Ballet Next in "Tintinnabuli" | Photo Paul B. Goode
REVIEW: Ballet Next at the Joyce Theater
Ballet Next opened its season at the Joyce Theater Tuesday with Alison Cook Beatty’s premier of “Tinntinnabuli.” Set to Arvo Part’s “Tabula Rasa”. The piece begins on a solemn note. The audience is peering in on a dark and fearful hour. Michele Wiles prays desperately into a beam of light…
Hofesh Shechter Company in "Political Mother" | Photo Julieta Cervantes
REVIEW: Hofesh Shechter’s ‘Political Mother’ at BAM
It is rare that a viewer can describe a dance performance as a full-bodied experience, but that is exactly what occurred for those seated in the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Howard Gilman Opera House, during Hofesh Shechter’s Political Mother. Israeli born, British based musician turned choreographer, Hofesh Shechter, engulfs viewers with…
Shen Wei Dance Arts' "Rite of Spring" | Photo Bruce R. Feeley
REVIEW: Fall For Dance Festival 2012 at New York City Center: Program 5
Program 5 Shen Wei Dance Arts Laboratory Dance Projects CIRCA María Pagés The Fall for Dance Festival always seems to offer a healthy smorgasbord of dance treats. Program 5 of the festival offered the usual variety from intellectually stimulating work to compromised artistry. To open the evening, Shen Wei Dance…
Darrah Carr Dance Company in Dingle Diwali | Photo Matthew Murphy
PREVIEW: Bessies Nominees Sean Curran and Darrah Carr
“Speaking an old language in a new way with a contemporary accent,” are the words that come to mind for Bessie nominee Sean Curran while discussing collaborations happening in New York’s dance scene. Curran’s own collaboration with Darrah Carr Dance Company earned both the company and guest choreographer a Bessie…
Ka Leo O Laka I Ka Hikini O Ka La | Photo Kane Kahiko
REVIEW: Fall For Dance Festival 2012 at New York City Center: Program 4
Program 4 Shantala Shivalingappa Pacific Northwest Ballet Jodi Melnick Ka Leo O Laka I Ka Hikina O Ka La Program 4 of the 2012 Fall For Dance Festival at New York City Center featured live music for all four companies presented, breathing new life into the half point of the…
Moiseyev Dance Company | Photo E. Masalkov
REVIEW: Fall For Dance Festival 2012 at New York City Center: Program 3
Program 3 Ballet West TU Dance Nan Jombang Moiseyev Dance Company On January 27, 1881 Elena Kunikova and Marius Petipa premiered the Grand Pas from Paquita. In 2012 at the Fall For Dance Festival, over a century later, the piece still brings sequined glamour and romanticism. These are the patterns…
Megan Fairchild and Chase Finlay in George Balanchine's "Duo Concertant" | Photo Paul Kolnik
REVIEW: New York City Ballet’s “Black and White”
In many Balanchine works, the first strains of a Stravinsky score serve as musical nitroglycerin: poised in stable tension, dancers suddenly explode into movement well matched to the music’s complexity and precision. Such was the case Saturday afternoon in New York City Ballet’s “Black and White” program, which continues the…
Blakeley White-McGuire in Martha Graham’s ‘Chronicle’ | Photo Michele Ballantini
REVIEW: Fall for Dance Festival 2012 at New York City Center: Program 2
Program 2 Juilliard Dance American Ballet Theater The Hong Kong Ballet Martha Graham Dance Company It was a night for classics at New York City Center’s Program 2 of Fall For Dance Festival. The spectrum of work illuminated the deep historical tradition of codified technique and striking discipline. Juilliard’s senior…