Points of View
From the back of the stage, a single searchlight points in the direction of the audience, and as it does, it sweeps across the forms of seven dancers in Stephanie Lake’s “Seven Days.”
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Angelina Laguna kneels on the sidewalk and places her body perpendicular to the flow of the First Avenue foot traffic. Arms crossing her chest, she begins to roll southbound. On this sunny, late winter day in early March, a row of flags ripple in the breeze over her head, including the flag of Afghanistan, which is her stage mark for the beginning of this performance in front of the United Nations headquarters.
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From the back of the stage, a single searchlight points in the direction of the audience, and as it does, it sweeps across the forms of seven dancers in Stephanie Lake’s “Seven Days.”
Continua a leggere“Are we cancelled now?” James Jordan queries mischievously, eyes shining. He’s just made some chancy quips regarding recent Strictly Come Dancing controversies, alluding rather than directly addressing the issues. “We were the good boys on all of our series,” he insists.
Continua a leggereAt a time when the arts in America are under attack and many small dance companies are quietly disappearing, San Francisco’s dance scene—for decades second in its volume of activity only to New York—still has a pulse.
Continua a leggereNoé Soulier enters the space without warning, and it takes a few seconds for the chattering audience to register the man now standing before them, dressed simply in a grey t-shirt and black pants, barefoot.
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