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Monday, December 21, 2015

Enthusiastic Congratulations To The 2015 United States Artist Fellows! by The Dance Enthusiast

"USA spotlights the importance of originality across every creative discipline, from literature and performance to crafts and theater. Celebrating the breadth of American artistic practices …

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Friday, December 18, 2015

Impressions of yMusic with Dianne McIntyre by The Dance Enthusiast

"McIntrye is a physical manifestation of sound. She fluctuates between responding to the musicians and floating within her own world." Melanie Greene, New York.

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Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Wayne Cilento on Broadway and American Dance Machine for the 21st Century by The Dance Enthusiast

"ADM21 can be thought of as Lee Theodore's company in a second life, and a robust second life it is. The director of this year's edition is Bronx-born, Westchester-reared Broadway ph…

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Monday, December 14, 2015

Free WORK OF ART Program Designed to Help Dancers Build Entrepreneurial Skills by The Dance Enthusiast

"This WORK OF ART toolkit provides a comprehensive, adaptable, artist-focused approach to entrepreneurial development and arms artists with strategic economic and business visioning and plan…

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Impressions of luciana achugar's "An Epilogue for Otro Teatro: True Love" by The Dance Enthusiast

"So subtle as to be almost unnoticeable, the lights dim, the volume amplifies, and the clump splinters. The movement grows wilder, uglier, bolder." Erin Bomboy, New York.

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Impressions of Twyla Tharp's 50th-Anniversary Tour by The Dance Enthusiast

"Nothing is ever what it was, but watching Tharp disport herself here, waving at us from a 50th-anniversary platform heaped with bouquets, who could say the golden age of American dance is o…

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Sunday, December 13, 2015

A Holiday Gift Guide for Every Dance Enthusiast by The Dance Enthusiast

Want to find the perfect present for your dance enthusiast friends. We have some ideas!  

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Thursday, December 10, 2015

CUNY Dance Initiative Sets 2016 Residencies by The Dance Enthusiast

"We are very pleased to offer residencies to 23 dance companies and choreographers throughout CUNY. The previous residencies added an important dimension to the cultural life of our campu…

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Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Impressions of BalletX's "Beasts" by The Dance Enthusiast

"This is the start of BalletX's 10th Anniversary season, and they're kicking it off with a new ballet that explores evolution and the perennial debate of nature versus nurture." Philadelphia…

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Monday, December 7, 2015

Impressions of Pavel Zuštiak and Palissimo Company's "Custodians of Beauty" by The Dance Enthusiast

"Zuštiak writes his pensive odes with a corporeal language that resonates with sad overtones." Deirdre Towers, New York.

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Sunday, December 6, 2015

Impressions of Ronald K. Brown/Evidence, a Dance Company by The Dance Enthusiast

"Ronald K. Brown/Evidence, a Dance Company provides a respite in a vulnerable time." Trina Mannino, Brooklyn.

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Thursday, December 3, 2015

Back, In a Solo Again"with Friends: Keigwin + Company Return to The Joyce by The Dance Enthusiast

"Actually Keigwin thrives when surrounding himself with bright, shiny creative types, and wrangling doesn't seem necessary... He has that magic glimmer in his eye, which easily promises any …

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Impressions of Complexions Contemporary Ballet's "Chronicle" by The Dance Enthusiast

"Rhoden treats the body as a source of endless possibility. Dancers chomp through dizzying, cyclonic sequences with lusty exultation." Erin Bomboy, New York.

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Tuesday, December 1, 2015

IMPRESSIONS OF: Pilobolus in "Shadowland" by The Dance Enthusiast

"The work brings us back to childhood, when nighttime shadows on the bedroom wall inspired a world of imagination." Theo Boguszewski, New York.

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Impressions from Philadelphia: Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers by The Dance Enthusiast

"Home is a moving, compelling look at the immigrant experience. The show grew out of personal experience and community input." Naomi Orwin, Philadelphia. 

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Monday, November 30, 2015

A Day in the Life of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's Robert Battle by The Dance Enthusiast

"From the fervor and commitment that's evident from the start, it's clear this new work " the first choreography he has made for the Ailey troupe since becoming its artistic director…

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Sunday, November 29, 2015

Impressions of Jean Butler's "this is an Irish dance" by The Dance Enthusiast

"Even when they aren't locked into one another's gaze, the musician and dancer are wholly connected, the space between them full of intention." Garnet Henderson, New York.

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Impressions of Jeff Seal and The Raving Jaynes by The Dance Enthusiast

"In their split-bill program at Triskelion Arts, Seal and improv duo the Raving Jaynes make it their goal to elicit laughter lots of it." Erin Bomboy, Brooklyn.

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Impressions of Peter Kyle Dance's "Vigilance" by The Dance Enthusiast

" A pale, thin piece of fabric hung between the audience and the stage to ever-so-slightly obscure the dancers, who introduced a series of intricately folded paper sculptures." Nicole Loeffl…

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Monday, November 23, 2015

IMPRESSIONS OF: Axis Dance Company and Heidi Latsky Dance by The Dance Enthusiast

"To celebrate the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990, NYU's Skirball Center recently produced a singular evening, bringing together the 15-year-old, New York-based…

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Impressions of "Sylvie Guillem - Life in Progress" by The Dance Enthusiast

"Her artistry and curiosity made the transition from world's greatest ballerina to world's greatest dancer a seamless one" Henning Rübsam on Sylvie Guillem. 

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Letter from L.A.: Gratitude for Forsythe's Words; De Keersmaeker's Dispel of Darkness by The Dance Enthusiast

"When news of the Paris massacres broke, it was the static and historic arts centers that both fixed the moment in time and provided an imaginative refuge beyond it," Jean Lenihan, Los Angel…

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Sunday, November 22, 2015

Impressions of the Chamber Dance/Opera "Hagoromo" by The Dance Enthusiast

"She [Wendy Whelan] and [Jock] Soto had a famous partnership at NYCB. In Hagoromo, which brings them together onstage for the first time in 10 years, their rapport seems as strong as ever." …

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Impressions of "together + separately" by The Dance Enthusiast

"together + separately combines the experimental forces of three post-modern downtown darlings for an evening of movement construction and contemplation." Melanie Greene, Brooklyn.

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Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Impressions of: Volmir Cordeiro in "INÊS" by The Dance Enthusiast

"He [Cordeiro] reflects on the terrible price of celebrity and the pitiful and degrading stunts to which those who yearn for fame must lower themselves." Robert Johnson, New York.

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Impressions of: American Ballet Theatre in "The Green Table" by The Dance Enthusiast

"ABT brought back The Green Table giving audiences another chance to view this haunting work in which Jooss strips away all pretense of "realpolitik" or martial glory." Robert Johnson, New Y…

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Monday, November 16, 2015

Sara Rudner on Dancing with Twyla Tharp by The Dance Enthusiast

"Studio time with Twyla was an education in how to work, how to persevere and how to honor whomever was in the room." Choreographer and dancer Sara Rudner, New York.

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Wednesday, November 11, 2015

New York's Heidi Latsky Dance and California's AXIS Dance Company Perform Together by The Dance Enthusiast

"Both women share an interest in the particular qualities that someone with a disability can bring to the stage and hope to break down stereotypes of what a dancer can be." Theo Boguszewski,…

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A Day in the Life of Launch Movement Experiment Collaborators by The Dance Enthusiast

"Usually the best practice for us is meditation, and observing the power of silence before expressing a sound, movement, or light," says Musican Layton Weedeman.

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