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2008.07.05: Apollinaire, Saturday July 5:
2008.07.05: What I like about him
2008.06.19: GO: Neil Greenberg at Dance Theater Workshop (only through Saturday)
2008.06.17: We like her, we really, really like her
2008.06.11: Apollinaire, Wednesday June 11:
2008.06.11: Ballet Miscellany
2008.06.09: Coming soon (I hope)...
2008.06.02: June 1, Apollinaire:
2008.06.02: Julian Barnett's "Sound Memory" and other odes to retro habits at La Mama Moves
2008.05.17: Saturday May 17, Apollinaire:
2008.05.17: GO: Eleanor Bauer's "At Large"
2008.05.10: May 10, Lori Ortiz and Apollinaire:
2008.05.10: "Far," "tanks under trees," other war dances, and the new Inertia Movement
2008.05.09: May 9, Apollinaire:
2008.05.09: On the other hand, "Dybbuk": the flipside of "Watermill"
2008.05.06: Tuesday May 6, Apollinaire:
2008.05.05: Milling around in "Watermill"
2008.05.04: Sunday, May 4, Apollinaire, Paul, and Claire Willey:
2008.05.04: What's going on?
2008.04.25: Friday, April 25, Apollinaire:
2008.04.25: Robbins Celebration at City Ballet: Exclusive interviews with Baryshnikov, Wendy Whelan, and Damian Woetzel on the man and his dances
2008.04.22: Tuesday April 22, Apollinaire:
2008.04.22: GO: Akram Khan and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's "zero degrees"
2008.04.19: April 19, Apollinaire:
2008.04.19: GO: Miami City Ballet on Long Island
2008.04.16: Wednesday April 16, Apollinaire:
2008.04.16: GO: The Kirov does Forsythe (with UPDATE)
2008.04.09: April 9, Apollinaire:
2008.04.09: April 7, Andy Podell:
2008.04.09: GO: Nrityagram Dance Ensemble
2008.04.06: Foreign report: My friend Andy on the Kirov's Fokine program
2008.04.02: Wednesday April 2, Apollinaire:
2008.04.02: Olesia Novikova: check her out
2008.03.28: Friday, March 28, Apollinaire:
2008.03.28: Thursday, March 27, Apollinaire:
2008.03.28: GO: Emanuel Gat does Mozart
2008.03.27: GO: Puppets, here, there, and on Long Island
2008.03.23: Macaulay Watch: The chief Times dance critic is getting better (REVISED Monday)
2008.03.13: GO? St. Petersburg Ballet Theatre's "Carmen"
2008.03.08: Mark Morris's "King Arthur": I didn't like it.
2008.02.29: GO: Paul Taylor at City Center (Updated Saturday)
2008.02.28: GO-- to Long Island or New Jersey for the Perm Tchaikovsky Ballet's "Romeo and Juliet"
2008.02.22: GO: Juliette Mapp at Danspace Project
2008.02.13: Go: Ronald K. Brown at the Joyce this week
2008.02.11: The second coming of... (plus--added Wednesday--the farewells of...)
2008.02.07: One of Queens' best-kept secrets...
2008.02.03: Trisha Brown even works hard at interviews
2008.01.25: Time for modern dance to admit its age
2007.12.29: January dances in New York (addition, 1/4)
2007.12.23: GO? "Overall, this show is a wow," reports Eva Yaa Asantewaa on "Tango Fire." Plus, a tardy YAY for Full Circle's "Innaviews" at Dance Theater Workshop
2007.12.17: Divided and conquered: the Argentine tango
2007.12.11: More on us curmudgeonly dance critics (Wednesday night: Eva responds. Scroll down)
2007.12.09: Is it fun or is it work? (With more! Monday noon)
2007.12.06: GO: Robbinschilds at P.S. 122
2007.12.04: Matthew Neenan, Pennsylvania Ballet's terrific resident choreographer. Plus, a note on Performa 07.
2007.12.01: "A haunted happening in the shadow of our transience"--Toni Bentley on Nureyev. (Updated again Tuesday. Scroll down)
2007.11.30: Who woulda thought? A lovely Bejart ballet
2007.11.28: Pennsylvania Ballet's Romantic "Serenade"
2007.11.22: She nails it: Jennifer Homans on the Nureyev bio
