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Moonlighting with Pina Bausch: Janet Panetta translates Cecchetti for contemporary dancers.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-MAR-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Moonlighting with Pina Bausch: Janet Panetta translates Cecchetti for contemporary dancers.(TEACH-LEARN CONNECTION)(Biography)

Article Excerpt
The sun filters into the A-frame studio atop Venice's famed, recently renovated opera house, Teatro La Fenice. Today is the "generale," or dress rehearsal, for Pina Bausch's epic, Fur die Kinder von gestern, heute und morgen (For the Children of Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.) The company dancers of varying ages are sprawled around the Zen-like studio, stretching on the floor and at the barre, and chatting quietly. Enter ballet master Janet Panetta. The room erupts with hellos and kisses.

Panetta's home turf is New York, where she operates the Panetta Movement Center. Her classes are attended by dancers from the Merce Cunningham and Trisha Brown companies as well as members of the burgeoning world of new burlesque. But for half the year, she leaves her studio in the capable hands of guest artists and flies to Europe where, among other jobs, she is ballet master (the...

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