By Didi Hoffman Blame it on the Bacchanale. Or rather, celebrate the Bacchanale, danced by the great Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova, whose performance inspired a young American sculptor, Malvina Hoffman, to spend years creating a magnificent frieze of this iconic duet. Hoffman would go on to become “one of the few women to reach first
By Michael Crabb As loyal readers of Dance International know, this magazine used to be printed, quarterly. Rising costs, declining ad revenue, and stagnant sales — reflective of a broad decline in public interest in the dance arts — compelled the magazine’s publishers to make it an exclusively online publication. Thankfully, unlike earlier magazines confronting
By Gerard Davis Keeping active and sociable is vitally important to humans everywhere, including seniors, as the repeated lockdowns of the COVID pandemic have highlighted. In 2011, Bupa (the UK’s largest private healthcare provider) produced Shall We Dance?, a comprehensive report on the subject, which concluded that dance “can benefit both the physical health of