as the tap artist Tamango reminds me, ""Going into rhythm connects you to other people --you realize that we are all one." - Christine Jowers, New York
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 08:00PM[SHARE]The Downtown Dance Festival, which has become the city's longest-running free public dance festival, will mark its 40th anniversary this summer!! Newly renamed the Battery Dance Festival, th…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 05:40PM[SHARE]The 31st Annual Bessie Awards will take place on Monday, October 19, 2015, at 7:30pm, at the legendary Apollo Theater in New York City. The 2015 ceremony will mark the Bessie Awards' fifth y…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 04:05PM[SHARE]"Millions of mannequins stand in stores throughout our world and we rarely question them or their function. We do not think about their gender, bodies, or idealized appearance... Through Ski…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 08:00PM[SHARE]There is a logic that defies the logical mind, and tonight it stands firmly on the collapsing walls on the stage of the Théâtre du Rond Point in the form of Victoria Thierrée-Chaplin's …
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 08:00PM[SHARE]"For Marie- Christine Giordano, the goal is not just to mentor her charges, but to provide a structured and supportive environment in which a child can thrive and the self emerge." A POS…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 08:00PM[SHARE]Sperling, the foremost interpreter of modern dance pioneer Loie Fuller (1892-1968), had the enviable opportunity to dance on Arctic ice as the guest of oceanographer Robert Pickart (Woods Ho…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 08:00PM[SHARE]Drawing participants from around the world, Tap City has been a place to share new ideas and collaborate on new productions in celebration of a vibrant and diverse global tap community. "The…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 08:00PM[SHARE]"The New York City Ballet presented four casts of Midsummer in the last week of its spring season. I saw two of them. One performance featured marvelous acting, which gave the work a suspens…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 08:00PM[SHARE]"Humanity can get so puffed up. Sometimes we need a dance to remind us we are part of nature." Robert Johnson, New York. Â
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 08:00PM[SHARE]"I called this piece IKIRU because all those dancers or artists I met or knew - like Pina Bausch or Merce Cunningham or Michael Jackson -Â are gone, but I am still alive and I can still d…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 08:00PM[SHARE]"We are all committed to the idea of never having the same show twice. That has been important. We talk about it when we are standing in the wings about to go on." Rebecca Stenn, Choreog…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 08:00PM[SHARE]"Cedar Lake's existential crisis unexpectedly became dire, when the company announced in March that it was closing and the BAM performances would be its last. ...Staying true to form, in its…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 08:00PM[SHARE]"I can't say the decision to use Escher, Bacon and Rothko as inspiration for this project was random, but I am also not totally sure if there is a deep statement in combining the…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 04:07PM[SHARE]"Even though the evening is intended to follow strict protocol, something is brewing under this perfect veneer. We become witnesses to a transformation as these young debutantes grapple with…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 08:00PM[SHARE]"When we embarked on our WEA initiative, we knew we wanted to attract more teens and young adults to our programs, but we didn't know what was keeping them away in the first place. By conduc…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 08:00PM[SHARE]Herrera had been scheduled to make her farewell later during the Metropolitan Opera House season, in the new production of "Sleeping Beauty" staged by Alexei Ratmansky. Yet after she tried o…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 07:34PM[SHARE]Don't Miss -WEDNESDAY NIGHTS WALK-THROUGH WITH MUNA TSENG- Muna Tseng, acclaimed NYC choreographer and Tseng Kwong Chi's sister, will offer walk-throughs of the exhibition "Tseng Kwo…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 08:00PM[SHARE]How often does an audience have the opportunity to see work from three acclaimed contemporary dance choreographers, whose careers span between two to four decades, together on one stage? Not…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 07:38PM[SHARE]In Alexandra Beller's "milkdreams," which will receive its premiere at La MaMa, she revisits this golden age of infants and toddlers when reflexive self-censoring hasn't yet set in..."milkdr…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 08:00PM[SHARE]Through her documentary, The Game Changer, Indrani Kopal expects to create awareness about prison rehabilitation and educational programs...and to inspire others to explore dance, movement a…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 08:00PM[SHARE]In 2007 Nejla Yatkin started creating dances in public spaces because she felt that ... she needed to make her art available to people from all walks of life and not just people who could af…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 08:00PM[SHARE]"Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater acts a living museum, showcasing four pieces that stretch over 50 years and highlight a variety of choreographic viewpoints," Erin Bomboy, New Jersey.
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