Soll herself is unforgettable–as alert, quick, clear, and delicate as a lark. . . . Aspen Santa Fe Ballet appeals with easily accessible choreography, forcefully executed by dancers who are as bright and attractive as the imaginary people in ads selling you vacations. Village Voice 4/4/05
Taglioni’s Shoe: Memory & Memorabilia
I was standing before a glass case — in a museum or library dedicated to theater memorabilia, I think. Or perhaps an exhibition space in an opera house. Where? New York? London? Paris? Can’t recall. When? No idea. Perhaps decades ago. All I remember —
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 […]
Seeing Things
began life as my ArtsJournal blog, maintained from 2003 through 2005. In 2006 it became the viewing site for the writing on dance that I continue to do elsewhere . . .
Tobi Tobias
lives in New York City, where she writes about dance and other things worth looking at.
My Books
I have written “Obsessed by Dress,” a meditation on fashion or–more broadly–clothes, and over two dozen books for children. You can find out more about these diversions from journalism by clicking on (what else?)
Shannon Hummel/Cora; Dancemopolitan
Shannon Hummel/Cora Dance, which probes the dark complexity of human relationships, will be at the Brooklyn Arts Exchange/BAX June 15-17. Here’s what I had to say about it on an earlier occasion.
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 […]
Royal Ballet School
My bets for a glorious future are on Joseph Caley, a fresh-faced and courageous high flier who might be the hero of a child’s adventure story–prodigious in his skills, ingenuous in his beauty. Village Voice 3/15/05