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An encore presentation (aka a rerun) of about a dozen Foot pieces from 2008

January 30, 2009 by Apollinaire Scherr Leave a Comment


Because I won’t have much new to offer in the next few weeks.


u A feature and exclusive interviews with Mikhail Baryshnikov, Wendy Whelan, and Damian Woetzel on Jerome Robbins (April).


u Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Akram Khan’s “Zero Degrees”–a powerfully helpless melancholy in the face of a senselessly violent world (April).


u War dances and a new inertia (May).


u Julian Barnett’s “Sound Memory” and other odes to retro habits (June).


u A cornucopia of New York premieres reviewed: Ratmansky’s “Concerto Dsch” at NYCB, Twyla Tharp’s “Rabbit and Rogue” at ABT, and onetime bad boy Michael Clark at Lincoln Center’s Great Performances (June).


u Neil Greenberg’s inward dances (June).


u Alvin Ailey’s 50th anniversary, from the inside out (by Theresa Ruth Howard, July).


u Jerome Robbins’ controversial “Goldberg Variations,” back and front.


u Lovecat: tribute to kitty love (August)


u Thoughts on Forsythe, the controversy around Veronika Part, and ABT’s Romantic “Giselle”  (August).

u The adored and despised Ann Liv Young, performance artist (October).


u How to watch a Wheeldon ballet (October).


u Antony Tudor, Gillian Murphy, and “Pillar of Fire” (November).


u Being Somebody (on Faye Driscoll’s “837 Venice Blvd,” December).

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is the New York-based dance critic for the Financial Times. She has written regularly for The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Newsday, as well as SF Weekly and the East Bay Express, in the Bay Area. She has contributed to... Read More…

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