When Trisha Brown’s “Foray Forêt” begins, dancers look like shadows against a purple backdrop until the stage fades in to...
He’s on impish form tonight, Richard Alston, and so should he be. This tour (possibly one of the company’s last)...
It’s been nearly 35 years since Steve Paxton, whom the New York Times once dubbed “a titan of the 1960s...
When first developing “Set and Reset” in 1983, Trisha Brown knew that she wanted the work to be a collaboration....
Waterbeds may have been a 70’s fad, but what about inflatable furniture? For a mere $74.95 (with free shipping, who knew?), Amazon offers the sofa of your dreams, one designed with a “waterproof-flocked top surface and a vinyl bottom that provides an incredibly comfortable sitting surface for any occasion.” For Lionel Popkin, a former Trisha Brown dancer and a choreographer who has mined his Hindu/Jewish roots, memorialized Ruth St. Denis and sautéed onions and curried zucchini in a range of works that satisfied, amused and, if not necessarily provoked, left indelible imagery nonetheless.
Six years ago, when I began teaching at the Fashion Institute of Technology for applied and not-so-applied arts, the professors...
