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Bill T. Jones wriggles upstage on his back in a rectangle of light, reciting an unsent letter to the New York Times dance critic Jack Anderson.
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Lists of Promise,” a new work currently in a two-week run from March 13- 30 at the East Village cultural landmark, Theater for the New City, promised more than it delivered, at least for now. The physical theater creation by experimental theater director Ildiko Nemeth and veteran choreographer and performing artist Lisa Giobbi treats the troubling issue of patriarchal dominance—from its emergence in history and some of its perverse suppression of women through to the current time. Inspired by the 1976 feminist classic When God was a Woman by Merlin Stone, the production rolls (literally—as the narrator performs on roller skates) through a series of vignettes tracing a disparate group of women from different historical periods and circumstances in a consciousness-raising check-in.
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Bill T. Jones wriggles upstage on his back in a rectangle of light, reciting an unsent letter to the New York Times dance critic Jack Anderson.
Continue ReadingThe annual Dancing the Gods Festival of Indian Dance celebrated its fourteenth and final year with a generous finale May 16-18. This final event extended for three evenings instead of the usual two.
Continue ReadingSomething old, something new, something borrowed, and something “Blue.” The premise of Australasian Dance Collective’s fortieth anniversary celebration stems from the traditional divisions of time.
Continue ReadingShadows, dark matter and the enigmas of consciousness—the ideas behind Crystal Pite’s “Frontier” are timely and timeless at once.
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