Shakespearean Twist
It’s a drag to report that I had the urge to walk out of my first performance back in NYC after a long summer break.
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World-class review of ballet and dance.
How do dancers with disabilities navigate space? Who is defining space for disabled dancers? What are the objects that obstruct, block and blur? How do we define choreography within the framework of disability? Candoco Dance Company are, as ever, refining and redefining what it is to move in space, and how dancers of various abilities navigate this in their practice. They ask the questions that make other people shy away, because society is still not comfortable with disability. As an arts critic recently diagnosed with a disability, I became increasingly aware during lockdown of how I interact with day to day chores, the wobbly steps I take, and often see how many people try to walk through me as if I am invisible—they would rather I didn't exist. So these two short dance films resonated powerfully for me.
Welly O'Brien in Cuckoo directed by Caroline Darbyshire and Sophie de Oliveira Barata of the Alternative Limb Project
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It’s a drag to report that I had the urge to walk out of my first performance back in NYC after a long summer break.
PlusThings seem to be clicking in place for Mamela Nyamza. Her latest work “The Herd/Less” is touring the world while her recognition as a choreographer with a distinction for the subversive and political has earned her a Silver Lion for dance at the Venice Biennale.
PlusAfter taking a field trip in the second grade to see the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Ronald K. Brown was inspired to take his first dance class at Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, a Brooklyn-based community center.
PlusAs much as it is a cliché to reference, there is something special in finding a work that so aptly fits that famous quote from George Balanchine: “See the music. Hear the dance.”
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