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Monday December 17

December 17, 2012 by Apollinaire Scherr

Love and the Law, or, what the NRA and public mourning have in common. … [Read more...]

Love and the Law

December 17, 2012 by Apollinaire Scherr

I didn't find out about the Sandy Hook shootings until Friday at 3 pm, when I entered my class at FIT to find my students listening to President Obama's brief address on YouTube. I let them listen, then turned it off.  Later I wondered why I had been in such a rush (not that they minded, it turned out; they'd probably been "processing", as educators like to say about the un-process-able, … [Read more...]

Saturday, December 8:

December 8, 2012 by Apollinaire Scherr

Anna Karenina dancing; plus links to several recent Financial Times reviews … [Read more...]

“Anna Karenina” dancing in a theater near you

December 8, 2012 by Apollinaire Scherr Leave a Comment

I have misgivings about director Joe Wright's treatment of the novel in his new film--how he understands Tolstoy and Anna. But the way the filmmaker animates the drama, with the crucial help of Belgian-Moroccan choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, is absolutely exhilaratingly bold. For anyone wondering how pervasive choreography can be in a serious feature film, this movie is not to be … [Read more...]

Wednesday September 26

September 26, 2012 by Apollinaire Scherr

Brash red and overkill of fluffiness by Valentino, sublime ballets by Balanchine  … [Read more...]

Valentino red, Balanchine light and dark

September 26, 2012 by Apollinaire Scherr Leave a Comment

Valentino's costumes for the fall gala (puffy and ridiculous mainly, making the beautiful women dancers look bulbous and encased and their fine, pointe-clad feet resemble hooves) may have generated the buzz for New York City Ballet this season, but the real excitement was, thankfully, the dances: three programs of pure Balanchine-Stravinsky, the last two of which continue until Sunday. … [Read more...]

Monday September 24:

September 23, 2012 by Apollinaire Scherr

Art and dance together again … [Read more...]

Time, space, and outer space

September 22, 2012 by Apollinaire Scherr Leave a Comment

With the Whitney Biennial's embrace of dance for the first time this spring, with commissions to choreographers Sarah Michelson and Michael Clark, and MoMA following suit next month with some sweet day, a curated series of postmodern premieres, it's fitting that fall began with works that also merged the disciplines. Here's a chunk of my review for the Financial Times of Jason Somma … [Read more...]

Monday September 17:

September 16, 2012 by Apollinaire Scherr

Old style, Soviet style Bollywood, on Wall Street. … [Read more...]

From Russia with love: 1950s Bollywood

September 16, 2012 by Apollinaire Scherr 2 Comments

August's week-long, free, outdoor Downtown Dance Festival has closed every year for the last five with the Indo-American Arts Council's increasingly popular, adventurously curated Erasing Borders show, which combines classical Indian dance with an Indian hybrid-- this year, mid-century Bollywood by way of the Russian provinces. Here's a bit from my Financial Times review of a month ago: The … [Read more...]

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Apollinaire Scherr

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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