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La Vishneva takes on a new role Russian ballerina Diana Vishneva in Frederick Ashton's 1952 "Sylvia"...
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Performance Monkey | 06/30/09@06:01PM

The Nature Of The Beast Why Merce Cunningham's decision to disband his company shouldn't come as a surprise...
lies like truth | 06/30/09@06:35AM

Four Events at American Ballet Theatre As celebrated in Russia as the Mississippi is in America, the mighty Dnieper River has accreted to itself a history, an atmosphere, and a mythology that reaches out to several arts--just as Mark Twain's masterwork, Huckleberry Finn, for example, is...
Seeing Things | 06/28/09@06:48PM

Moon Walker Michael Jackson, dancer...
Foot in Mouth | 06/27/09@06:33PM

How dances disappear Merce Cunningham surprises the world of dance--yet again....
About Last Night | 06/25/09@06:45PM

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Foot in Mouth | 06/25/09@06:19PM

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Performance Monkey | 06/25/09@06:48PM

Dreams, Now and Then George Balanchine's A Midsummer Night's Dream, created for the New York City Ballet in 1962--with co-collaborators William Shakespeare (libretto) and Felix Mendelssohn (music)--is a perennial enchantment....
Seeing Things | 06/23/09@06:54PM

Preserving a legacy What the announcement of Merce Cunnningham's plans for his own legacy tell us about his courage and his faith in technology...
Rockwell Matters | 06/18/09@06:19PM

Thinking Dance Bemused reflections on two perhaps deliberately puzzling dance performances in New York from Robbinschilds and Sarah Michelson....
Rockwell Matters | 06/13/09@06:40AM

Snapshot This week's video: Anna Pavlova dances "The Dying Swan."...
About Last Night | 06/09/09@06:17PM

Spoleto: Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet Benoit-Swan Pouffer, the best name in all of dance....
FlyOver | 06/07/09@06:57AM

Rite of Spring "But first a school," Balanchine is said to have replied to Lincoln Kirstein, when the later was urging him to be the lynchpin in forming a ballet company in the States, intuiting that this choreographer--a genius...
Seeing Things | 06/03/09@06:08PM

Dances to see in New York this month Foot's long short list, plus a short review of the much-anticipated new Ratmansky ballet at ABT...
Foot in Mouth | 06/01/09@06:06PM

Seeing Stars Always an exceedingly star-conscious company, American Ballet Theatre opened its annual spring season (May 18-July 11, at the Metropolitan Opera House) with a pair that would be hard to beat: Caroline Kennedy and America's new First Lady, Michelle Obama, two...
Seeing Things | 05/28/09@05:26AM

Dance, thematically if perhaps spuriously linked A roundup of May dance in New York, all over the map but bound together by an iron logic. Maybe....
Rockwell Matters | 05/25/09@05:10PM

Frankie Manning, "Never Stop Swinging" a half-hour PBS tribute tonight, 10:30 pm EST, to the Lindy Hop master...
Foot in Mouth | 05/21/09@05:44PM

Interior Decorator "Is technique a cause or an effect?", asks Arnold Schoenberg...
PianoMorphosis | 05/21/09@05:31AM

Rising and Falling at the Ann Hamilton Tower The most extraordinary venue for site specific performance I've ever encountered...
lies like truth | 05/18/09@05:45AM

Renovating the House of Atreus "Clytemnestra" can't claim to be among Martha Graham's greatest Greek ventures; it's simply a helluva melodrama, filled with extremes of action, but short on depth, texture, and subtlety of emotion....
Seeing Things | 05/13/09@05:44PM

Some Dance, and a little music Trisha Brown, Stephen Petronio and a clutch of good people at a La MaMa gala, plus Nico Muhly....
Rockwell Matters | 05/09/09@05:31PM

What he gave us Newly cued video--to the original Count Basie score--of the recently-passed Lindy Hop king Frankie Manning in "Hellzapoppin." Shouldn't be missed....
Foot in Mouth | 05/03/09@05:26PM

On the Move Trisha Brown, recently back at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, offered a show that indicates how she's moved from her beginnings to today, in a career that spans five decades....
Seeing Things | 05/01/09@05:13PM

Joe Goode Performance Group: Brilliantly, improbably Zen camp...
Foot in Mouth | 04/28/09@04:24PM






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