Glass Pieces
This week at the Joyce, the Van Cleef & Arpels Dance Reflections Festival presented its starriest program yet: “Dancing with Glass: The Piano Etudes.”
Continue ReadingWorld-class review of ballet and dance.
This year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe recorded its fifth highest attendance in its history, a different reality from the ghostly years of the Covid-19 pandemic. But the cost-of-living crisis and the strain the arts sector in Scotland has been under in recent years was still there. Notably within the dance sector, this was most apparent at Dance Base, where Assembly Festival, one of the bigger venue operators, collaborated with the dance house to co-curate the programme and help alleviate costs. While it was great that Assembly was able to support Dance Base and its artists to continue to put on their shows, it was still slightly strange seeing the red Assembly branding next to the (newly rebranded) purple colours of Dance Base.
Performance
Place
Words
Starting at $49.99/year
Already a paid subscriber? Login
This week at the Joyce, the Van Cleef & Arpels Dance Reflections Festival presented its starriest program yet: “Dancing with Glass: The Piano Etudes.”
Continue ReadingWatching George Balanchine’s “The Nutcracker” the other night at New York City Ballet, I was struck, once again, by the sense of balance it both portrays and embodies.
Continue ReadingAs the lights dim in Sadler’s Wells, I am struck by how dark the theatre I’m sitting in is. These few moments before a show begins create a unique situation of near complete trust on the audience; there’s no light, natural or artificial.
Continue ReadingDuring the past ten years, Jody Sperling has created a portfolio of dance works that calls for action to protect and preserve the environment. She has traveled to the Arctic to dance on disappearing ice.
FREE ARTICLE
comments