| Courier News Online - MADISON: NJ Dance holds auditions
New Jersey Dance Theatre Ensemble will hold auditions for its summer intensive 10:30 a.m. to noon March 18 in the dance studios at the Simon Forum & Athletic Center at Drew University, 26 Madison Ave. The summer intensive is for serious dancers ages 7-18 and will run July 16 to Aug. 3 at Drew University. An audition fee of $25 is required.
New Jersey Dance Theatre Ensemble is a nonprofit, pre-professional company that offers training in classical ballet and modern dance.
For more information and audition appointments, e-mail intensive2007@njdte.org or call (908) 232-0114. For more about the company, visit www.njdte.org.
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Founder of National Ballet created 'extraordinary legacy'
OTTAWA - Celia Franca, the founder and longtime artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada, died Monday in hospital in Ottawa. She was 85. Ms. Franca, one of the most gifted British dancers of her generation, came to Canada 56 years ago, when ballet was almost unknown in this country. Today, largely through her efforts, the country has one of the world's premiere ballet companies, the National Ballet. Ballet companies, large and small, dot the cultural landscape. Ms. Franca had been ailing for more than a year, since suffering the first of several falls, breaking vertebrae and forcing her to spend her last months largely confined to bed. .
Secrets of Nijinsky
In December 1917, Vaslav Nijinsky, at that time the most celebrated male dancer in the Western world, moved into a villa in St. Moritz with his wife, Romola, and their three-year-old daughter. His relations with Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, the company in which he had made his name, were now severed, and with a war on, it was impossible for him to seek other engagements. So he and Romola had decided to retreat to neutral Switzerland and wait for peace. By the time of the armistice, however, Nijinsky had begun to go insane. His famous diary, written in six and a half weeks, from January 19 to March 4, 1919, was the record of his thoughts as that was happening. To my knowledge, it is the only sustained, on-the-spot (not retrospective) written account, by a major artist, of the experience of entering psychosis.
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