Ballet news roundup: Madonna, Dance Academy movie & engagement!
Welcome ONTD, to another post with a roundup of Ballet news.
We still haven't heard from NYCB about a new director but there are other news going around.
Probably because it opened a year after it opened in Australia, the Dance Academy movie was supposed to hit theaters in the US on March 2nd. A quick search on Fandango just 10 days later tells me no showings are available in most major cities, so I guess no one knew and no one watched it.
However, it will be available for purchase on April 3rd, so get those dvd/bluray copies if you want to see what Tara, Kat, Ben, Christian and Queen Abigail are up to.
If you watched the documentary First Position, you'd remember Michaela, the black dancer from Sierra Leone who had an incredibly difficult childhood at an orphanage. After First Position, Michaela grew into a professional dancer and is currently a Soloist at the Dutch National Ballet. Together with her adoptive mother, she wrote a book about her life, titled Taking Flight. Madonna was just announced as the director of a film adaptation (An ONTD post about that is here).
On an Instagram post, Michaela shared her feelings about working with Madonna:
Following his resignation from American Ballet Theater (amid an accusation of sexual harassment that was not made public or discussed anywhere in the media after that), Mareclo Gomes went quiet on social media. He first resurfaced last week to show sneak peeks at the new work he is choreographing for the Washington Ballet.
But on an Instagram post this weekend, he revealed his proposal to long time partner, Nick Palmquist.
SOURCES: 1 2 3 4 5
Thank you for coming to my Ballet posts ONTD
We still haven't heard from NYCB about a new director but there are other news going around.
Dance Academy: The Movie will hit USA theatres on the 2nd of March, 2018!
— Dance Academy (@DanceAcademyTV) February 12, 2018
Who’s excited???#DanceAcademyMovie
Probably because it opened a year after it opened in Australia, the Dance Academy movie was supposed to hit theaters in the US on March 2nd. A quick search on Fandango just 10 days later tells me no showings are available in most major cities, so I guess no one knew and no one watched it.
However, it will be available for purchase on April 3rd, so get those dvd/bluray copies if you want to see what Tara, Kat, Ben, Christian and Queen Abigail are up to.
Michaela DePrince Is Getting A Biopic—And @Madonna Is Directing It! https://t.co/OXcQDR3LNp
— Pointe Magazine (@pointe_magazine) March 13, 2018
If you watched the documentary First Position, you'd remember Michaela, the black dancer from Sierra Leone who had an incredibly difficult childhood at an orphanage. After First Position, Michaela grew into a professional dancer and is currently a Soloist at the Dutch National Ballet. Together with her adoptive mother, she wrote a book about her life, titled Taking Flight. Madonna was just announced as the director of a film adaptation (An ONTD post about that is here).
On an Instagram post, Michaela shared her feelings about working with Madonna:
Following his resignation from American Ballet Theater (amid an accusation of sexual harassment that was not made public or discussed anywhere in the media after that), Mareclo Gomes went quiet on social media. He first resurfaced last week to show sneak peeks at the new work he is choreographing for the Washington Ballet.
But on an Instagram post this weekend, he revealed his proposal to long time partner, Nick Palmquist.
SOURCES: 1 2 3 4 5
Thank you for coming to my Ballet posts ONTD
While the documentary made me understand a lot about him that I didn’t get before, I’m still bitter that he left the ROH to be in these subpar works that are beneath him.
I sound like a crazy bunhead but it’s honestly true
Me too sis. I would die if I'd see him live performing.
Yes, there's nothing higher than being a principal at the ROH. But the ROH also has the most diverse repertoire, the most amazing new choreography, the most complex new work. So it's not like he got sat on a corner and told "from now on, only Giselle and Swan Lake lol"
And yet, he also got to revive some AMAZING classics and 20th century work. I mean, they had him do Ashton's Marguerite and Armand ffs.
When he left the ROH, for fans it was like a break up so he kinda low key broke my heart and now I'm on that stage of post break up when I look from afar and I'm like damn boy you ended up uncute and messy lol
That and also, someone did some comparison videos of him and Misha and now I'm like omg why did I ever crush on this boy when the king of ballet has always been there for me lmaooooooo
Also I lowkey think Tiler Peck and Zachary Catazaro might be dating, which, pls @god let it be true, he can get it.
I actually love them and I’m genuinely happy for them. I guess no one knows for sure what happened but I’m sad.
Hallberg got injured at the ROH doing Giselle and it was a shoooock omg did you see? It happened during he first act but he finished. Then Kevin OHare had to call Matty Ball and he finished the show. But David says his ankle is doing better than ever and it was just a bad pull at a harmstring and he’ll be back soon. I mostly hope he’s taking care of it now so r can be on the new Swan Lake
It’s exceedingly dramatic but it’s fun and some characters are truly iconic. I mean Abigail tbqh
WE was nothing extraordinary, good, but I watched it once and it was enough.
it was so good though!!
couldshould play father and son on the screen.Not enough Abigail