Pina Bausch's "Kontakthof" at BAM | Photo Theatre de la Ville
REVIEW: Pina Bausch’s “Kontakthof” at BAM
Pina Bausch has a gift for holding up a beautiful mirror and gently showing us how ridiculous we look. In Kontakthof, scenes unfold wildly out of proportion, with hysterical shrieks meeting compulsive preening meeting a fake mouse corpse. “There are dancers onstage,” Anna Wehsarg comments at one point: “do you…
Lar Lubovitch's "Black Rose" | Photo NYC Dance Project
REVIEW: Lar Lubovitch Dance Company at Joyce Theater
Midway through The Black Rose, the second work on Lar Lubovitch Dance Company’s program at the Joyce, the thought surfaced: I really miss Trey McIntyre. When McIntyre shuttered his company this past June, optimists chirped about what bright new adventures the dancers would go on to, each one more talented…
RoseAnne Spradlin at New York Live Arts | Photo Ian Douglas
REVIEW: RoseAnne Spradlin at New York Live Arts
G-h-o-s-t c-r-o-w-n (working title) begins like a ballet gone wrong—Rebecca Warner and Natalie Green repeat classical vocabulary interminably, as though possessed or as though they have forgotten the next step and are desperately trying to summon it via muscle memory. A live (exceptional) musical trio pipes in, led by an…
Jodi Melnick's "Moment Marigold" at BAM | Photo Ian Douglas
REVIEW: Jodi Melnick’s ‘Moment Marigold’ at BAM
In Moment Marigold, currently in its world premiere at BAM Fisher, Jodi Melnick presents a contagious investigation of the myriad curves and lines our 206 bones are capable of producing. This is a dance that studies the human body so thoroughly that a heightened physical awareness drifts off the stage…