A Grand Evening
It was a lovefest at the David H. Koch Theater last Thursday for the Youth America Grand Prix's 25th Anniversary Gala performance. As galas go, the night was awash in pageantry.
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Tucson, Arizona-based choreographer Yvonne Montoya’s latest work, “Stories from Home,” is part history, part geographical homage, and part family scrapbook. Montoya was inspired to create the piece, which is composed of 12 dances that work together to tell eight stories, after her father passed away due to cancer in 2015.
Montoya’s father worked in the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the government facility where the atomic bomb was famously created. “The government ended up paying for my dad’s terminal cancer treatment because they admitted to exposing [the workers] to things that were highly toxic, nuclear, and radioactive,” Montoya says.
It was a lovefest at the David H. Koch Theater last Thursday for the Youth America Grand Prix's 25th Anniversary Gala performance. As galas go, the night was awash in pageantry.
Continue ReadingAccording to artistic director Peter Boal’s welcome letter for Pacific Northwest Ballet’s fifth season program, the most popular mixed rep slates at PNB feature works by Crystal Pite or Twyla Tharp.
Continue ReadingLassoing is a surprising through-line for a Martha Graham Dance Company performance. The theme steps generally tend towards the child-birthing variety: contractions and deep squats.
Continue ReadingAs a dance viewer, it’s easy to get swept up in the grand movements in a piece, glossing over the finer details.
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