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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A unique cooperation by New York City’s five largest dance companies, BAAND Together Dance Festival was conceived as an effort to restart live dance performance after the pandemic. Intended as a free summer event, this year the popular event moved indoors to Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater, out of the heat, humidity, and rain. Better for the dancers, yes, but I missed the exuberance of the outdoor stage, where your neighbors might be sharing a picnic, and people have a tendency to cheer. Sitting in the dimmed lights of Koch Theater had the sobering effect of being in church. In its fourth iteration, BAAND Together seems to have become less a celebration and more of a sampler meant to introduce new audiences to ballet.
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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.”
Continue ReadingVous 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.
Continue ReadingThere is probably no more beloved ballet, by audiences and dancers alike, than “Romeo and Juliet.”
Continue ReadingIn 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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And the DTH cast was 6 women and 5 men
The photograph from Night Falls shows dancers Joseph Markey and SunMi Park.