Child's Play
Co. Un Yamada, a dance company and creative collective established in Tokyo in 2002, returned to the New National Theatre Tokyo last week to reprise their popular family-friendly production from 2021, “Obachetta.”
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The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s annual December residency at City Center featured four world premieres. I caught two: Hope Boykin’s “Finding Free” and Lar Lubovitch’s “Many Angels.” Both were in conversation with the troupe’s repertorial lodestar, Ailey’s spiritual “Revelations,” which closed the show. (As it does most nights, 27 times this season. Ronald K. Brown’s similarly uplifting “Grace” holds the finale honor 9 times, while Kyle Abraham’s “Are You in Your Feelings?”, Matthew Rushing’s “Sacred Songs,” and Alonzo King’s “Following the Subtle Current Upstream” close once apiece.) Like “Revelations,” “Finding Free” contemplated the path to heaven—with detours through the hell of oppression—while “Many Angels” started in a higher plane and stayed there. Both new dances were beautiful variations on the deliverance theme, making for an exalted Sunday night triptych.
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Co. Un Yamada, a dance company and creative collective established in Tokyo in 2002, returned to the New National Theatre Tokyo last week to reprise their popular family-friendly production from 2021, “Obachetta.”
Continua a leggereVous les voyez, les étoiles dans la salle?” the woman next to me whispered as the lights dimmed. And indeed, the stalls glittered with former stars of the Paris Opéra Ballet— dancers I recognised, visibly moved and deep in conversation during the interval.
Continua a leggereThere is probably no more beloved ballet, by audiences and dancers alike, than “Romeo and Juliet.”
Continua a leggereIn 2017 Virginie Mécène reimagined the lost Martha Graham solo “Ekstatis.” A review from that Martha Graham Dance Company premiere ended with a strong vote of confidence from critic Gia Kourlas: “Ms. Mécène should keep going.”
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