Thursday, January 30, 2014
Once upon a time, it was easy for dance artists to believe all they had to do was create performances and audiences would come.
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 28, 2014
"Christopher Williams danced Douglas Dunn’s younger, inner self, flaunting a deliberately awkward, spastic charm...Williams mastered Dunn’s style so well that their duets appeare…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, January 27, 2014
"To ‘check your body at the door’ means to leave all baggage at the door and to enjoy one’s self to the fullest. Underground clubs were a safe haven where ‘Clubheads,…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 23, 2014
" Lanky and lace-clad, her dancing is slippery and distorted, like a late-night partygoer stumbling home after too many glasses of wine. Sometimes, she pauses and stares at us with the fixed…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 22, 2014
"In …Too Freedom… Adrienne Truscott puts her “day job” as a house manager at The Kitchen front and center....The spotlighting of latecomers is satisfying becaus…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"Bory has created "Plexus" as a portrait of Kaori Ito... Even with brief moments of strange, disturbing beauty that intrigue, we sense there many empty spaces between those thousands of stri…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]“The title also refers to my monologue in the piece, which is an open letter from a character who is both Denzel and me. It’s semi-biographical, and he is relinquishing the power…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 16, 2014
"Watching [Michelle] Boulé put on her simple blue rehearsal attire one piece at a time (such a mundane and often private act) is in some ways even more intimate than witnessing her nakednes…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"In their collaboration 13 Love Songs: dot dot dot, Ishmael Houston-Jones and Emily Wexler poke holes in the thin veneer of pop love songs and, more broadly, popular ideas about love. They a…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Mere mention of the company’s name brings robust athleticism to mind. The company is also known for being widely traveled; they have toured the entire United States, Asia, and South Am…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Aerial artist and Grounded Aerial founder Karen A. Fuhrman tells The Dance Enthusiast what It feels like to ‘fly’.
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 8, 2014
"For me, the space [the Chocolate Factory] —two shoebox-like rooms with windows on their far walls, connected by an awkward staircase and a sloping floor—combines aspects of drea…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, January 6, 2014
"And if you've never seen Urban Bush Women, I think you'll see a part of our legacy of strong powerful women on stage who don't back down from their strength, their femininity, s…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"Enter tonight’s (prima donna): Raja Feather Kelly dressed as Andy Warhol dressed as Warhol’s female alter ego Drella. Perched on 5-inch high platforms, she daintily floats into …
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, December 23, 2013
"So, once again, it’s winter. It’s City Center. And if you thought you knew what makes Ailey Ailey, think again." Eva Yaa Asantewaa, New York, NY.
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"It would be presumptuous of me to claim wholehearted understanding of the Black American experience. What I do know is that most artists dare not even dream of putting together an act like …
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 17, 2013
 "[Nutcracker 1776] strays a little, in a good way, from the same old Nutcracker formula. Our show has more magic, fire tricks, great mice that sword fight, some gymnastics alon…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"Ghost Lines" eschews obvious humor and pathos for something subtler and more insidious — a skulking, lingering, irresistible weirdness." Erin Bomboy, New York.
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, December 16, 2013
"[Robert] Battle reminds us that Ailey, stricken by the death in 1979 of a dear friend, the late modern dancer/choreographer Joyce Trisler, choreographed Memoria with her in mind." Deirdre T…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"Intrigued by how dances imprint themselves on the mind, body, and spirit, Tere O’Connor 's Bleed appropriates the phantoms from his past choreographies to create an archive of new…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"In the world of Nutcracker Rouge, gender is ambiguous and sexuality is abundant. The work navigates the boundaries of art and entertainment; it's not just tits and ass (although there i…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]“Witness exists in the past and speaks to the present, citing detailed research of the Holocaust and asking observers to reflect on the power of choice.” Megan Kendzior, New Y…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"Being a resident at New York Live Arts is one of many experiences here that feels like a calling---something is calling me towards dance. No one has ever called me a choreographer! Yet, her…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 11, 2013
"Carols provided Leon [E. Leon Evans, II] the platform to feature not only premiere Philadelphia vocalists and singing groups whom he worked with professionally, but also the ‘soul-sti…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"When I first started, 11-12 ago, film was more a man’s world. People were surprised that a woman walked up to them with a video camera. I definitely had to be strong in those situatio…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 10, 2013
"In a brilliant stroke, Martha Clarke casts prima ballerina assoluta Alessandra Ferri as Lea. Ferri, luminous and fine boned, captures the vulnerability swimming beneath the professional par…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, December 9, 2013
"Because the show is curated by popular judgment, conceptual work appears eliminated in favor of flashy, more accessible pieces....Heavily theatrical, five performers hit their heads on clip…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, December 6, 2013
“It can be difficult to find presenting opportunities outside of the traditional showcase format and self-production can be really daunting,” says Triskelion Arts artistic direct…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 5, 2013
Being asked to create a site-specific work for Betsey Johnson was a special milestone as I have appreciated her bold and unorthodox voice as a designer since I was a child. Â Many fashion …
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 4, 2013
"A Brazilian native, Nejman knew that she wanted to incorporate her country's music into the piece. She also wanted to utilize the exposed rear wall in the Dixon Place theater, where &he…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"DRELLA is an alter ego of Warhol’s, a contraction of Dracula and Cinderella. When Kelly decided to create this work, he found himself developing a new movement vocabulary which he cal…
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