2007.11.21: Go: Peter Martins' "Grazioso" at New York City Ballet's fall gala
2007.11.20: Blame Canada
2007.11.20: What about a dramaturge? A yucky word but a fine idea
2007.11.18: Have choreographers forgotten their audience?
2007.11.15: Freaky unison
2007.11.12: No one wants to play the rube
2007.11.04: Walking the line
2007.10.19: To make up for all the schadenfreude: a smart review of the Nureyev bio
2007.10.15: The British Guardian borrows our ideas. (You're welcome!)
2007.10.11: GO: Amalia Hernandez's Ballet Folklorico de Mexico
2007.10.10: Shimmyblogger Natalia: We don't need no Pavarotti, we need a Michael Jordan. The Foot crew responds.
2007.10.10: Forget Pavarotti, let's do Pavlova!
2007.10.04: Dance films in which the film knows what to do with the dance: reader recommendations (UPDATE SATURDAY)
2007.09.29: The Pavarotti of dance? More readers respond! YAY! (and we respond to the responses)
2007.09.25: Bloggers on Macaulay: turns out to be a nice man!
2007.09.22: Apropos of popularizing dance...
2007.09.21: The Pavarotti of dance? If only Michael Jackson ...
2007.09.21: GO (SF Bay Area edition): Chris Black's "Pastime" in the parks
2007.09.17: Where's our Pavarotti? Readers respond (UPDATED WEDNESDAY NIGHT)
2007.09.13: GO: Martha Graham Dance Company at the Joyce (UPDATE Sunday: Eva Yaa Asantewaa responds)
2007.09.07: A Pavarotti for dance?
2007.09.02: Dance onscreen that trumps dance onstage
2007.08.28: Nureyev as a young star on PBS this week...
2007.08.25: What's the pity? Eva Yaa Asantewaa reviews the site specific "Accounting for Customs" and the Times dance chief's review. Apollinaire responds.
2007.08.12: What's so hard about getting dance to "sing" on TV
2007.08.04: Ah, summer in New York!
2007.08.03: Scant
2007.07.26: Down, down on the right...
2007.07.26: Jews and chairs (with snarky comment by Countercritic, Apollinaire's sober response and another Israeli chair example from Eva)
2007.07.22: Wendy Perron, Dance Magazine Chief, and Swan Lake Samba Girl Tonya Plank respond to ABT's "Sleeping Beauty" problem and promise
2007.07.18: What American Ballet Theatre might do about its new "Sleeping Beauty"
2007.07.16: Coming Soon
2007.07.13: For the heat: the quasi-mojo
2007.07.10: Tap Talk on the Radio!
2007.07.08: Ladies Who Launch
2007.07.07: How's the New York Times dance chief doing? Readers respond
2007.07.04: "Cinderella" at American Ballet Theatre and Macaulay at the Times
2007.07.01: Dance on screen can too get you hooked! argues Tonya Plank
2007.06.27: Why opera gets the crowds that ballet can only covet, revisited (with added call out to readers from Apollinaire, at end)
2007.06.20: GO: The Oakland Dance Festival
2007.06.15: Theresa Ruth Howard reports on Dance/NYC's Race and Dance forum (with response from Baraka Sele, July 2)
2007.06.14: Elsewhere
2007.06.12: GO: Noche Flamenca, plus protocol
2007.06.12: Foot In Mouth
2007.06.09: Apollinaire Scherr
2007.06.09: GO: Ohad Naharin's "Decadance," performed by Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet
2007.06.08: A small epiphany about ABT's "The Sleeping Beauty," plus June plans
2007.06.07: Ballet Alert: Something we can agree on
2007.06.04: Sleeping Beauty wakes up a little creaky, but wait till she's had some coffee!
2007.05.29: Guess who was on the radio recently?
2007.05.24: Ballet is TOO sophisticated! Is NOT!
2007.05.19: Why does opera get the crowds and ballet doesn't? Part Two
2007.05.19: Go: Doug Varone's "Dense Terrain"
2007.05.18: GO: American Ballet Theatre's "The Sleeping Beauty"
