Tanztheater All-Stars
London loves Pina Bausch. The Tanztheater legend is an annual fixture at Sadler’s Wells, and her work still manages to be one of the hottest tickets in town.
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Dancers by Nature
Carolyn Carlson stands as one of the defining figures of contemporary dance. An American visionary shaped by the radical kinetic thinking of Alwin Nikolais in 1960s New York, she arrived in Europe in 1971 as a seismic force, dismantling the rigid hierarchies of the classical world to forge a new...
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Forty Years and No Slowing Down
From its first steps in 1986 as Dundee Rep Dance Company with at the helm, to the present day, Scottish Dance Theatre has sealed it's reputation as a forward-thinking company who pushes the limits of what dance can do.
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The National Ballet of Japan’s annual triple bill of dance, “Ballet Coffret” binged on three neoclassical favorites this year: David Dawson’s “A Million Kisses to my Skin” (2000) Hans van Manen’s “5 Tango’s” (1977) and George Balanchine’s “Themes and Variations” (1947).
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Tend the Garden
The modern classic “Le Parc” by Angelin Preljocaj is a masterpiece that never ceases to interrogate the dialectic of nature and culture, confronting human behaviour as shaped by societal norms or driven by raw emotion.
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Recital Revival
Few established artists hold recitals anymore. The word “recital” feels both elementary and antiquated, evoking either children parading across an auditorium stage or a nineteenth-century drawing room where the gentry whisper secrets around a pianoforte.
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Opposite Week
I caught the New York City Ballet’s two Winter Season premieres last week, and it seems that opposites are still attracting over at the Koch Theater.
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Tears of a Clown
Created in the early sixties, Glen Tetley’s “Pierrot Lunaire” is a rarely revived little dance oddity.
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Steps in Time
The National Ballet of Japan’s annual triple bill of dance, “Ballet Coffret” binged on three neoclassical favorites this year: David Dawson’s “A Million Kisses to my Skin” (2000) Hans van Manen’s “5 Tango’s” (1977) and George Balanchine’s “Themes and Variations” (1947).
Continue ReadingDancers by Nature
Carolyn Carlson stands as one of the defining figures of contemporary dance. An American visionary shaped by the radical kinetic thinking of Alwin Nikolais in 1960s New York, she arrived...
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Tend the Garden
The modern classic “Le Parc” by Angelin Preljocaj is a masterpiece that never ceases to interrogate the dialectic of nature and culture, confronting human behaviour as shaped by societal norms or driven by raw emotion.
Continue Reading
Forty Years and No Slowing Down
From its first steps in 1986 as Dundee Rep Dance Company with at the helm, to the present day, Scottish Dance Theatre has sealed it's reputation as a forward-thinking company who pushes the limits of what dance can do.
Continue Reading
Recital Revival
Few established artists hold recitals anymore. The word “recital” feels both elementary and antiquated, evoking either children parading across an auditorium stage or a nineteenth-century drawing room where the gentry whisper secrets around a pianoforte.
Continue Reading
Crash Out Queens
It’s not often that one gets to hear a soprano recital in an up-close-and-personal setting. And it’s even rarer that said soprano has a pair of dancers moving about the stage as part of the performance.
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The first moments of Risa show the petite Risa Steinberg seated at a sleek desktop in her New York apartment.
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Twenty Years of Los Angeles Ballet
The ballet community in Los Angeles, quite large and scattered, is fond of opining that they live in a “tough town for ballet.”
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A Living Archive
Dance artists and scholars have long asked the same question: how do we document an art form that, by nature, exists in one moment and is gone the next?
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Refuge and Resistance
In a week of humanitarian crisis, of bodies mobilised and menaced, what a privilege it’s been to take refuge in art that radiates integrity, conviction and splendour.
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Opposite Day
George Balanchine famously said, “ballet is woman.” But unusually, in “Kammermusik No. 2,” he featured an all-male corps de ballet. I can think of one other men-only Balanchine dance, and it happens to be running the same week this winter season: “Prodigal Son.”
Continue ReadingIt Takes Two
What makes a good partner? For the dancers of New York City Ballet who are lined up on the stage—KJ Takahashi, Adrian Danchig-Waring, Emma Von Enck, and Sara Mearns—the answer...
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Fated Love
San Francisco Ballet artistic director Tamara Rojo has often said she believes ballet should operate more like Broadway, where shows have previews and work through revisions before the real premiere.
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Line Dancing
In general, one knows exactly what to expect of a Pam Tanowitz piece. There will be deconstructed ballet and modern steps.
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The Two of Us
When I think of the desert, the first impression that comes to mind is of unrelenting heat, stark shadows, the solitude of vast space, occasional winds, and slowness.
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New and Old Stories
Two works, separated by a turn of the century. One, the final collaboration between Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane; the other, made 25 years after Zane’s death.
Continue ReadingRituals of Flesh and Labour
Last December, two works presented at Réplika Teatro in Madrid (Lucía Marote’s “La carne del mundo” and Clara Pampyn’s “La intérprete”) offered different but resonant meditations on embodiment, through memory...
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