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A 22-member crew of personable, versatile performers, accomplished in a mix of ballet, modern, and jazz modes, who are out to please without begging. Village Voice 8/15/05

The movement of “Reel”–now angular and thrusting against the air, now sinuously splayed against the ground–looked as if it might belong to an ancient tribal culture with ties to various postmodern nations (Tom Pearson); With no obvious structure and only the smallest hints of message, Breezy Berryman’s “Widow’s Walk” satisfied simply through the precision, vitality, […]

I didn’t so much mind the gratuitous brutal hostility–one must, after all, move with the times–but the adolescent acting out of childish fantasies rooted in the grotesquely disgusting . . . Village Voice 7/19/05

In a ruminative homoerotic duet rife with emotional subtlety, even acrobatic moves look like the characters’ natural means of expression. Village Voice 7/19/05

Simply through scrupulous descriptions of what people wore, the writer brings social and theatrical milieus alive. Village Voice 7/5/05

Love and death, in their myriad guises. Village Voice 6/10/05

The boys of Les Ballets Grandiva, more than equal to many a classical practitioner playing it straight, are back at Symphony Space, on New York’s Upper West Side, April 12-17.

Tense Dave’s neighbors (or fantasies) include an elegant sadist, a nightgowned damsel with extravagant suicidal impulses, a languid lady given to enacting the scenarios of Victorian bodice rippers, and a creepy fellow who does nasty things to small creatures in his spare time. Village Voice 5/31/05

The ever-popular Momix, an offspring of the even more popular Pilobolus, is at the Joyce again, May 22 – June 10, featuring a program of its Greatest Hits. Two years ago I had this to say about their antics.

Dare I say that the show sometimes seems unreal in its surface perfection, as if the irregularities and ambiguities that make art and life profound had yielded to Disneyfication? (Nrityagram); Andrea E. Woods may be essentially a solo performer–as Souloworks, the punning title of her enterprise, indicates–but she has a steady partner in the rhythmically […]