2007.05.16: Tonya Plank: Why do my friends clamor for opera, but not ballet?
2007.05.11: GO: Keo Woolford in "I Land"
2007.05.07: Go: Mark Morris directing Gluck's "Orfeo ed Euridice" at the Met
2007.05.05: Contact me
2007.05.01: Wise Words
2007.04.30: Nothing Festival Web reviews
2007.04.26: Eva Yaa Asantewaa: More Ado about a Lot
2007.04.23: Tonya Plank: More reflections on the Nothing Festival [expanded version, Monday 11 pm]
2007.04.21: GO: Jennifer Allen's "Open" at the Kitchen
2007.04.20: Doug Fox: Skip the Funders--and go direct to the Internet [revised, Friday night]
2007.04.20: Readers respond to thoughts on the Nothing Festival
2007.04.19: GO: Dean Moss at the Nothing Festival, plus thoughts on "nothing"
2007.04.18: GO: Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal
2007.04.12: Baggy thoughts on money, faith, and art (revised)
2007.04.02: It's a girl, it's a boy, it's an InfiniteBody!
2007.03.28: Paul Parish: More on the scary, sexy power of Matthew Bourne's swans
2007.03.25: Mob Mentality
2007.03.21: GO: Tamango's Urban Tap
2007.03.21: Apollinaire: All--or Kinda--Quiet on the Foot Front
2007.03.10: New York choreographer Clare Byrne: Sticking it out
2007.03.08: The beat goes on...
2007.02.27: Reader Tonya Plank: claims of sexism in the dance world not off-the-wall
2007.02.22: Former Times head dance critic John Rockwell responds to Apollinaire's grumblings
2007.02.20: Laura Bleiberg of the Orange County Register: I'm disappointed, too
2007.02.17: A reader responds: You're nuts. Apollinaire responds. Postscript from Paul Parish. [UPDATED Feb. 25 with summary of vaporized comments]
2007.02.16: Leading "the girls"
2007.02.12: No, I really do like comments....
2007.02.09: Paul Parish: I concede. On the other hand, quality-time-with-your-own-mind fits too conveniently into niche marketing
2007.02.08: We interrupt this program....
2007.02.08: Marc Etlin: Do we really want to return to the monoculture of Christianity--especially since we've never quite left it?
2007.02.07: Paul Parish responds: We don't want no reality TV
2007.02.07: We interrupt this program....
2007.02.06: Apollinaire: chorus, corps, reality TV and the forgotten modernist project. With response from Paul Parish.
2007.02.06: Paul Parish: more on the lost worlds of "Liebeslieder" and "Serenade"--of Germany and Shakespearean Tempest-tossed lands
2007.02.05: Brian Seibert and Apollinaire: Weeping over the lost worlds of "Liebeslieder Walzer"; plus, does a ballet corps distil or diffuse?
2007.02.04: Apollinaire: This or that--picking favorites among Balanchine wonders
2007.01.22: Apollinaire: Making megabuck ballets better [plus-- hot off the presses!--dialogue with choreographer and dance critic Leigh Witchel!]
2007.01.10: Apollinaire: Protocol
2006.12.30: Paul: "The Nutcracker" and the family circle
2006.12.29: Eva responds to Clare Byrne: Yes! to art that sheds our usual selves
2006.12.19: Apollinaire: neighbors Doug and John over at Diacritical
2006.12.14: Apollinaire: the critics of the critics of the critics
2006.12.13: An arts consultant responds: The Time Out survey is "deplorable"
2006.12.09: Apollinaire: the critics critiqued (with new, incendiary commentary!)
2006.12.08: Apollinaire: We interrupt this program...
2006.11.29: Choreographer Clare Byrne: Taking pleasure in the dire situation of professional dance
2006.11.28: Free link to dance-dies-in-America article, with more commentary
2006.11.27: Apollinaire: Holiday lists of dances you almost loved
2006.11.25: Another cheery take on the state of dance in America
