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The right foil can sharpen the distinct shapes of a choreographic work, making it appear more completely itself through the comparison of another.
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Time to step on the moving staircase once more—“Escalator,” an evening showcasing new choreographic work curated by the Stephanie Lake Company, in association with the Abbotsford Convent, is back. Having debuted in 2023, it is time for a new group to appear on the circulating belt. Appearing in the 2025 rotation are new works by Alice Dixon, Marni Green, Robert Alejandro Tinning, Thomas Woodman, and Carmen Yih. With them they bring the promise of a burrow, solidarity, risk, reconfiguration, and a reference to Sarah Polley’s 2011 film, Take This Waltz, which, like all things, when shown in a different context, the invitation to interpret and spin it your own way, multiplies the possibilities: “You seem restless, in a kind of permanent way.” Indeed, a wonderful, often playful, restless impermanence seems to permeate the whole escalation, as images malfunction and limbs fold into unforgiving surfaces.
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The right foil can sharpen the distinct shapes of a choreographic work, making it appear more completely itself through the comparison of another.
Continue Reading“Was it Benjamin Franklin, that sagacious and witty man, who, on signing the Declaration of Independence that hot July day in 1776, admonished his colleagues that they had better hang together lest they all hang separately?
Continue ReadingOver the span of two weeks, New York City Center’s Fall for Dance Festival brought to its storied stage a wide range of performers from across the globe with different disciplines, perspectives, and movement vocabularies. Its fifth and final program reiterated what it’s all about: exploring, and celebrating, all the different ways we dance.
Continue ReadingProgram Four of the 22nd annual Fall for Dance Festival opened with an odd expression of gratitude: “thank you for going through all that you went through to get here,” Michael S. Rosenberg, the President and CEO of New York City Center, told the crowd. The 80th session of the UN General Assembly had shut down much of midtown (even to pedestrians), including the block of 55th street that is home to City Center.
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