NYCB On and Offstage
New York City Ballet concluded its 75th anniversary year with its traditional summer residency upstate at the amphitheater of Saratoga Springs’s Performing Arts Center (SPAC).
Continue ReadingWorld-class review of ballet and dance.
Ever since Thomas Edison hand-tinted the swirling skirts of modern dance pioneer Loïe Fuller in the film version of the 1905, Danse Serpentine, there’s been an interest in capturing this most ethereal art form on celluloid. Flash forward, then, to 2024 and the 22nd iteration of Dance Camera West (DCW), the annual festival dedicated to the intersection of cinematography and choreography.
Founded in 2002 by Lynette Kessler and Kelly Hargraves, with Hargraves, after leaving for a few years in 2009, again helming DCW since 2018—but solo—this year’s festival takes place January 25 through January 28 at Barnsdall Art Park’s Gallery Theatre in Hollywood, a Unesco Heritage site. (Past festivals partnered with other prominent L.A. venues, including the Music Center, the Hammer Museum and BroadStage.)
New York City Ballet concluded its 75th anniversary year with its traditional summer residency upstate at the amphitheater of Saratoga Springs’s Performing Arts Center (SPAC).
Continue ReadingThe inaugural Unite Ballet Festival, directed by Calvin Royal III, took place at the Joyce Theater from August 13-18, 2024.
FREE ARTICLEBefore digital audio, compact discs, cassette tapes with their ribbons of sound sandwiched within a small case, and pressed vinyl records, came wax cylinders to record and reproduce sound, thanks to Thomas Edison’s 1877 invention of the hand-cranked phonograph.
Continue ReadingFar from Southern Spain, but in the heart of Hollywood, that once monthly dance staple, “Forever Flamenco,” was alive and well again at the Fountain Theatre, if only for the month of August.
Continue Reading
comments