Impelled by her unabashedly maverick imagination, Cathy Weis melds dance, video, and the fact that she has multiple sclerosis into haunting theater pieces. Village Voice 2/22/05
Elisa Monte Dance; Configuration
Monte’s choreography is handsome and functional, but all her devices remain standard; on the Configuration program, only Harrison McEldowney’s “At the End of the Road” offered genuine joy and wit. Village Voice 2/22/05
RoseAnne Spradlin
I guess RoseAnne Spradlin has death on her mind. Village Voice 2/8/05
STAR TURN
Stars of the 21st Century / New York State Theater, NYC / February 14, 2005 Dance fans are familiar with gala bits-and-pieces programs that showcase the more obvious gifts of a company’s stars. Stars of the 21st Century, which has become an annual affair, goes the formula one better by assembling its players from an […]
OTHER PEOPLE’S “GATES”
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Gates, Central Park, New York, 1979-2005 / February 12-27, 2005 The Gates, which I wrote about last week, will begin its vanishing act on Monday (February 27). This weekend offers a last chance to visit Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s installation—for the first time or once more. Following are a few of the […]
GATED COMMUNITY
Daffodils, a lusty perennial, are blooming again in my backyard–New York’s Central Park. “The Gates,” the Christos’ 2005 one-off, lingers there as a brilliant memory.
Eighth Annual Japanese Contemporary Dance Showcase
The strongest works demonstrated an international outlook, incorporating much Western influence while retaining a stylization and emotional obliqueness characteristic of Asian art. Village Voice 1/25/05
De Facto Dance
In Beginnings, they pace, twist, run, tumble, crawl, and pose in photo-op freeze-frames, intermittently spoofing the pretensions that can attach themselves to the creation of a dance. Village Voice 1/14/05
Yanira Castro + Company
The curtains fly up—as at a peep show—to reveal a wraithlike figure clad only in panties and a gauzy robe that suggests flayed skin. Village Voice 1/11/05
Lionel Popkin & Andy Russ
A shared program by Andy Russ and Lionel Popkin offered excursions to the studio and the kitchen (with adjoining bedroom). Village Voice 1/11/05