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Dd Response: Spellbound Contemporary Ballet
The latest in Irvine Barclay Theatre’s international 2013 Contemporary Dance Series was Italy’s Spellbound Contemporary Ballet, formerly known as Spellbound Dance Company, under Artistic Director and...
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Dd Response: Summation Dance Faces Down a 3rd Season at BAM
Breaking the fourth wall remains a risky business, requiring not only the full commitment of the performer but complete necessity, as an artistic choice, from the production. Lacking those two...
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Dd Response: Tango with Gabriel Misse & Analia Centurion
On Friday April 5, Gabriel Misse and Analia Centurion brought a slice of Argentina to the Big Apple. The evening’s event marked the end of a two-week series of tango workshops, milongas, and...
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Dd Response: E-Moves 14
Harlem Stages presented E-Moves 14, a three-night series spanning two weekends, on Friday, April 12, 13, and 19. I had the pleasure of attending the program presented on Friday, April 13, which...
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Dd Response: Stephen Petronio Company’s Spring Revival at the Joyce
Spring is the season when the least mystical of New Yorkers find themselves praying for some kind of natural and personal resurrection, rolling the boulder away to emerge from the cave of winter. Last...
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Dd Response: Gym Shorts, The Show
Playwrights are continually looking for the perfect setting to display the emotions we experience throughout our every day lives. Eric Robertson has set out to do exactly this, and in so doing, found a...
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Dd Response: Ballet BC at Irvine Barclay Theatre
Before Saturday at the Irvine Barclay Theater, the last time I had seen Rachel Meyer and Darren Devaney dance together was five years ago, during a rehearsal for my piece at San Francisco Conservatory...
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Dd Response: Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet at the Joyce Theater
On Friday, May 10, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet presented an evening of original, contemporary works at New York City’s Joyce Theater. Cedar Lake dancers in Horizons; photo by Paula Lobo Jiri...
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Dd Response: Finding Diverse Points of Reference in NYCB’s All Robbins Program
There are many choreographers who have neither the depth of ideas nor range to sustain a full evening and whose work is best suited to splitting a bill with another artistic voice. Jerome Robbins is...
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Dd Response: Unpacking Paradox in ABT’s Shostakovich Trilogy
Dmitiri Shostakovich is the kind of artist whose work invites intrigue. He composed under an intensely fearful and repressive regime, prompting many of his listeners to try to read between the phrases...
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Capturing Music, Releasing Dance: Lar Lubovitch Dance Company and...
I’m intrigued by the idea of new dance work stemming from new music. Choreographers regularly commission a composer to create music for their dances, but how often do composers commission...
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Dd Response: Post:Ballet at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in SF
In San Francisco, excitement is building for Robert Dekker’s Post:Ballet, a small and relatively new company with all the markings of professionalism. I attended their fourth annual home season...
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360 Degrees of Jaw-Dropping Dance at Cedar Lake
“They are 32. They are young, driven and talented. During the past weeks they have had to confront their fears and weaknesses while immersing themselves in the professional dance world of Cedar Lake....
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Dd Response: Week 1 of Ballet v6.0 at the Joyce
When asking the big questions like “Is there a God?” and… “What is contemporary ballet in 2013?” artists (and believers) are searching for a raison d’etre. The curators of Ballet v6.0—a contemporary...
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Dd Response: Vendetta Mathea & Co at the Downtown Dance Festival
Vendetta Mathea, an American transplant in Aurillac, France, shared an excerpt of her new work, Water Soul, at the Downtown Dance Festival last Sunday. Since I was born and raised in France, it was...
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Complexions Contemporary Ballet & Lula Washington Dance Theater at the Ford...
It was difficult to talk any of my local friends into going with me to see Complexions Contemporary Ballet and Lula Washington Dance Theater perform last Saturday at the Ford Theater in Hollywood. Not...
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An Evening of Film: Fordham Alumni Company’s CANNED ART Festival
I never go to the movies. Perhaps it’s because of the sticker shock every time I see the ticket price. It might be because New York City movie theaters have a reputation for bedbug infestation and I,...
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Dd Response: Letter From Becket
The day before taking a road trip up to Jacob’s Pillow to see Restless Creature, I took down my costume design website. Over the last two years my artistic focus has shifted from designing and sewing...
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On the Delayed Adulthood of Millenial Dancers: Woman of Leisure and Panic and...
In Charlotte Bydwell’s Woman of Leisure and Panic, a one-woman dance theater show performed as part of the Fringe Festival in NYC the last two weeks, timing was everything. From start to finish, this...
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Dd Response: Week 2 of Ballet v6.0 at the Joyce
During the second week of the Joyce’s Ballet v6.0 festival, Whim W’Him, BalletCollective, and Jessica Lang Dance presented evenings of contemporary ballet that far surpassed those I attended in week...
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