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Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Choreographer Pat Catterson on Dancing while Skyping by The Dance Enthusiast

"No one audience member will be able to see everything that happens, so each will have a different experience. Each will have a different 'NOW.' They too will participate in, albeit …

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"The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" Returns to the Stage by The Dance Enthusiast

"I'm a different artist now. I teach my students to take risks, and it's a risk for me to redo something that had been successful," says choreographer Randy James.

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Monday, January 25, 2016

Impressions of Dance in France: Blanca Li's "Déesses et démones" by The Dance Enthusiast

"The dancers' simple spinning sends out multilayers of fabric to catch and cast shadows on every possible surface and it all comes alive." Ann Moradian, Paris.

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Impressions of Donna Uchizono and The Professionals' "Sticky Majesty" by The Dance Enthusiast

"Trying to describe Donna Uchizono's Sticky Majesty is like trying to describe a reflection in a pool of rippling water: It morphs beyond easy recognition." Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone, Ne…

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A Look at Shannon Gillen's Vim Vigor Dance Company in "Seperati" by The Dance Enthusiast

"The company looks like they've been dancing together forever, though they've only been rehearsing since September." Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone, New York

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Kathryn Posin Reflects While Preparing to Open the 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Festival by The Dance Enthusiast

"Mainly, my message is of joy and gratitude. Even though I'm 72, I feel the same as I did when I was 28. Excited, scared, entertained, and pissed." Kathryn Posin, New York.

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IMPRESSIONS OF: PARSONS DANCE at The Joyce by The Dance Enthusiast

"Parsons Dance does what many other eponymous companies have started to do: invite other choreographers into the fold. Robert Battle and Katarzyna Skarpetowska must crow their good fortune; …

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Sunday, January 24, 2016

The School at Jacob's Pillow announces 2016 Programs by The Dance Enthusiast

It's an exciting time to learn about dance at Jacob's Pillow and to audition for Professional Advancement Programs there.

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Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Impressions of Jillian Peña's World Premiere "Panopticon" by The Dance Enthusiast

"Albrecht and Champlin try " hard " to maintain a steady, impassive execution, but their irrepressible personalities (he's the delicate ingénue while she's the brawny philosopher) smudge th…

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Monday, January 18, 2016

Dance/NYC Hosts its Seventh Annual 2016 Symposium (#dancesymp) by The Dance Enthusiast

This year's Symposium invites participants to explore questions of community and economic development, education, and technology that are central to the future of New York's cultural…

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Lois Greenfield, the Illustrious Dance Photographer, On her new book, "Lois Greenfield:Moving Still" by The Dance Enthusiast

"I am not a dance 'fan'. I am an anthropologist in the world of dance " an outsider... Most dance photographers want to shoot the perfect moment, the perfect arabesque, but because I…

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Dance: Broadway Stage and Screen-The Dance Enthusiast Visits "An American in Paris" by The Dance Enthusiast

"Walsh danced with the Joffrey ballet and Ballet X, before making her Broadway debut. Her experience as both a dance captain and cast member, has expanded and transformed her perspectives on…

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Sunday, January 17, 2016

Impressions of "Costume En Face: A Primer of Darkness for Young Boys and Girls" by The Dance Enthusiast

"The nicknames Hijikata gave to certain movements were exceeded in their strangeness only by the dances themselves, as he developed a new form of modern dance he called Ankoku Butoh ('th…

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Monday, January 11, 2016

Impressions of "Daniil Simkin's Intensio" by The Dance Enthusiast

"Despite its promise to set hearts pounding, though, none of the new dances that Simkin, an American Ballet Theatre principal, has commissioned for this pick-up company has much of an impact…

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Impressions of "The Hard Nut" by The Dance Enthusiast

" I've seen many marvelous Dances of the Snowflakes, but none is more beautiful, more inventive or more exuberant than Morris's." Nicole Dekle Collins, New York.

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Sunday, January 10, 2016

Dance: Broadway (and Off-Broadway) Stage and Screen: "Maurice Hines Tappin' thru Life" by The Dance Enthusiast

The 72-year-old Hines, who has the plumb line posture of a West Point cadet, is both headliner and youthfully vigorous subject." Mindy Aloff, New York.

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Impressions of Meredith Monk & Anne Waldman by The Dance Enthusiast

"The evening begins with a husky, disembodied voice rhythmically stringing together indecipherable phrases as a waterfall projection cascades against the St. Marks Church sanctuary backdrop.…

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Thursday, January 7, 2016

Dance: Broadway Stage and Screen - Considering Jack Cole by The Dance Enthusiast

"Cole took off the gloves, ripping into his canvas " cinema's rectangle. A creature of the atomic age, he fissured it like an A-bomb, a Pollack painting. He splintered the screen, etching it…

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Announcing the 2016 Artist Services Day @BAX - February 7th, 2016 by The Dance Enthusiast

Join BAX on Artist Service Day Sunday February 7th, 2016!!!  BAX Artist Services Day features an array of talks and workshops designed to support working dance, theater, performance artis…

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Monday, January 4, 2016

Dancing In the Line of Duty: Danny J. Santana, Dancer and United States Navy Officer by The Dance Enthusiast

Danny Santana: [The Dance Enthusiast] has been the one stable platform I can rely on wherever I am in this world. Seeing all your featured artists and how they're succeeding in their communi…

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Impressions of American Dance Machine for the 21st Century by The Dance Enthusiast

"But here was musical theater in all its glory " an exuberant, tipsy celebration in which a tireless and precise ensemble sang and danced the night away upstage." Susan Reiter, New York.

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Impressions of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in Robert Battle's "Awakening" by The Dance Enthusiast

"With Awakening, accorded its world premire by AAADT at City Center this season, Battle has given the company its first work by him since he became its formal leader." Mindy Aloff, New York.

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Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Erik Madigan Heck and Elena Vazintaris on "The Enemy" by The Dance Enthusiast

"Protesting police brutality and the infringement of our basic civil rights is a duty that we all have, it affects all of us." Filmmaker and Photographer Erik Madigan Heck.

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Impressions of Andy de Groat & Catherine Galasso's "get dancing" by The Dance Enthusiast

"In spoken text during the program, she reveals that she relied for her reconstructions mainly on discussions with de Groat in Paris and via email; the film record; and on the memories of or…

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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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