Thursday, October 16, 2014
"I think in the beginning the challenge for me was to really feel like a ballet dancer since I didn’t grow up just doing ballet. I felt like an intruder, a jazz dancer trying to do bal…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 14, 2014
"And dance is not my job. It’s my life. It’s who I am.” Alessandra Ferri.
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, October 13, 2014
"I always knew I would be a dancer. I always loved and connected with Tap the most – from growing up watching movie musicals with my Grandma to seeing Diane Walker and Jimmy Slyde on s…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 10, 2014
Matthew Westerby, Colleen Thomas and Bill Young...Distinctly different visions come together in one show at Triskelion Arts.
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SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 7, 2014
"Crawling on all floors, belly to the ground like a soldier, then spinning ferociously and leaping through, on, and over the newspapers, Wolcott creates numerous sculptural islands and canyo…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, October 6, 2014
"How can the performers really connect with the audience? How can the audience really connect with the dancers and not just sit back and judge them?..." says RoseAnne Spradlin.
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"The intimate West End Theatre is a perfect venue for dances laced with nuances and subtle shifts." Deirdre Towers, New York, NY.
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 5, 2014
"Our own bodies are implicated from the start, submerged in Lerman’s investigation as we enter the theater through a back door and shuffle past a series of tableaux vivants." Robert Jo…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"I've always known I wanted to make things. I've always been overwhelmed by powerful story telling – in the body, in song, in spoken and written language – and dancing wa…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Though burlesque artists are known for taking their clothes off, costuming is vital to their routines.“Clothing provides so much texture, context, and opportunity for a richer experien…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"Reimagining dark swan on Urban Bush Women, a legendary American dance company, was a beautifully challenging invitation," says Nora Chipaumire.
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"In We Are Still Watching, she recasts show-goers as performers, and we spend an hour reading aloud a play, randomly passing around scripts to ensure everyone has a go in the spotlight." Eri…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Dancers of the Martha Graham Dance Company dish on their favorite threads, signature looks and costume mishaps.
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]" A bow to the Russian traditions of the art form, all dances featured music by ballet’s musical godfather, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky." Henning Rübsam, New York, NY.
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"And so, over the two evenings of Abraham's most recent group works, presented at New York Live Arts last month, this old, straight Jewess attempted to get with the program." Mindy Aloff…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, September 29, 2014
"More Than Just a Piece of Sky is a work driven by fractured text...The piece also draws inspiration from the Barbra Streisand movie musical 'Yentl' " Garnet Henderson, Long Island C…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"Set in New York as Hurricane Sandy is about to ravage the city, Theseus is in the grip of a midlife crisis. Accompanied by a transgender Ariadne and on his way to choreograph a flashy numbe…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"Our interaction is like the movement of Ping Pang Qiu (table tennis)," says Tim Yip on his collaboration with Akram Khan.
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 23, 2014
"Molissa Fenley must be a captivating conversationalist. I‘ve never spoken to her, but it’s the way her choreography speaks to me that leads to the thought. Her language is vivid…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, September 22, 2014
"Using ballet dancers who don pointe shoes which are hung on silver poles and painted with each of the fourteen colors used in Seurat’s painting, she maps the dots through their footwo…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"It begins like every horrible tour you've been on before. There are stragglers, complainers, and avid Instagrammers...Set in the rolling hills of Green-Wood Cemetery, “Crossing Ov…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 16, 2014
"Three Acts, while providing an exhilarating experience for its audience, only scratches the surface of this potential interplay between art forms," Garnet Henderson, New York, NY.
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"When I entered FIT’s stunning new exhibit “DANCE & FASHION” last Friday morning for a press preview, Dr. Valerie Steele, the director and chief curator of the museum, exci…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]During the festival’s intensely paced twelve days, audiences will have the opportunity to experience a range of performances by artists that challenge heteronorms and the status quo on…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"Wheeldon has indicated that he strove to create something akin to a Broadway musical... Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland feels less like a splashy spectacle on the Great White Way and…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 12, 2014
Racism douses the light. “It dupes the world and robs all of us by stealing our humanity and smothering our identities,” states Bauman.
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 11, 2014
"Channeling the craft of short story writing, dance makers are given a “maximum” of five minutes to make a clear artistic statement while dancing on a stage that, for most movers…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 9, 2014
"Sun/Son is a multidimensional dance experience that seeks to excavate the meaning of freedom that exists in a metaphorical and realistic form."
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, September 8, 2014
Through this event, we wish to achieve the dual purpose of celebrating and honoring peace, through listening, a united moment of silence - a call for Peace in our world." Jacqulyn Buglisi, C…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 2, 2014
"Triskelion Arts of Williamsburg is moving to Greenpoint! Already, as of June 2014, in the midst of construction, 45 companies had been booked to perform at the new Triskelion Arts betwe…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, September 1, 2014
"Shakedown is a perspective shift. It is a reminder that dance is for everyone, it has the power to transform...and is a needed source of joy in this confusing and sometimes difficult world"…
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