2006.11.19: The dirt on "underground"
2006.11.17: Odd and ends: comments from readers and a question to readers
2006.11.17: A choreographer comes forward: "I have made a dance to Dylan."
2006.11.10: Apollinaire: Sweet Dylan Suite
2006.11.10: Eva Yaa Asantewaa: Tales of the Crypt
2006.11.09: Rachel Howard, regular contributor to the San Francisco Chronicle, responds to "How NOT to write, So Dance Will Matter"
2006.11.08: Doug Fox: So, um, what about my question? Apollinaire tries harder this time
2006.11.05: How NOT to Write, So Dance Will Matter
2006.11.01: A reader asks: if we think of a performance as a cover, do we fail to acknowledge its unique nature? Apollinaire responds
2006.10.31: Reader Amy Reusch asks: aren't all ballets by now-dead choreographers "covers"? Apollinaire answers.
2006.10.30: A choreographer responds: No, writers aren't the enemy
2006.10.29: Apollinaire responds to Eva's "The Night Juliette Mapp Broke My Heart" (the post just below)
2006.10.29: Eva Yaa Asantewaa: The Night Juliette Mapp Broke My Heart
2006.10.27: Apollinaire: Call out to choreographers: How about a Dylan dance lovefest to chase away the Twyla Tharp blues? Eva responds. Apollinaire responds to the response
2006.10.26: Apollinaire responds: good and bad violence in dance
2006.10.25: Reader asks and Eva Yaa Asantewaa responds: Is modern dance made for masochists?
2006.10.23: Apollinaire: check out the comments column...
2006.10.22: Eva Yaa Asantewaa
2006.10.22: Eva Yaa Asantewaa: Soothing Our Nerves
2006.10.19: Paul Parish
2006.10.19: Paul Parish: the allegory of fairy tale, past and present
2006.10.19: Apollinaire: GO
2006.10.16: Paul Parish, with preface by Apollinaire: rhythm radio frequency
2006.10.16: Apollinaire, with help from Amy Reusch: a few preliminary questions on fairy tale ballets
2006.10.15: Apollinaire: I meant it as a metaphor...
2006.10.11: "That freaky stuff"--Verizon repairman on modern dance
2006.10.10: Lea Marshall responds: the call and response between writer and dance
2006.10.09: Brian Seibert responds to "The Frame Game": why to leave the "I" out
2006.10.08: yoohoo
2006.10.06: Annie-B responds: we can be still to call attention to motion
2006.10.05: Marc Etlin: Give arrhythmia a chance
2006.10.04: from Paul: Kinesthetic Identification and why I write
2006.10.03: The Frame Game
2006.10.02: tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow...
2006.10.01: Annie-B: rhythm among the elements
2006.10.01: Paul: Holly
2006.10.01: Paul Parish responds
2006.09.30: second response, from Annie-B Parson
2006.09.28: First response, from writer Paul Parish
2006.09.26: Why Foot in Mouth?
2006.09.26:
2006.03.24: Wednesday, March 12, Apollinaire and Eva:
2006.03.14: Saturday, March 8, Apollinaire:

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Apollinaire, Saturday July 5: Neil Greenberg's surface unconscious

Apollinaire, Wednesday June 11: Premieres by the Bolshoi's Alexei Ratmansky, Twyla Tharp, and Michael Clark--lot o' thoughts

June 1, Apollinaire: The memories that unwind from the ritual of cassettes in Julian Barnett's brilliant "Sound Memory"

Saturday May 17, Apollinaire: Eleanor Bauer's refreshing and expansive "At Large"

May 10, Lori Ortiz and Apollinaire: war dances and the new Inertia Movement

May 9, Apollinaire: Robbins' "Dybbuk," flipside of "Watermill"

Tuesday May 6, Apollinaire: The unbearably anxious "Watermill"

Sunday, May 4, Apollinaire, Paul, and Claire Willey: What's going on with the loss of so many critics?

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