The boys of Les Ballets Grandiva, more than equal to many a classical practitioner playing it straight, are back at Symphony Space, on New York’s Upper West Side, April 12-17.
Archives for May 2005
Chunky Move
Tense Dave’s neighbors (or fantasies) include an elegant sadist, a nightgowned damsel with extravagant suicidal impulses, a languid lady given to enacting the scenarios of Victorian bodice rippers, and a creepy fellow who does nasty things to small creatures in his spare time. Village Voice 5/31/05
Momix
The ever-popular Momix, an offspring of the even more popular Pilobolus, is at the Joyce again, May 22 – June 10, featuring a program of its Greatest Hits. Two years ago I had this to say about their antics.
THE BOURNONVILLE FESTIVAL, LOOKING BACK
2005 is the 200th birthday of August Bournonville, the dancer, choreographer and ballet master who gave the Royal Danish Ballet its distinctive profile. To mark the occasion, the company has organized the 3rd Bournonville Festival, which will take place in Copenhagen, June 3-11. All of the Bournonville ballets that are still danced today will be […]
Nrityagram Dance Ensemble; Andrea E. Woods/Souloworks
Dare I say that the show sometimes seems unreal in its surface perfection, as if the irregularities and ambiguities that make art and life profound had yielded to Disneyfication? (Nrityagram); Andrea E. Woods may be essentially a solo performer–as Souloworks, the punning title of her enterprise, indicates–but she has a steady partner in the rhythmically […]
STAYING POWER
Jock Soto retires from the New York City Ballet’s stage on June 19 at the age of 40, after 25 years with the company. For the latter part of that period he has been extolled as a partner—as if that were his main (even sole) virtue, as was, essentially, the case with the company’s Conrad […]
ON WITH THE NEW!
New York City Ballet / New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, NYC / April 26 – June 26, 2005 One way or another, gala programs must be striking. This season, the New York City Ballet’s boldly shunned both Balanchine and Robbins, the guys who give the company its raison d’être, for five new additions to […]
Pam Tanowitz Dance
The choreography evolves from walking to whirling, from moves as plain as street signs to the complex body language of emotional enigmas. Village Voice 5/5/05