We All Fall Down
To fell a tree, after determining the fall path, you need to make a notch in the side of the trunk with your chainsaw.
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Who doesn’t love the circus—especially nouveau cirque? With its unclassifiable blend of genres, it reflects so much of what it means to be human—the comedy, absurdity, beauty, sadness, delight, and more. Always tinged with physical risk or challenge, circus inspires childlike wonder. So when I noticed PS21’s dedicated programming of cirque offerings this season, I made the trip upstate to the Hudson Valley to this progressive contemporary arts venue on a bucolic, 100-acre campus. The venue, with its open-air Pavilion theater, was the ideal setting for the US premiere of “Runners,” by Cirk la Putyka from the Czech Republic.
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To fell a tree, after determining the fall path, you need to make a notch in the side of the trunk with your chainsaw.
FREE ARTICLEParis Opera Ballet presented an all-Robbins program at the Garnier from October 24 to November 10: “En Sol,” “In the Night,” and “The Concert,” all works Jerome Robbins made for New York City Ballet.
Continue ReadingThis week at the Joyce, the Van Cleef & Arpels Dance Reflections Festival presented its starriest program yet: “Dancing with Glass: The Piano Etudes.”
Continue ReadingWatching George Balanchine’s “The Nutcracker” the other night at New York City Ballet, I was struck, once again, by the sense of balance it both portrays and embodies.
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