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When viewing any work of art, patience may be a necessity, rather than a virtue alone. At least, in New York City Center’s second program for its annual Fall for Dance Festival, instant gratification is discouraged, with a slate of three works that reward viewers as they build, gradually, to...
Continua a leggereAt a time when masked ICE thugs are conducting raids up and down California, and the Supreme Court has just decreed the US government can continue arresting people based on the color of their skin, it was entirely appropriate that Rogelio Lopez’s new show opened with a voice over acknowledgement...
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The New York City Ballet’s fall season opened with a nicely varied all-Balanchine program. The man had range. The peasant campiness of “Donizetti Variations” led right into the romantic tremolos of “Ballade,” and his abridged version of the dramatic juggernaut “Swan Lake” followed the lone intermission.
Continua a leggereRecently, I came across a video of a woman having a meltdown at an American Football game. The details are unclear of what exactly went down, but the short clip of this young woman screaming ‘fuck off!’ to the person filming her while being restrained by her parents has garnered...
Continua a leggereAs Martha Graham so succinctly put it, “The body says what words cannot.” Such was the case when Butoh master Oguri, his wife Roxanne Steinberg, Spanish-born Andrés Corchero and Chinese movement artist Mao, talked up a metaphorical storm in a dance performance with three crack musicians at the Electric Lodge...
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Recently, I came across a video of a woman having a meltdown at an American Football game. The details are unclear of what exactly went down, but the short clip of this young woman screaming ‘fuck off!’ to the person filming her while being restrained by her parents has garnered millions of views and thousands of derisive comments.
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As Martha Graham so succinctly put it, “The body says what words cannot.” Such was the case when Butoh master Oguri, his wife Roxanne Steinberg, Spanish-born Andrés Corchero and Chinese movement artist Mao, talked up a metaphorical storm in a dance performance with three crack musicians at the Electric Lodge over the weekend.
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The New York City Ballet’s fall season opened with a nicely varied all-Balanchine program. The man had range. The peasant campiness of “Donizetti Variations” led right into the romantic tremolos of “Ballade,” and his abridged version of the dramatic juggernaut “Swan Lake” followed the lone intermission.
Continua a leggere
When viewing any work of art, patience may be a necessity, rather than a virtue alone. At least, in New York City Center’s second program for its annual Fall for Dance Festival, instant gratification is discouraged, with a slate of three works that reward viewers as they build, gradually, to ecstasy, horror, and mania.
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At a time when masked ICE thugs are conducting raids up and down California, and the Supreme Court has just decreed the US government can continue arresting people based on...
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There’s a dash of madness and oodles of heart in this 2022 dance theatre work from the choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan, who takes us on a whistlestop tour through his biography, including his childhood in 1970s Dublin and his breakthrough years as a dancer (and eventual dancemaker) in ‘90s London.
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Melbourne-based dance artist Jo Lloyd uses choreography as a social encounter, revealing behaviour over various durations and contexts.
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According to her program notes, Sharon Chohi Kim was inspired by murmurations—“both spontaneous flocks of starlings and a collection of low, continuous sounds”—in her premiere (one-night only) of the same name.
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We enter the cavernous Wade Thompson Drill Hall of the Park Avenue Armory to an oblong stage area flanked by seating on the long sides, emulating the sightline of Anna Wintour and her corps of high couture fashionistas at Fashion Week.
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London City Ballet returned to Sadler’s Wells last weekend with a programme of rarely seen works by Balanchine, Ratmansky, Scarlett, and Melac. Still in the early stages of its revival—the...
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Two years ago Jonathan Watkins, choreographer and former dancer with the Royal Ballet, founded a new venture: Ballet Queer.
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It was a picture-perfect evening at the Hollywood Bowl for music and dance under the stars. The last concert of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s classical series, it was to have featured conductor and former Dudamel Fellow, Jonathan Heyward, but the Franco-British maestra, Stephanie Childress, led the ensemble instead.
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The lobby of the Ace Hotel Boerum Hill is an excellent place to work, particularly in the room with the long table and library lamps.
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The life of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky does not lack melodramatic potential. The composer of ballet classics such as “Swan Lake,” “Sleeping Beauty” and “The Nutcracker” was celebrated by Imperial Russia for his compositions yet simultaneously forced to hide his homosexuality.
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I’m not weathering well. Are you? Individually and globally, it seems to me the last five years left many of us in a vague sort of freefall, in a theatrum...
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She’s one of the hottest and most prolific Black female directors and choreographers working today. Tapping into both ancestral and contemporary stories that capture a range of not only deeply personal experiences but also embody cultural narratives of African American identity, she is Camille A. Brown.
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Martha Graham’s short ballet from 1947 “Errand into the Maze” takes inspiration from the epic Greek legend of the Minotaur’s Labyrinth.
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The New York City Ballet's summer residency at Saratoga Performing Arts Center captured a year of company anniversaries.
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It may seem like a stretch to go from being a lawyer to making one’s mark in the world as an acclaimed dancer, director, and choreographer, but that’s precisely what Nora Chipaumire has done.
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Look up at the night sky, and the stars can tell you when to seed, harvest, and fish. The overhead knowledge system heralds seasonal change, and allows you to read...
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