lackey that would follow my orders without any complaining.
When staging is Deadly
Telegraph.co.uk – May 28, 2007
Is it because the piece is just too concentrated too stylistically complex and too baffling in the way it divides the audience’s attention between the worldly singing Anna and her naïve dancing sister? I don’t know but staging always seems to over-egg the pudding. I’ve only seen it work in concert or on record. Welsh National pera’s production in collaboration with Wales’s modern dance company Diversions doesn’t break the mould. According to an interview in the programme with its director Roy Campbell-Moore the intention is to show humans so corrupted by “decadent anarchy” that they become insects but you could have fooled me – all I saw was 12 dancers rushing about in a state of unfocused erotic hysteria tearing each other’s clothes off. Too much energy is expended to no clear purpose. Nor is there any sense of the odyssey that Anna and her sister make through the junk spaces of capitalism. Jonathan Adams’s ugly abstract set furnished only with some broken masonry would be better suited to a low-budget Rheingold and Paul Shriek’s costumes don’t even have the camp swagger that his surname might lead one to hope for.
B-School Beach Reading
BusinessWeek – May 28, 2007
Baker adds that Govindarajan also helped students think of strategy in a way they never thought possible. You might want to read the book for its interesting take on how to steer innovative projects. ne warning: The book is based on case studies which some B-school students might want to avoid when on break from class. The Blame Game"I’m right and you’re wrong. " If you’ve heard that one before then you might want to take the advice of Peter Rodriguez a professor at the. Written by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson this is a book about self-deception that will show why people like to be right and refuse to own up to mistakes… "I’m excited to read this book for inspiration on ideas to transform management education because leadership is indeed about certain mindsets about asking courageous questions and seeing new possibilities" she writes. Buck’s personal reading list was one of the most interesting and varied that BusinessWeek received. It even included Capoeira: Roots of the Dance-Fight Game (North Atlantic Books 2002) by Nestor Capoeira about capoeira an African-Brazilian movement that combines dance and martial arts. Buck wasn’t the only one with unique books on the nightstand. While seemingly everyone else is going to see that ever-popular pirate movie in theaters Darden’s Rodriguez will curl up with The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down (Harcourt May 2007). Unlike the movie this book is a work of non-fiction about real pirates. "Adventures and adventurers like these don’t seem to exist anymore but the challenge of creating order where there is none still does" writes Rodriguez.