The nostalgia factor looms large in Come Dance Me a Song, evoking a time when we were happier than we are now. Village Voice 8/30/04
ABDUCTING MOZART
Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker/Rosas / LaGuardia Concert Hall, NYC / August 25, 27, and 28, 2004 Mostly Mozart is looking to update its image. The annual summer festival at Lincoln Center, now in its 38th year, and its second under a new director, Louis Langrée, has ventured beyond pure concert work to what it terms—adopting […]
WITHOUT WHOM
Mark Morris Dance Group / New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, NYC / August 19 and 21, 2004 Typical Mark Morris! His company gets invited (for the third year running) to perform in Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival—where dancers rarely tread—and he weighs in with a program of four pieces, not a single one of […]
Universal Ballet of Korea
By far the most agreeable part of the Universal Ballet of Korea’s “Romeo and Juliet” was the young company’s personable dancers. Village Voice 8/17/04
FROGGIE BOTTOM
The Frogs / Vivian Beaumont Theater, Lincoln Center, NYC / July 22 – October 10, 2004 I can’t imagine why Susan Stroman—best known as the choreographer of Broadway shows, sometime provider of diversions for highbrow sites like New York City Ballet and the Martha Graham Dance Company—didn’t make dance a stronger element as director and […]
Von Ussar Danceworks; Michiyo Sato and Dancers
Astrid von Ussar uses juicy, ferocious movement to create dances exploring relationships of the heart; Michiyo Sato summons a polyglot vocabulary and a gently feminist aproach to treat issues rooted in the history of her native Japan. Village Voice 8/11/04
SWEAR NOT BY THE MOON
Universal Ballet / New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, NYC / July 30 – 31, 2004 Korea is a land with its own venerable dance traditions. Classical ballet, which had taken root there by the 1960s, was a distinctly foreign import (just as it once was in the U.S.). The major influence on the development […]
GOODBYE, ARGENTINA
Boccatango / Joyce Theater, NYC / July 26 – August 12, 2004 The New York dance audience knows Julio Bocca best from his star turns with American Ballet Theatre. These days, he’s also starring in Boccatango, teamed with members of Ballet Argentino, the company he leads back home in Buenos Aires. This touring vehicle is […]
Heidi Latsky Dance
Latsky personifies that state every dancer aspires to–in which intent and execution are one. Village Voice 7/26/04
GOING TO EXTREMES
Lincoln Center Festival 2004: Heisei Nakamura-Za / Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center, NYC / July 17-25, 2004 In a temporary theater in Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park designed to replicate a traditional venue for Kabuki performance, Japan’s Heisei Nakamura-za company condensed to three hours a play that takes a full day to unfold in its unabridged state. […]