Lincoln Center Festival 2004: Ashton Celebration / Metropolitan Opera House, NYC / July 6-17, 2004 The second night of the Ashton Celebration featured two dances, both Birmingham Royal Ballet productions, in which the choreographer operated in his free-flowing “barefoot” vein, presumably with Isadora Duncan as his muse. The legendary primogenitor of modern dance was surely […]
ASHTON CELEBRATION #1
Lincoln Center Festival 2004: Ashton Celebration / Metropolitan Opera House, NYC / July 6-17, 2004 Oh, to be in England this year, the 100th anniversary of Frederick Ashton’s birth, to follow the many productions of the ballets with which the choreographer fashioned the shape and tone of British classical dancing! New York-based dance aficionados, at […]
Tiffany Mills Company
Tiffany Mills tells us that out-of-control force and skewed perceptions belong to us all. Village Voice 6/29/04
BALLET GALORE: WEEK #8
The Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg is back at New York’s City Center through April 29 with a new piece, “The Seagull” (after Chekhov’s play), and repertory hits it’s an understatement to call colorful.
Midsummer Night Swing
No matter that both your feet are lefties. Midsummer Night Swing will get them stepping and gliding with rhythm, grace, and spunk. Village Voice 6/22/04
School of American Ballet 40th Annual Workshop Performances
Most delightful was Susan Pilarre’s staging of two chunks of Union Jack, in which technically brilliant incipient stars let themselves go, showbiz-style, with terrific humor and verve. Village Voice 6/22/04
Parsons Dance Company
David Parsons’s choreography played second fiddle to the live music from the Ahn Trio that accompanied it. Village Voice 6/7/04
CHANGE OF SCENE
In summer, dancing takes to the streets, parks, and other venues in which the show’s only roof is the sky. Stephan Koplowitz’s “The Grand Step Project,” commissioned by Dancing in the Streets, was out of doors, site-specific, and rich in reverberations.
BALLET GALORE: WEEK #7
SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET 40TH ANNUAL WORKSHOP PERFORMANCES Juilliard Theater, Lincoln Center, NYC / June 5 & 7, 2004 Persisting in its unwieldy low-key name (see above), Workshop infallibly provides a bright spot in the dance-world calendar. A yearly showcase of the august academy’s students, the event consists of matinee and evening performances on a […]
TWO FOR THE SHOW
Mark Morris Dance Group / BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, Brooklyn, NY / June 8-12, 2004 The problem with the two new-to-New-York dances Mark Morris paired for his company’s recent run at BAM lies mainly in their juxtaposition. Violet Cavern (being given its world premiere) and All Fours (in its first local performances) are both […]