{Dd} Critical Conversation: The Power of Juxtaposition in Jen Rosenblit’s A...
Alexandra Pinel and Candice Thompson sat down together at the Kitchen to take in Jen Rosenblit’s A Natural Dance. CT: I left Jen Rosenblit’s A Natural Dance wondering whether this episodic...
View ArticleDd 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...
View Article{ Dd } Response: Huang Yi & KUKA at Georgia Tech
After HUANG YI & KUKA’s incredibly modern performance a couple weeks ago, I walked out of Georgia Tech’s Ferst Center thinking back to an analog moment in the late 1960’s when a poem presaged this...
View Article{Dd} Response: Hubbard Street Dance of Chicago at Northrop
Hubbard Street Dance of Chicago brought contemporary lines, chic silhouettes, and a corporate sensibility to the Carlson Family Stage at Northrop Auditorium on January 30th , 2016. The company opened...
View Article{Dd} Response: The Media and Maillot’s Post-War Dance
We live in an era of never-ending entertainment, mediated by the screens surrounding us constantly. Choré, performed this weekend by Les Ballets de Monte Carlo at Costa Mesa’s Segerstrom Center for...
View ArticleCombustible Company’s “Bluebeard’s Dollhouse” is Brave, Though Busy
The power of secrets. Violence. Marriage. What scarier ways could there be to usher in Halloween? I started my October off with the world premiere of “Bluebeard’s Dollhouse,” a new, promenade-style...
View ArticleStepping Into Greg Wohead’s Memory at Georgia Tech
After stepping out of the little black Fiat where Greg Wohead’s one-on-one performance The Backseat of My Car (and other safe places) occurred last Friday night, I found myself struck by a series of...
View Article{ Dd } Response: Dancers Shine in “The Hip Hop Nutcracker”
I love a good remix. So, I jumped at the chance to see The Hip Hop Nutcracker at the Ordway Center for Performing Arts on Tuesday, November 22, 2016. As I walked through the lobby doors that evening,...
View ArticleMomix’s Opus Cactus: A Well-Crafted Spectacle Revisited
After its premiere in 2001, Moses Pendelton’s Opus Cactus is enjoying a welcomed revival at The Joyce Theater. For a company who has been criticized for the overzealous use of tricks, Momix’s...
View ArticleAlarmél Valli Celebrates Ragamala Dance Company’s 25th Anniversary
Ragamala Dance Company marked its 25th Anniversary at the Cowles Center in Minneapolis on September 14th and 16th. I attended the Saturday night concert featuring Bharatanatyam dancer and...
View ArticleBanataba: The Interrogation of a MET Collection
On the second weekend of September in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s transplanted sixteenth century Spanish Velez Blanco Patio, Faustin Linyekula revealed his very personal journey through the MET’s...
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Forward To Nature: Jefta Van Dinther’s Call For a R(e)-evolution
Is it a matter of privileged ability or habitual tendency, that concert dance tends to lend itself to provisions of aspiration? Perhaps it’s SYTYCD culture and the new norm of “more is more”, but I...
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BalletNext at NYLA: Lacking a Critical Eye
Michele Wiles and Company in The Pianist. Photo by Eduardo Patino Michele Wiles has returned to the stage and to the artistic direction of BalletNext, following the birth of her first child in 2017. I...
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