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 […]
FIFTY YEARS OF HEAVEN AND HELL
Paul Taylor Dance Company / City Center, NYC / March 1-20, 2005 Celebrating its 50th anniversary with a tour to the full 50 United States, the Paul Taylor Dance Company is playing three weeks in New York City, its hometown. The repertoire encompasses a host of golden (and silver) oldies and a pair of new […]
Cathy Weis Projects
Impelled by her unabashedly maverick imagination, Cathy Weis melds dance, video, and the fact that she has multiple sclerosis into haunting theater pieces. Village Voice 2/22/05
Elisa Monte Dance; Configuration
Monte’s choreography is handsome and functional, but all her devices remain standard; on the Configuration program, only Harrison McEldowney’s “At the End of the Road” offered genuine joy and wit. Village Voice 2/22/05
RoseAnne Spradlin
I guess RoseAnne Spradlin has death on her mind. Village Voice 2/8/05
STAR TURN
Stars of the 21st Century / New York State Theater, NYC / February 14, 2005 Dance fans are familiar with gala bits-and-pieces programs that showcase the more obvious gifts of a company’s stars. Stars of the 21st Century, which has become an annual affair, goes the formula one better by assembling its players from an […]
OTHER PEOPLE’S “GATES”
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Gates, Central Park, New York, 1979-2005 / February 12-27, 2005 The Gates, which I wrote about last week, will begin its vanishing act on Monday (February 27). This weekend offers a last chance to visit Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s installation—for the first time or once more. Following are a few of the […]
GATED COMMUNITY
Daffodils, a lusty perennial, are blooming again in my backyard–New York’s Central Park. “The Gates,” the Christos’ 2005 one-off, lingers there as a brilliant memory.
Eighth Annual Japanese Contemporary Dance Showcase
The strongest works demonstrated an international outlook, incorporating much Western influence while retaining a stylization and emotional obliqueness characteristic of Asian art. Village Voice 1/25/05
De Facto Dance
In Beginnings, they pace, twist, run, tumble, crawl, and pose in photo-op freeze-frames, intermittently spoofing the pretensions that can attach themselves to the creation of a dance. Village Voice 1/14/05