Dance

[Gisooo 3,388]

Jaap Flier (Wiki) a Dutch dancer and choreographer dead at 88

 

[Youth in Asia 1,087]

Michael Flatley reveals his neck and back are in a bad way.

 

Flatley my dear I don't Riverdance.

[YoungWillz 21,076]

Obituary for Sammy Bayes, (IBDB)assistant choreographer on Fiddler On The Roof and choreographer on Godspell: https://obituaries.thedailystar.com/obituary/sammy-bayes-1085215893

 

Those not into musicals may have seen his work here:

 

 

[YoungWillz 21,076]

Been brought to my attention that Bob Lockyer, essentially head of dance programming at the BBC for forty or so years has died aged 80: https://royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/rps_today/news/a-tribute-to-bob-lockyer

 

Partner of the late Sir John Drummond until his death in 2006, Lockyer essentially championed dance on the BBC, particularly with an emphasis on contemporary dance and worked with some of the best choreographers and the Arts Council to keep dance in the public eye. He was awarded an OBE in the New Year's Honours List at the end of 2020.

 

Now for some reason he's listed on IMDB as Bob Lockyear, but I cannot find any reference to him being named thus anywhere else. He is in fact fully named as Robert Lockyer-Nibbs here: https://www.britishtheatreguide.info/news/dance-honours-12763 He has a better resume on the BFI website: https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba0d0197e.

 

IMDB does not have a date of birth, but I've been doing some digging. He had a birthday bash for his 70th on 13 April 2012: https://dancetabs.com/2012/04/bob-lockyers-birthday-bash-london/ and he was definitely born in April 1942 by this Companies House entry: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/JYd5gwRBsKa0miz8BLlXXICREiQ/appointments which ties in with this: https://www.lostdogdance.co.uk/whoweare/boblockyer

 

Think from everything he died on or around 5 June 2022, nothing certainly on Twitter before then.

 

Just in case someone wanted to let IMDB know...

[Ulitzer95 12,668]

41 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

Been brought to my attention that Bob Lockyer, essentially head of dance programming at the BBC for forty or so years has died aged 80: https://royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/rps_today/news/a-tribute-to-bob-lockyer

 

Partner of the late Sir John Drummond until his death in 2006, Lockyer essentially championed dance on the BBC, particularly with an emphasis on contemporary dance and worked with some of the best choreographers and the Arts Council to keep dance in the public eye. He was awarded an OBE in the New Year's Honours List at the end of 2020.

 

Now for some reason he's listed on IMDB as Bob Lockyear, but I cannot find any reference to him being named thus anywhere else. He is in fact fully named as Robert Lockyer-Nibbs here: https://www.britishtheatreguide.info/news/dance-honours-12763 He has a better resume on the BFI website: https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba0d0197e.

 

IMDB does not have a date of birth, but I've been doing some digging. He had a birthday bash for his 70th on 13 April 2012: https://dancetabs.com/2012/04/bob-lockyers-birthday-bash-london/ and he was definitely born in April 1942 by this Companies House entry: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/JYd5gwRBsKa0miz8BLlXXICREiQ/appointments which ties in with this: https://www.lostdogdance.co.uk/whoweare/boblockyer

 

Think from everything he died on or around 5 June 2022, nothing certainly on Twitter before then.

 

Just in case someone wanted to let IMDB know...

Yes sir. Done sir.

[YoungWillz 21,076]

Stuart Marsden, an expert on historical dance who worked as a choreographer on the 21st century Poldark, reportedly dead: 

 

[YoungWillz 21,076]

On 08/06/2022 at 01:49, YoungWillz said:

Been brought to my attention that Bob Lockyer, essentially head of dance programming at the BBC for forty or so years has died aged 80: https://royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/rps_today/news/a-tribute-to-bob-lockyer

 

Partner of the late Sir John Drummond until his death in 2006, Lockyer essentially championed dance on the BBC, particularly with an emphasis on contemporary dance and worked with some of the best choreographers and the Arts Council to keep dance in the public eye. He was awarded an OBE in the New Year's Honours List at the end of 2020.

 

Now for some reason he's listed on IMDB as Bob Lockyear, but I cannot find any reference to him being named thus anywhere else. He is in fact fully named as Robert Lockyer-Nibbs here: https://www.britishtheatreguide.info/news/dance-honours-12763 He has a better resume on the BFI website: https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba0d0197e.

 

IMDB does not have a date of birth, but I've been doing some digging. He had a birthday bash for his 70th on 13 April 2012: https://dancetabs.com/2012/04/bob-lockyers-birthday-bash-london/ and he was definitely born in April 1942 by this Companies House entry: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/JYd5gwRBsKa0miz8BLlXXICREiQ/appointments which ties in with this: https://www.lostdogdance.co.uk/whoweare/boblockyer

 

Think from everything he died on or around 5 June 2022, nothing certainly on Twitter before then.

 

Just in case someone wanted to let IMDB know...

Full Telegraph Obit for Bob Lockyer: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2022/06/17/bob-lockyer-producer-whose-films-established-modern-dance-forefront/

[mollyafox 459]

Bruno 'Pop N Taco' Falcon, a break dancer and choreographer who was featured in the movie Breakin, has died at age 58. Falcon also frequently collaborated with Michael Jackson, appearing in the Smooth Criminal music video. 

