"NYCB's 'Americana x Five' program puts American music in the spotlight, presenting a clutch of ballets with scores that range widely in both style and time." Nicole Dekle Collins, N…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 08:00PM[SHARE]"Stripe Tease is a nod to Davis' design, which features vertical stripes in vibrant colors, and perhaps to Schlichting's interest in repetition. Will this dance tease its audience?" Garnet H…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 05:22PM[SHARE]"I feel that the biggest challenge is always the next thing because you don't want to repeat yourself aesthetically [or] thematically. You always want to keep stretching and changing." Bessi…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 08:00PM[SHARE]"You don't have to understand the verses of the song or the origins of the movement to understand the pain and happiness..." Soledad Barrio, Flamenco artist.
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 08:00PM[SHARE]"Everything this young Irish cast -- most spectacularly Paula O'Reilly -- does rings a bell, brings a smile, or a belly-laugh. " Deirdre Towers, New York.
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 08:00PM[SHARE]"Now 'O, Superman' is doing triple-duty as Anderson tackles a related subject, the US government's mistreatment of a man named Mohammed El Gharani." Robert Johnson, New York.
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 08:00PM[SHARE]"We need this kind of work, because it reminds us of our humanity, or our spirituality. It's all about people, always. It invites us in," Carla Maxwell,  New York.Â
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 08:00PM[SHARE]"Yazbeck glided remarkably from goofy acting, to the pathos of a heartbreaking love song, to the exhilarating athleticism of five-star concert dancing without missing a beat. Such stunni…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 08:00PM[SHARE]"On September 26th, CRAWL: Chapter 4 (a multi-disciplinary, nomadic arts series) occupied one of these warehouses in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn." Melanie Greene, Brooklyn.
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 08:00PM[SHARE]"The potential of 11 seconds was Tharp's inspiration in The One Hundreds...and watching the specificity and challenge of each phrase..feels like tiptoeing on the edge of chaos." Jean Leni…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 08:00PM[SHARE]"Through our Community Action work, we have learned that there is a powerful synergy between domestic violence and dance that helps survivors take their whole self forward"both in body and m…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 08:00PM[SHARE]TDE: This fall The Dance Enthusiast is celebrating 8 years! Can you describe your creative process (perhaps in 8 words or less)? "Immediate, but intricately thought out. Sensitive and bold,"…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 08:00PM[SHARE]"In many ways I think of this piece as an embodied search for missing links in the complex process of creating and forging my identity as a Puerto Rican woman in the United States." Alicia D…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 08:00PM[SHARE]"Like many creatives of her ilk, there is no line dividing between her artistic and personal life. Dancing is a family affair." Trina Mannino, New York.
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 08:00PM[SHARE]"Getting older can, in a word, suck. It's not just the wrinkled brow, the creaky knees, the thinning hair and thickening waist. It's the feeling of irrelevancy, the creeping realizat…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 08:00PM[SHARE]"We invited people to watch our work develop over a six-week period, and audiences loved this. They were able to delve into our pieces and understand that the creative process isn't only the…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 08:00PM[SHARE]"How does a community negotiate and synthesize a dance form that is healing, cultural, entertaining, and academic?" Melanie Greene, New York.
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 08:00PM[SHARE]"I am South African... Coming from Africa, it is very normal to [incorporate] choral work and song in my work. It's part of my universe." Robyn Orlin
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 08:00PM[SHARE]"The Cloud Gate company dance with remarkable grace, conveying a the solidarity of communal living, as well as individual emotions." Deirdre Towers, New York.
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 08:00PM[SHARE]"Petroliunas describes her dances as visits to the past 'combining historical fiction with choose-your-own-adventure.'" Theo Boguszewski, Brooklyn.
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 08:00PM[SHARE]On September 28, Clark Center NYC will begin a weeklong residency at City College Center for the Arts. The residency, will pay tribute to the legendary Clark Center for the Performing Arts, …
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 08:00PM[SHARE]".A dance doesn't have to remember that it has a body. In dance, the body is usually a given. Unlike a book, a dance must remember that it has a soul. Yet in the mirror-world of Tree of Code…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 10:28PM[SHARE]"Within this political climate, if I am going to contribute something, I want it to be...something that can help move the conversation forward." Camille A. Brown, New York
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 08:00PM[SHARE]Now in its fifth year, Jacqulyn Buglisi's 9/11 Table of Silence returned to Lincoln Center with crowds of spectators wrapping around the Josie Robertson Plaza's perimeter.…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 08:00PM[SHARE]"New York is the city that invented queer, or did so much for the queer scene everywhere," Zvonimir Dobrovic, New York.
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 08:00PM[SHARE]"Reviving a collaboration between a choreographer, a composer, and an architect in the kind of space for which it was originally designed was a feat that took several years to accomplish." N…
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