This article originally appeared in Voice of Dance (http://www.voiceofdance.org) on September 27, 2007. New York Baroque Dance Company, with Company XIV and Concert Royal: “Points of Departure” / Mark Morris Dance Center, James and Martha Duffy Performance Space / Brooklyn, NY / September 21, 22, 28, and 29, 2007 New York Baroque Dance Company in […]
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Larger Than Life
This article originally appeared in Voice of Dance (http://www.voiceofdance.org) on September 21, 2007. Big Dance Theater / Dance Theater Workshop, NYC / September 19-22, 25-29, 2007 Big Dance Theater’s The Other Here. Photo by Julieta Cervantes. Here’s the recipe for Big Dance Theater’s The Other Here, just arrived at Dance Theater Workshop after a February […]
Graham Company Dances in Shadow of Martha’s Image
This article originally appeared in the Culture section of Bloomberg News on Sept. 17, 2007. Sept. 17 (Bloomberg) — On film, swathed head to ankles in a tube of stretch jersey, the only bare flesh a face like an ancient mask and work-toughened hands and feet, Martha Graham dances “Lamentation,” her landmark 1930 solo that […]
Thread: Personal Indulgences No. 2
People ask where your passion for something started. As if a passion were an unreasonable thing to have and needed to be justified by a specific root cause. For me, the devotion to dance began when I was a child and saw a picture in Life magazine. It was a small black and white photograph […]
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
This article originally appeared in Voice of Dance (http://www.voiceofdance.org) on August 27, 2007. Nureyev: The Russian Years / PBS “Great Performances” / August 29, 2007 Rudolph Nureyev. Photo courtesy Thirteen/WNET New York. Rudolph Nureyev (1938-1993), the Tatar ballet dancer, was a phenomenon before America and the world at large ever heard of him. Now there’s […]
Second Thoughts
This article originally appeared in Voice of Dance (http://www.voiceofdance.org) on August 21, 2007. Mark Morris Dance Group, Mozart Dances / New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, NYC / August 15-18, 2007 Mark Morris Dance Group in Morris’s Mozart Dances. Photo by Stephanie Berger. I saw (and wrote about) the world premiere of Mark Morris’s Mozart […]
Zaha Hadid’s Forms Dance to Urban Beats; Beijing Opera Updated
This article originally appeared in the Culture section of Bloomberg News on July 26, 2007. Shen Wei Dance Arts production of “Second Visit to the Empress” (Photo: Stephanie Berger) July 26 (Bloomberg) — Thoreau was right when he wrote that urban life threatens to do us in. Frederic Flamand, director of the Ballet National de […]
Entangled Bodies, Gymnastic Feats Highlight Pilobolus NYC Dance
This article originally appeared in the Culture section of Bloomberg News on July 17, 2007. July 17 (Bloomberg) — Dressed in rakish, mismatched bits of theatrical costume, six feisty dancers evoke a ragtag traveling circus onstage and off. They’re down on their luck yet plucky, lacking the talent to match their big dreams. This is […]
Still a Phenomenon
This article originally appeared in Voice of Dance (http://www.voiceofdance.org) on June 28, 2007. Mikhail Baryshnikov and Hell’s Kitchen Dance / Howard Gilman Performance Space, Baryshnikov Arts Center, NYC / June 22-24, 2007 Dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov. Photo by Olivier Simola. Tragically, classical ballet dancers are athletically over the hill in their thirties. That leaves decades of […]
A Little Sojourn In Paradise
This article originally appeared in Voice of Dance (http://www.voiceofdance.org) on June 25, 2007. Savion Glover, Invitations to a Dancer / Joyce Theater, NYC / June 19 – July 14, 2007 Savion Glover. Photo by NiNA. The master tapper Savion Glover may have been cool providing the feet motion-captured for the irresistible dancing penguin Mumble in […]