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
A PALPABLE HIT
Mark Morris Dance Group / BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, NYC / April 19-23, 2005 This year, the Mark Morris Dance Group brought no brand-new, grand-slam work to its annual season at BAM. The sole novelty was a piece that had its premiere last fall, way west, in Berkeley, California. But it’s a honey. Rock […]
New York City Ballet’s Sofiane Sylve
Sofiane Sylve’s sheer physical vitality feels like an engine that energizes the entire theater, filling it with joy. Village Voice 4/19/05
Peter Boal & Company; Paige Martin and Caitlin Cook
Retiring from the stage in June, Peter Boal, longtime New York City Ballet principal and a bastion of pure classical dancing, appeared with his chamber company for perhaps its final season. . . . Paige Martin and Caitlin Cook: A program curated by pomo dance celebrity Sarah Michelson should have been more striking. Village Voice […]
DANCING DIGITALLY
Trisha Brown Dance Company / Rose Theater, Lincoln Center, NYC / April 13-16, 2005 Celebrating her company’s 35th anniversary and adhering to her ongoing impulse to “make it new,” Trisha Brown devoted the second of the two programs she presented in Lincoln Center’s Great Performers series to recent work. The brand new piece that copped […]
KEEPING GRAHAM GOING
Martha Graham Dance Company / City Center, NYC / April 6-17, 2005 The trouble with Martha Graham is that, alive or dead, the lady can’t be relied on. She is, indisputably, one of the key choreographers in the history of Western dance. The Martha Graham Dance Company’s current City Center season, restricting itself almost entirely […]
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Wonder Women
This article originally appeared in Tutu Revue. Marie Taglioni as the Sylphide There’s a subdivision of feminist thinking that condemns the beloved storybook ballets of the nineteenth century for their ostensible political incorrectness. All those sylphs and Wilis, it maintains, all those maidens suspended in states of enchantment represent women as frail, vulnerable creatures, deprived […]
Beth Soll & Company; Aspen Santa Fe Ballet
Soll herself is unforgettable–as alert, quick, clear, and delicate as a lark. . . . Aspen Santa Fe Ballet appeals with easily accessible choreography, forcefully executed by dancers who are as bright and attractive as the imaginary people in ads selling you vacations. Village Voice 4/4/05
Taglioni’s Shoe: Memory & Memorabilia
I was standing before a glass case — in a museum or library dedicated to theater memorabilia, I think. Or perhaps an exhibition space in an opera house. Where? New York? London? Paris? Can’t recall. When? No idea. Perhaps decades ago. All I remember —