Paris Opera Ballet – La Source – HD cinema broadcast
...Bart's a gifted and discerning artist, with a deep understanding of the Opera's heritage and style. Rather than trying to "recreate" the long-forgotten original choreography by Arthur St. Leon,...
View ArticlePaul Taylor Dance Company – Perpetual Dawn, Private Domain, Black Tuesday –...
Not the least of Taylor’s genius shows in his choice of dancers. All are superb performers who are also quite handsome to look at. If I were asked to populate an alien world from scratch, I’d begin...
View ArticleMark Morris Dance Group – L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato – New York
L’Allegro, with its painterly tableaux, classical references, and unselfconscious evocations of sex and death, feels both ancient - almost pagan - and perfectly of our time...
View ArticleBasil Twist – Fireworks, Pulcinella Suite, The Rite of Spring – New York
Puppeteer Basil Twist is pushing boundaries again in New York as part of the White Light Festival, with a triple bill based on Stravinsky...
View ArticleThe Mikhailovsky Ballet’s American Debut at the Lincoln Center
Having wowed London with three acclaimed seasons over the last six years, at last the Mikhailovsky Ballet make their American debut in NY. Lisa Snyder introduces the company and its repertoire...
View ArticleInterview: Suzanne Farrell – Artistic Director
We talk to Farrell about her summer program, her approach to teaching aspiring ballet dancers, her studies and work with George Balanchine and also about her her company and its new season at the...
View ArticleAakash Odedra Company – Ink, Murmur – New York
...a perfect example of what can happen when an exceptional practitioner is led astray by an excess of theatrical ideas and special effects.
View ArticlePaul Taylor’s American Modern Dance – David H. Koch season – New York
★★★✰✰ The past few years have seen the beginning of a transformation of the Paul Taylor Dance Company – or, rather, as it’s now known, of Paul Taylor’s American Modern Dance. The company is looking...
View ArticleMark Morris Dance Group – Mozart Dances: Eleven, Double, Twenty-seven – New York
★★★★★ It’s difficult to think of a better way to bid farewell to a New York summer than with Lincoln Center’s “Mostly Mozart” festival, and seeing Mark Morris Dance Group performing Mozart Dances was...
View ArticleSounds of India Festival – Mark Morris Dance Group & Kerala Kalamandalam –...
★★★★✰ This year’s White Light Festival, at Lincoln Center, has spawned a mini-festival of its own, Sounds of India, curated by the modern-dance choreographer Mark Morris. Why Morris? Because he has...
View ArticleMiami City Ballet – Giselle – Fort Lauderdale
★★★★✰ From start to finish, this Giselle was superbly realized: stylistically accurate, visually enchanting and emotionally poignant.
View ArticleMemorable Performances of 2016 – New York
Marina Harss with her personal selection of New York dance memories this last year...
View ArticleSaburo Teshigawara / KARAS – Sleeping Water – New York
★★✰✰✰ There are dances that one figures out in the first five minutes. Hope as one might that the piece will evolve or turn a corner, it soldiers on in the same vein, section after section, until the...
View ArticleMark Morris Dance Group – Love Song Waltzes, I Don’t Want to Love, The Trout...
★★★✰✰ How striking Morris’ dancers are, how diversified in form and unique in expression and cohesive as a troupe — ever present and responsive to each other.
View ArticleAmerican Ballet Theatre – Le Corsaire – New York
★★★★✰ Days after the performance, I cannot get James Whiteside’s Ali out of my head. Devon Teuscher’s Medora is charming and warm, pulling off triple fouettées turns and her Italian fouettées with...
View ArticleBolshoi Ballet – Jewels: Emeralds, Rubies, Diamonds – Brisbane
★★★★★ As you would expect Diamonds was the highlight of the three part Jewels.
View ArticleMark Morris Dance Group – Sport, Empire Garden, V – New York
★★★★✰ Mark Morris Dance Group are currently at the Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival performing a triple bill coupling a new work, "Sport", to the much admired "Empire Garden" and "V".
View ArticleNew York City Ballet – Balanchine + Wheeldon bill & Jewels – New York
★★★★✰ It makes a noticeable difference when Litton, music director of the company, is in the pit; the orchestra has presence and sings, providing a convincing counterpart for the dancing.
View ArticleDavid Gordon’s work (1972/2020) at the Philadelphia FringeArts Festival
David Gordon has been collaging past choreography and present variations, text and narration, video and photographs and graphic arts, personal and cultural history for so long that it is no surprise he...
View ArticleDancers doing it for themselves – Dancers of New York City Ballet present...
There was a rush of emotion at seeing these extraordinary dancers doing the thing they do best. Their energy, precision, and drive, the way they change the space around them, is inspiring...
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