Jonathan Burrows/Matteo Fargion / The Kitchen, NYC / March 11-13, 2004 Is less more? Answer: Yes, when we’re talking about Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion’s Both Sitting Duet. Performing the 45-minute piece they invented, the two guys sit on battered regulation-issue wooden chairs smack in the middle of a bare, black-box stage space. The chairs […]
Shannon Hummel/Cora; Anita Cheng Dance
Typically, the figures of [Hummel’s] imagination relate intensely to one another, while the hows and whys of their liaisons remain enigmatic; Anita Cheng’s dance imagination teems with ideas [but] the moment has come for [her] to work deep instead of wide. Village Voice 3/17/04
SHIFTING GEARS
Nederlands Dans Theater / BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, NYC / March 9-14, 2004 Come to us from The Hague and holding forth at BAM for the first time since 1999, Nederlands Dans Theater has changed while the New York audience wasn’t looking. For over a quarter century, it has been shaped by Czech choreographer […]
Peter Boal & Company
Peter Boal: “The business of being a prince is not a look. It’s not an action. It’s a model. It’s the supreme example of how to behave in life.” Village Voice 3/10/04
PUPPET SHOW
Paul Taylor Dance Company / City Center, NYC / March 2-14, 2004 Paul Taylor’s current two-week run at the City Center reveals the company in splendid form, dancing as if an ardent, intensified study of echt Taylor style had reanimated it. Old and recent masterworks-Aureole, Airs, Piazzolla Caldera, Promethean Fire-look reborn. And you can spend […]
Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance
Lavagnino uses [pointe work] not as the extension it is of classical ballet’s svelte, codified vocabulary, but with deliberate perversity, as if the capability were a bizarre twist of nature. Village Voice 3/1/04
SCENTS & SENSIBILITY
“Fashioning the Modern Woman: The Art of the Couturière, 1919 – 1939” / The Museum at FIT, NYC / February 10 – April 10, 2004 “Temptation, Joy & Scandal: Fragrance & Fashion 1900-1950” / The Museum at FIT, NYC / February 24 – April 10, 2004 Valerie Steele’s argument is couldn’t be simpler. In the […]
Buglisi/Foreman Dance
The company [is] admirable for its insistence on live music and its terrific dancers, among them Christine Dakin, a paragon of experienced artistry, and the very young and altogether luminous Helen Hansen. Village Voice 2/25/04
BALANCHINE AT HOME #8: ORDER IN THE COURT
New York City Ballet / New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, NYC / January 6 – February 29, 2004 The Sleeping Beauty, that touchstone of classical ballet, addresses and illuminates several absorbing issues—among them, hierarchy. This is only natural. The work was created in 1890 in St. Petersburg. Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky, its composer, and Marius […]
Fugate/Bahiri Ballet NY
The troupe was at its ravishing best in two small masterworks of lyrical dancing—Antony Tudor’s serene Continuo,with its miraculous floating lifts, and George Balanchine’s Valse-Fantaisie, a windswept bagatelle that restores your faith in romance. Village Voice 2/13/04