A Danced Rituel
When Frank Gehry was tapped to be the architect of Walt Disney Concert Hall, home to both the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Master Chorale, he envisioned the space to be “a living room for the city.”
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One of the reasons to see “Is it Thursday Yet?,” the new collaboration between choreographers Sonya Tayeh and Jenn Freeman inspired by Freeman’s diagnosis with Autism Spectrum Disorder, has little to do with the show itself. “Is it Thursday” is part of the inaugural season at the Perelman Arts Center (known as PAC NYC), a new arts complex designed by the architect Joshua Ramus at the World Trade Center. It is a chance to check out the center’s interior spaces and get a sense of how it fits into the larger NY theater scene. Upcoming performances include a one man show by Laurence Fishburne and an opera about a Chinese-American soldier who was killed in Afghanistan. Next summer the Perelman will host a reimagined version of the Andrew Lloyd Weber musical “Cats,” seen through the lens of a dance style that developed in New York in the 1980s, called Ballroom. It seems that there will be something for everyone.
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When Frank Gehry was tapped to be the architect of Walt Disney Concert Hall, home to both the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Master Chorale, he envisioned the space to be “a living room for the city.”
Continue ReadingSan Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House is a grand, gracious theater, so it was a big deal to see the San Francisco Ballet School hold its end-of-year performances in that hall for the first time since at least 1985.
Continue ReadingAt its heart, “Sylvia” is a ballet about the resistance to love—a theme that continues to resonate deeply, as the human spirit often recoils from love, driven by fear, pride, a need for control, or the weight of duties and moral constraints.
Continue ReadingSince the 1970s, the Paris Opera Ballet has cultivated a distinctive tradition of nurturing its own dancers as emerging choreographers.
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