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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.”
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No matter the theme, an evening with David Dorfman Dance is likely to uplift. The gregarious choreographer has a habit of engaging with the audience pre and/or post show with energy approaching that of a church revival gathering. For audiences of Brooklyn’s the Space at Irondale last week, he signed a handwritten note on each program: “I have a proposal—Could we be compassionately tactile with our skin and fervently elastic with our minds.” In his work and in person, Dorfman creates community with and for dance. The company’s newest production, “truce songs,” has a searing resonance, given real world circumstances of war and political vengeance. With eight dancers including Dorfman and Lisa Race, the longtime collaborator to whom he is married, and composers Sam Crawford and Lizzy de Lise, this work speaks to vulnerability and empathy, loss and displacement. What are we willing to risk for peace? What is the power of surrender?
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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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