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Dd Response: “I Have Lived a Thousand Years”
A copy of “I Have Lived a Thousand Years,” a Holocaust memoir by Dr. Livia Bitton-Jackson, sits on a bookshelf in my parent’s house in Michigan. Last Saturday, while there to teach and visit, I picked...
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Dd Response: The CURRENT SESSIONS Volume III, Issue II
This August marked the 2-year anniversary of The CURRENT SESSIONS, a semi-annual, New York City dance series founded by artist, creative director, and producer Alexis Convento. The premise of this...
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Dd Response: Laguna Dance Festival
For almost a decade, The Laguna Dance Festival has been considered a gem in the Southern California dance scene. I discovered it a year ago, when I had just moved to the area from across the country,...
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Dd Critical Conversation: Inside and Outside Perspectives on Dusan Tynek’s...
I sat down with my longtime friend and colleague Emily Gayeski to discuss Dusan Tynek‘s Stereopsis, which premiered last week at BAM Fisher Space. We compared notes on how my experience of viewing the...
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Dd Response: John J Zullo/Raw Movement at St. Mark’s Church
Last Friday, I had the pleasure to witness a triptych of works by the emerging choreographer John J Zullo in St Marks’ Church.The space was draped with long white horizontal sheets for the first piece...
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Dd Response: LEO at the Irvine Barclay Theatre
LEO, a one-man physical theater hearkening from Berlin, literally tipped the stage of the Irvine Barclay Theatre on its side on Saturday, October 5th. A set by Flavia Hevin consisted of three walls and...
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Critical Conversation: A Young Person’s Perspective on Hubbard Street 2 and...
Lola is a precocious young lady who lives with her family in New York City, She is a third-grade student at the Talented & Gifted School for Young Scholars (M012), and studies dance at The Ailey...
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Dd Response: Nederlands Dans Theater 1
On Friday night at the Music Center in Los Angeles, Nederlands Dance Theater 1 thrilled; if it were possible, they’d have exceeded their reputation as the best that dance has to offer. A well-known...
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Dd Exclusive: Savion Glover brings ‘Serious Awareness’ to Tap Dance
For award-winning dancer/choreographer, Savion Glover, tap dance is no laughing matter. In anticipation of his upcoming performance which opens the season at the Brooklyn Center for Performing Arts, I...
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Dd Response—Get on the Good Foot: A Celebration in Dance
Derick K. Grant performs during Opening Night of James Brown: Get on the Good Foot, A Celebration in Dance Get on the Good Foot: A Celebration in Dance honored the life of James Brown (1933-2006),...
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Dd Response: Run Don’t Run by Brian Brooks Moving Company
The show hadn’t even started and I was already in awe: Brian Brooks and Philip Trevino had created an installation that occupied the entire stage and from any seat you could see hundreds of red “cloth...
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Dd Response: Savion Glover’s STePZ
Savion Glover An audience made up mostly of families with children, young couples, and seniors gathered at the Brooklyn Center for Performing Arts on Saturday, November 2nd for a one-night-only...
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Dd Response: Maria Hassabi’s PREMIERE at the Kitchen
What does a crackling fire sound like? Does it resemble the early stages of corn popping in a pot on the stove—when there are intervals of silence between the pops? And is that pneumatic sound of a...
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Dd Response: Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet’s Rain Dogs
Though Rain Dogs, choreographed by Johan Inger, was a new repertory work for Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, it was not new to the Inger, who had created it originally for Ballet Basil in 2011. But,...
View ArticleDd Response: A look back into Dancing Literate
Summation Dance’s Dancing Literate at St. Marks Church was created to answer one of the biggest struggles of modern dance choreographers: how to bridge the gap between society and modern dance while...
View ArticleDd Response: Ate9 dANCE cOMPANY
A man walked onto the stage of the Carpenter Performing Arts Center at California State University Long Beach carrying a chair. He set it down in the center of a trio of women who were dancing to...
View Article{Dd} Response: Atlanta Ballet beautifully retells classic tragedy
When a story is retold as often as Romeo and Juliet, the manner in which it’s told is of utmost importance. An epic story, often centered around the strife between feuding families and two young...
View Article{Dd} Response: A Periapsis Valentine’s Day Special
Back for its winter season, the Periapsis Music and Dance Collaboration series showcased a wide variety of works in the spirit of Valentine’s Day. Love was depicted as an act of passion through the...
View ArticleDd Response: 92Y’s Stripped/Dressed is Best of Both Worlds
For five weekends during February and March, the 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center played host to five dance companies as part of Stripped/Dressed. Curated by Doug Varone, the series is a sexier...
View ArticleDd Response: Ailey’s House Literally Rocked
It was in the middle of “Wade in the Water,” a section of Alvin Ailey’s signature work Revelations, when our row started to rock from side to side. My first thought was that members of the...
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