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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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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It 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 is different, though together, their responses create a pretty comprehensive prescription. A good partner should be collaborative, honest, present, and...
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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.”
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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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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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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.”
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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.
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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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Feathers Flying
In a world where Tchaikovsky meets Hans Christian Andersen, circus meets dance, ducks transform and hook-up with swans, and of course a different outcome emerges.
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Half the Sky
Mao Zedong’s famous statement that women hold up half the sky may sound poetic and even liberating.
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Agile Masculinity
The men are already on stage when the audience filters into the theater. Some stand stretching at the ballet barres, aligned in neat rows, and others move around, jumping, swinging their legs, lunging.
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Dance Dance Revolution
The questions that the choreographic duo known as Baye & Asa set out to answer in their in-progress work, “At the Altar” may or may not be rhetorical: Who or what do we worship? How do we worship? Who are the righteous? Who are the blasphemous?
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On the rear wall of New York Live Arts’ black box theater, two grids of a dozen headlamps each resemble the glaring light towers of a sports arena.
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Folk Tales from Abroad
Two productions in one, “World Tales in Dance,” was a charming, crowd-pleasing afternoon of dance theatre.
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Saints and Sinners
In Jo Warren’s “All Mouth,” five dancers perform what could be an action scene from a movie with the playback speed slowed down and sound turned off.
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Weaving the Story
The Pioneers Go East Collective's Out-Front! Festival highlights “radical queer art + dance,” making it a perfect resident festival for the historic Judson Memorial Church.
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Life, Death, Little Deaths, and a New Year Too
Dominica Greene makes snow angels in a small pool of light. As the audience chatter at Danspace Project quiets down, she revs to life. Rocking and talking about a rickety fan found in her grandparents’ house in Guyana, her shakes and shudders illustrate the pleasure her body derives from the appliance’s particular rhythm.
Continue ReadingDancing and Screaming Against the Sky
“Profanations,” created by choreographer Faustin Linyekula and music artist Franck Moka, is not a “just” dance piece: it’s a live concert, a cinematic séance.
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