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Last week, during the first Fjord Review Dance Critics’ Festival, Mindy Aloff discussed and read from an Edwin Denby essay during “The Critic’s Process” panel.
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A Sweet Nutcracker
There are “Nutcrackers,” and then there’s American Contemporary Ballet’s “The Nutcracker Suite.”
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The Other Side
Is it as traditional as there being “The Nutcracker” or the British pantomime on at Christmas time, for there to be an alternative offering?
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Song and Dance
To paraphrase that great song from “A Chorus Line,” the Los Angeles-based BodyTraffic gave a concert that might best be summed up as, “Dancers 10, Choreographers, well, 3.”
Continua a leggereRunning in Circles
As Highways Performance Space continues its 35th anniversary celebration, executive director Leo Garcia and artistic director Patrick Kennelly presented two special programs, each honoring titans of the post-modern dance world
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A Thing of Beauty
I can only imagine the challenge it might be for a creator to approach the cavernous 55,000 square foot drill hall of Park Avenue Armory in its raw state.
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Eye Candy
’Tis the season, so it would be churlish to pick holes in Christopher Hampson's glorious confection, adapted from Peter Darrell's iconic work.
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Piece by Piece
Like two cicadas advancing, springing instep with each other, Tra Mi Dinh and Rachel Coulson manifest from the shadows of the deep stage of the new Union Theatre.
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From Strength to Strength: Tina Finkelman Berkett
“I can’t even stand it,” exclaimed Tina Finkelman Berkett about the Perenchio Foundation grant that her dance troupe, BodyTraffic, recently received.
Continua a leggereMoving Portraits
Beneath a tree also over a century old is where I meet dancer and artist Eileen Kramer, and where the 60-minute loop will end. And it feels fitting, on the heels...
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Falling for Hubbard
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s Fall Series will entertain you. Deftly curated, with choreographers ranging from Aszure Barton to Bob Fosse, Hubbard’s dancers ably morph through this riveting programme of showmanship.
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The Art of Becoming with Jack Lister
Like the productions he creates, Jack Lister is three things: enigmatic, polished, and intentional. He is both artist and observer, subject and spectator; his innate polarity creates a unique, yet candidly earnest, profile.
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Lifted Spirits
Even at his most straightforward, Paul Taylor often imbued his dances with a sardonic wit. Whether invoking darkness or light, he did so with a wink.
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Dream Come True
Talk about Gesamtkunstwerk! Jawole Willa Jo Zollar’s “SCAT!...The Complex Lives of Al & Dot, Dot & Al Zollar,” is just that—a total work of art: operatic in scale, replete with stellar musicians and singers, and the glorious dancers of Urban Bush Women, the troupe that Zollar founded in 1984, is also storytelling at its best.
Continua a leggereThe Tragedy of Hamlet
Of all of Shakespeare’s plays, “Hamlet” might seem the hardest to adapt into dance. Its long soliloquies and a titular character stymied by indecision do not immediately scream movement potential.
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A Birthday Suite
Complexions Contemporary Ballet turned 30 this year, and their two-week residency at the Joyce Theater was a party.
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Dance to the Music
BalletX concluded its 2024 season in its new home, the Suzanne Roberts Theatre across from the Wilma, a theater that had been its home for 18 years.
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Coming into the Light
Loïe Fuller, groundbreaking artist, dancer and theatrical maverick, is finally getting her due in the feature-length documentary, Obsessed with Light. Opening at New York’s Quad Cinema on December 6, the film, directed by Zeva Oelbaum and Sabine Krayenbühl, is a meditation on light and the enduring passion to create.
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An Evening with Omar
A duet featuring the choreographer himself was an unexpected treat when Boca Tuya, founded in 2018 by Omar Román de Jesús, took the stage at 92NY last week. De Jesús is a scintillating model for the liquid, undulating movement style that flows through all three works of the evening.
Continua a leggereDance Critics' Festival
Designed to look at the process and art of writing dance criticism, this one-day event will feature panel discussions with Fjord Review writers, audience Q&A sessions, a conversation with a special guest...
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