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Other Delights
REVIEWS | Candice Thompson

Other Delights

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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Song and Dance
REVIEWS | Victoria Looseleaf

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.”

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Running in Circles

Running 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

Performance

Simone Forti/Rudy Perez

Place

Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, California, November 10 & 24, 2024 

Words

Victoria Looseleaf

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Eye Candy
REVIEWS | Lorna Irvine

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
REVIEWS | Gracia Haby

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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Moving Portraits

Moving 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...

Performance

On View: Icons, a film by Sue Healey

Place

Sylvia Staehli Theatre, Dancehouse, Melbourne, November 29, 2024

Words

Gracia Haby

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Falling for Hubbard
REVIEWS | Roísín O'Brien

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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Dream Come True
REVIEWS | Victoria Looseleaf

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. 

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The Tragedy of Hamlet

The 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.

Performance

“The Tragedy of Hamlet: Prince of Denmark” directed by Robert Lepage, choreographed by Guillaume Côté

Place

Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Millennium Park, Chicago, November 24, 2024

Words

Róisín O'Brien

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Coming into the Light
INTERVIEWS | Victoria Looseleaf

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
REVIEWS | Karen Hildebrand

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.

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Dance Critics' Festival

Dance 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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