Sambas, waterslides, live chickens on stage—nobody does dance theatre like Pina Bausch. The late choreographer’s Wuppertal-based company has just wrapped up a tour of “Masurca Fogo,” created during a three-week residency in Lisbon in 1998 as part of her World Cities series, a collection inspired by the cultures of various urban locales, from Rome to Budapest to Los Angeles.
In a programme by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater you can almost guarantee a performance of formidable athleticism from a...
Few choreographers made work which endures and resonates like the mighty Pina Bausch. She wasn’t just an iconoclastic presence, she...
In the ballet world, female choreographers remain, unfortunately and infuriatingly, the exception rather than the norm. Ballet British Columbia artistic...
Upstage, the company stands in line. As the music builds, the whirring tones of Julia Wolfe’s score for eight double...
The dancers and musicians gather on the stage, the chorus of their voices rising through the auditorium. There’s a Middle...