[YoungWillz 21,076]

2 hours ago, mollyafox said:

Bruno 'Pop N Taco' Falcon, a break dancer and choreographer who was featured in the movie Breakin, has died at age 58. Falcon also frequently collaborated with Michael Jackson, appearing in the Smooth Criminal music video. 

Quite some deaths from the 80s dance movies. Maybe it’s not as good for you as you’d think.

[TomTomTelekom 3,728]

Tina Ramirez, the founder of the Ballet Hispanico, the most popular Hispanic dance company in the US, died at 92 years:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/09/arts/dance/tina-ramirez-dead.html

[Gisooo 3,388]

Nytimes for Stephanie Dabney (Wiki), American dancer who performed as a prima ballerina with Dance Theatre of Harlem from 1979 through 1994 was 64.

 

Her sister told the press that she died in a nursing home and was living with H.I.V. since 1990. Terrible! 

[YoungWillz 21,076]

British ballerina Patricia Ruanne, former principal with the Royal Ballet and ballet mistress with the London Festival Ballet and the Paris Opera Ballet, reportedly dead aged 77: https://www.gramilano.com/2022/11/patricia-ruanne-has-died-at-77/

[alt obits guy 3,371]

Susan Kikuchi, who staged dances for Martha Graham after having started out as a Graham dancer and who later drove the revivals of the King and I, died November 14th. She was 74.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/28/arts/dance/susan-kikuchi-dead.html

[YoungWillz 21,076]

One of the UK's finest 20th century ballerinas Dame Beryl Grey dead: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/dec/11/beryl-grey-british-ballerina-dies

 

DDP pick straight to QO.

[The Old Crem 3,608]

2 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

One of the UK's finest 20th century ballerinas Dame Beryl Grey dead: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/dec/11/beryl-grey-british-ballerina-dies

 

DDP pick straight to QO.

Was on my Dames team. Sad news RIP. 

[chel 376]

Dance is the child of music, and they can only die together

 

Bulat Ayukhanov, Kazakh ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher, film actor, People's Artist of the Kazakh SSR, died on 13 December at the age of 84.

 

In 1967, Ayukhanov founded the first choreographic miniatures ensemble in the history of arts and culture of Kazakhstan, "The Young Ballet of Alma-Ata". He positioned the ensemble as a company of soloists without the traditional corps de ballet and with almost every dancer having his or her own solo repertoire. In 2003, Ayukhanov's company became the State Academic Dance Theatre of Kazakhstan.

 

Between 1965 and 2010 Ayukhanov created more than thirty ballets to music by Kazakh composers, including productions in Moscow, Montreal, Paris and London.

gattrk.kz gitis.net

[gcreptile 10,979]

Stanley Mills, inventor of the chicken dance, died on the 29th at 91:

https://news.yahoo.com/stanley-mills-man-behind-chicken-141445316.html

[The Old Crem 3,608]

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-riverdance-star-michael-flatley-28931636
Michael Flatley has had surgery for an aggressive cancer.

[OneManJury 84]

2 minutes ago, The Old Crem said:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-riverdance-star-michael-flatley-28931636
Michael Flatley has had surgery for an aggressive cancer.

Bejesus! The man who invented the “stamp those cigarettes out dance”.

[Sir Creep 7,070]

On 01/01/2023 at 09:41, gcreptile said:

Stanley Mills, inventor of the chicken dance, died on the 29th at 91:

https://news.yahoo.com/stanley-mills-man-behind-chicken-141445316.html

1. At best he recorded the tune.  This is a DANCE thread.  He had fuckall to do with the movements of the dance.  Wrong thread, AT BEST!

 

2. He also had fuckall to do with writing the music of the Chicken Dance.  Don’t believe me?  Find his goddamn name ANYWHERE in the Wikipedia entry.  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_Dance
 

SirC

[Ulitzer95 12,668]

1 hour ago, Sir Creep said:

1. At best he recorded the tune.  This is a DANCE thread.  He had fuckall to do with the movements of the dance.  Wrong thread, AT BEST!

 

2. He also had fuckall to do with writing the music of the Chicken Dance.  Don’t believe me?  Find his goddamn name ANYWHERE in the Wikipedia entry.  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_Dance
 

SirC

 

No Goose, he's still very much a cunt, sadly.

[Octopus of Odstock 2,206]

Sir C is right though, Stanley Mills was not the 'inventor' of the Chicken Dance.

[DaDeathGuy 202]

6 minutes ago, Octopus of Odstock said:

Sir C is right though, Stanley Mills was not the 'inventor' of the Chicken Dance.

The real inventor: chickens.

[tracy 2,433]

Tap dancer Arthur Duncan dead at 97. You might have heard the story of Betty White refusing to remove him from her show because of his race in the 1950s.

 

Was a DDP pick last year.

[Ulitzer95 12,668]

46 minutes ago, tracy said:

Tap dancer Arthur Duncan dead at 97. You might have heard the story of Betty White refusing to remove him from her show because of his race in the 1950s.

 

Was a DDP pick last year.

From that article:

"Arthur Chester Duncan was born in Pasadena, Calif., on Sept. 25, 1925. Most biographies say he was born in 1933, a mistake Mr. Duncan didn’t bother to correct. “He never wanted to discuss anything personal give you his real age so you lot wouldn't pick him in the DDP],” his wife said."

Fixed it.