Peter Boal: “The business of being a prince is not a look. It’s not an action. It’s a model. It’s the supreme example of how to behave in life.” Village Voice 3/10/04
PUPPET SHOW
Paul Taylor Dance Company / City Center, NYC / March 2-14, 2004 Paul Taylor’s current two-week run at the City Center reveals the company in splendid form, dancing as if an ardent, intensified study of echt Taylor style had reanimated it. Old and recent masterworks-Aureole, Airs, Piazzolla Caldera, Promethean Fire-look reborn. And you can spend […]
Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance
Lavagnino uses [pointe work] not as the extension it is of classical ballet’s svelte, codified vocabulary, but with deliberate perversity, as if the capability were a bizarre twist of nature. Village Voice 3/1/04
SCENTS & SENSIBILITY
“Fashioning the Modern Woman: The Art of the Couturière, 1919 – 1939” / The Museum at FIT, NYC / February 10 – April 10, 2004 “Temptation, Joy & Scandal: Fragrance & Fashion 1900-1950” / The Museum at FIT, NYC / February 24 – April 10, 2004 Valerie Steele’s argument is couldn’t be simpler. In the […]
Buglisi/Foreman Dance
The company [is] admirable for its insistence on live music and its terrific dancers, among them Christine Dakin, a paragon of experienced artistry, and the very young and altogether luminous Helen Hansen. Village Voice 2/25/04
BALANCHINE AT HOME #8: ORDER IN THE COURT
New York City Ballet / New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, NYC / January 6 – February 29, 2004 The Sleeping Beauty, that touchstone of classical ballet, addresses and illuminates several absorbing issues—among them, hierarchy. This is only natural. The work was created in 1890 in St. Petersburg. Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky, its composer, and Marius […]
Fugate/Bahiri Ballet NY
The troupe was at its ravishing best in two small masterworks of lyrical dancing—Antony Tudor’s serene Continuo,with its miraculous floating lifts, and George Balanchine’s Valse-Fantaisie, a windswept bagatelle that restores your faith in romance. Village Voice 2/13/04
Jody Oberfelder Dance Projects
Many of the solos, duets, and small-group vignettes that constitute [Landmarks of Dreams] have a colorful, playful air typical of a circus with theatrical aspirations, their vocabulary cheerfully mixing acrobatics, ethnic dance, and the ingenious cantilevering of contact improv. Village Voice 2/13/04
BALANCHINE AT HOME #7: DARLING
New York City Ballet / New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, NYC / January 6 – February 29, 2004 The evening before Valentine’s Day, Megan Fairchild, whose charming looks and diminutive stature echo her surname, made a notable local debut as Swanilda in the New York City Ballet’s Balanchine-Danilova Coppélia and was promoted to the […]
BALANCHINE AT HOME #6: RESETTING GEMS
New York City Ballet / New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, NYC / January 6 – February 29, 2004 At the time of its creation for the New York City ballet in 1967, Balanchine’s Jewels was much touted as the first program-length plotless ballet ever. The claim—good marketing fodder, like the anecdotes about the choreographer’s […]