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Getting Down With Ailey

December 26, 2012 by 2 Comments
(L to R): Renaldo Gardner, Kirven James Boyd, Samuel Lee Roberts, Aisha Mitchell, Jamar Roberts, Belen Pereyra, Yannick Lebrun, Hope Boykin, Antonio Douthit. Phot: Paul Kolnik

Imagine a night at City Center watching the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater when the spectators cheer at the curtain calls and applaud certain stunning dancers or sections of a dance, but don’t whoop and holler in the middle of a serious (even reverent) passage. Imagine an evening in which electric high jumps, long balances, and legs kicking the sky are worked into the choreographic fabric and not presented with an eye for our approval. The night I’m talking about is one that displayed a world premiere by the extremely up-and-coming … [Read more...]

12/26/12 2:05 PM | filed under: contemporary dance |

What the Funk!

September 1, 2011 by 2 Comments
David Dorfman gives the sign

David Dorfman’s Prophets of Funk might well be subtitled The Way We Were. He first heard Sly and the Family Stone as a college freshman, back in 1973, and no doubt mourned the band’s demise in 1983.  When the Jacob’s Pillow audience gets its first look at Dorfman during the work’s August run there, he’s surely channeling his younger self. Advancing along a diagonal—a bulky man, limber in his loose clothes, strutting and wiggling and kicking high to the boom-boom of  music by Sylvester Stewart (aka Sly Stone)—he’s in heaven. … [Read more...]

09/1/11 4:53 PM | filed under: contemporary dance |

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