A More Perfect Union
It is a strange time to be celebrating our nation’s milestone birthday, our semiquincentennial.
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Everything Under Control
It’s hard to predict where Hubbard Street Dance Chicago will go next. Literally. Through the repertoire selections presented in the company’s two-week run at the Joyce Theater, the dancers demonstrate a particular aptitude for moving in a way that’s endlessly surprising.
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A Grimm Tale
“The Juniper Tree” is a macabre fairy tale involving three feminine archetypes: mother, stepmother, daughter.
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La Scala Theatre’s ballet season featured a programme offering a snapshot of European choreography from 25 years ago.
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Meryl Tankard, Staying Connected
Meryl Tankard is somewhat of an Aussie dance legend. A choreographer of international renown, her works have been mounted and premiered on prestigious companies ranging from Royal Ballet of Flanders and NDT III in Europe, to the Australian Ballet and Sydney Dance Company in her homeland.
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Moondance
The Mark Morris Dance Group, now celebrating its 45th anniversary, visited the Brooklyn Academy of Music for a quick late-March run with two topical dances that were new to New York: one heavy and one light.
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Everything Under Control
It’s hard to predict where Hubbard Street Dance Chicago will go next. Literally. Through the repertoire selections presented in the company’s two-week run at the Joyce Theater, the dancers demonstrate a particular aptitude for moving in a way that’s endlessly surprising.
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A Grimm Tale
“The Juniper Tree” is a macabre fairy tale involving three feminine archetypes: mother, stepmother, daughter.
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Rewind
La Scala Theatre’s ballet season featured a programme offering a snapshot of European choreography from 25 years ago.
Continue ReadingMeryl Tankard, Staying Connected
Meryl Tankard is somewhat of an Aussie dance legend. A choreographer of international renown, her works have been mounted and premiered on prestigious companies ranging from Royal Ballet of Flanders...
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Moondance
The Mark Morris Dance Group, now celebrating its 45th anniversary, visited the Brooklyn Academy of Music for a quick late-March run with two topical dances that were new to New York: one heavy and one light.
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Simply Red
Do ballet trends bubble up cyclically, or did artistic directors collude to engineer this year’s “Firebird” mania? Suddenly this spring, the flaring-eyed creature immortalized in Stravinsky’s 1910 score is headlining programs at American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, and Dance Theatre of Harlem, almost all at once.
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Theatre-going
“Empreintes” featuring two new creations by Jess & Morgs and Marcos Morau, reads as a choreographic response to Walter Benjamin’s reflections on the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction.
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Objects of Desire
Maurice Béjart would surely have been delighted to see La Seine Musicale’s vast Grande Salle, that striking structure seemingly floating on the river above the Île Seguin, filled for all six March performances of his company’s tour.
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Penn Live Arts presented Rennie Harris’s “Losing My Religion” last week as part of its America Unfinished Series, marking the country’s semiquincentennial.
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Motherhood
Motherhood has often been idealized as the ultimate fulfillment of being a woman. In fact, in many cultures, motherhood is still understood as a woman's basic mission and an inseparable part of her nature.
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Dividing Lines
A gifted satirist, Jane Comfort’s dance theater productions are razor sharp and wickedly indelible. Take, for instance, the evening length “Beauty” (2012), with its robotic Barbie beauty contest.
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Inside the Somatic Field
On the first weekend of spring, Japan Society presented multidisciplinary, avant-garde artist Hiroaki Umeda and his dance ensemble Somatic Field Project in an evening-length program of his latest cutting-edge dance works.
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Red Scares
American Ballet Theatre typically holds court in NYC twice a year. Their Summer Season at the Metropolitan Opera House features classical narrative full-lengths, and the Fall Season at the Koch Theater showcases edgier, short-form works.
Continue ReadingFor Love or Money
Unlikeable humanity in a rapacious society, Kenneth MacMillan’s “Manon” hits the zeitgeist—again. Recently staged by the National Ballet of Japan, it’s a stunning testimony to the ballet’s relevance across time...
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Disorderly Dance
An ambitious yet flawed work, “Dis-order,” seen last week at the Skirball Cultural Center, was described in the program notes as a “communal ritual, and a family drama that asks what forces move through us when we enact an ancient spring rite, and what is left unspoken when we gather around the table.”
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Intimacy on the Knife-edge
Crystal Pite is a connoisseur of the ensemble, with a forte for spotlighting the humanity of the collective, from the tight-knit flock to the anonymised mass.
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In her Stride, Alicia Graf Mack
Once referred to as the “Rolls-Royce of American dance,” Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, founded in 1958 by Alvin Ailey, continues to live up to that plaudit.
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Dancing the Body Politic
Ranjini Nair wears a few hats. Trained as a classical dancer in her native New Delhi by gurus Seetha Nagajothy, Jayarama Rao, and Vanashree Rao, she later found herself deep within the world of academia.
Continue ReadingIona Kewney: Goddess and Alchemist
It's with great sadness that we learned a couple of nights ago of the untimely passing of dance artist Iona Kewney.
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