Jock Soto retires from the New York City Ballet’s stage on June 19 at the age of 40, after 25 years with the company. For the latter part of that period he has been extolled as a partner—as if that were his main (even sole) virtue, as was, essentially, the case with the company’s Conrad […]
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ON WITH THE NEW!
New York City Ballet / New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, NYC / April 26 – June 26, 2005 One way or another, gala programs must be striking. This season, the New York City Ballet’s boldly shunned both Balanchine and Robbins, the guys who give the company its raison d’être, for five new additions to […]
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 […]
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 […]
ARTSJOURNAL ARTS & LETTERS DAILY BALLET.CO BALLERINA GALLERY THE DANCE INSIDER DANCEVIEW TIMES FOOTNOTES GREAT DANCE WEBLOG THE WINGER The RÉUNION DES MUSÉES NATIONAUX (The National Museum Association’s Photographic Agency) offers a photographic catalogue of some 200,00 holdings of French museums. It can be searched by artist, country, period, subject, and so on. You can […]
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THE SHOW GOES ON (AND ON)
Jérôme Bel: The Show Must Go On / Dance Theater Workshop, NYC / March 24-26, 2005 The advance word on Jérôme Bel (French-born and -trained, well traveled globally), made him out to be a bad boy—a renegade, an iconoclast, a threat to Things as They Are. Sort of a latter-day incarnation of early postmodernists like […]
. . . and while I know a woman who learned Greek at ninety there are nevertheless some skills, like ballet dancing and gum chewing, which can only be mastered by the very young. — Jean Kerr, Penny Candy Now that my hair is white, and my years of life ahead are growing fewer, I […]
DUMB SHOW
Matthew Bourne: Play Without Words / BAM Harvey Theater, NYC / March 15 – April 3, 2005 Matthew Bourne, who has relentlessly been creating new takes on golden holies (Nutcracker, La Sylphide, Cinderella, and—the one that made it to Broadway—Swan Lake), insists in interviews that his work, if it’s dance at all, is for people […]
GARBO GETS DRESSED
Glamour: Fashion, Film, Fantasy / The Museum at FIT, NYC / February 15 – April 16, 2005 Camille; directed by George Cukor; starring Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, and Lionel Barrymore; gowns by Adrian; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1936 Any theory that may lie behind Glamour: Fashion, Film, Fantasy, the current FIT exhibition curated by Valerie Steele and Fred […]