Get those kids out of here. “Catwalk models may be getting younger, pop singers may be
pre-pubescent and the images of movie stars may be getting
more perfectly airbrushed but, in the world of modern dance,
wrinkles seem to be the coming thing… A surprising number of recent productions… suggest that
choreographers are finding themselves less entranced by the
perfect limbs of 20-year-olds than by the dramatic and physical
possibilities of bodies that have been lived in. The Guardian And: Worldwide Search on for Over-50s ‘Man
Band’ “Up to 5,000 hopefuls from all around the globe have applied to join an over-50s ‘Man Band’ and
prove to the record industry that pop fans are sick of endlessly cloned boy bands.

The London publicity company 15 Minutes has been deluged with applications from Tokyo to Sydney,
from Bangkok to New York.” Reuters But: The new principal dancer at the Royal Ballet is a 19 year-old wunderkind. BBC