Sunday, November 3, 2013
Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener first worked together as dancers in the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. “That was when a dialogue sparked about seeing dance, and loving dance, and ma…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 29, 2013
The performances at the Kumble Theater in Brooklyn, presented by 651Arts, will serve as the New York premiere of Exit/Exist. Maqoma notes the importance of displaying his work to audiences o…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 26, 2013
"I have this vague impressionistic draw toward the idioms of dance," says playwright of House of Dance, Tina Satter. "I don’t want to try to make a dance, but I do always sort of infus…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 25, 2013
"For me, what’s important is to ponder the present time and the society we live in. The world is moving back in time with intolerances, blockages,
tensions that scare me." Angelin Prel…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 24, 2013
"...these sleek dancers tackle works by Sallid, Souleymane Badolo, Thang Dao, Abdel Salaam, Camille A. Brown and Ronald K. Brown in a range of 60's/’70s looks from Flower Power to …
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 23, 2013
In Dark Theater, Heginbotham takes his attraction to the dramatic to a new level, incorporating surrealist elements inspired by Dada artist, Francis Picabia. It’s an idea that came, qu…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Just in time for Halloween, Big Dance Theater will present their acclaimed 2012 work, Ich, Kürbisgeist, at New York Live Arts in collaboration with playwright Sibyl Kempson and members of B…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 16, 2013
The company’s October performance offers a little bit of everything: from an original dance-HORROR film,219 Gates; to #64 which is “just about the movement” ; to the qu…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"The Umbrella Collective aims to prove to young choreographers that it really is possible to stay true to yourself while presenting dance in this often overwhelming city." Theo Boguszews…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"Things lurk beneath the surface, sometimes erupting and offering clarification or complication. These women stampede your vision with power." Anneke Hansen, Choreographer, New York
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"To present one of America’s master choreographers’ responses to the Nijinsky/Stravinsky opus at that work’s 100th anniversary was a stroke of genius. The company under the…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 15, 2013
"I love William Forsythe. I hate William Forsythe. I’ve had this back-and-forth with many people, and with myself." Cory Nakasue, Brooklyn, NY.
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, October 14, 2013
"Blood, Muscle, Bone cohered for me more in retrospect as a germinating idea than in actual execution. As Lerman noted, the topic of economic inequity is 'loaded and not something people…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"We are interested in producing works that are fresh, raw, experimental and curious; we want to provide our audience with a glimpse of what dance is right now, and what the future generation…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"In crowd favorite Refract, Deborah Lohse, sporting a frock constructed of chandelier crystals, reflexively struts and vogues ... much to the frustration of the designer, Project Runway All …
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 11, 2013
Lubovitch’s signature movement — academic classicism rooted in breath, weight, and freedom — surges with a radiant splendor. Spotlighting crisp edges, expansive arm gesture…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 10, 2013
"Do it from your heart. I always did that, taught from my heart," Eugene Louis Faccuito aka "Luigi" -New York.
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 9, 2013
The Directors of the 92nd Street Y dance programs, said, “You know Janis, you’ve spent the last six or seven years honoring all of your mentors... why don’t you have people…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"Zustiak casts his zombies as dead-pan (excuse the pun) construction workers who methodically analyze what can be done with a dead, naked body." Deirdre Towers, New York, NY.
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 8, 2013
"There appeared to be general agreement that the isolated, rural setting--and the freshness of meeting many of their fellow residents for the first time–actually fostered a useful vuln…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"lthough defining the alchemical combination of choreography, performance, and design that results in a transcendent show is impossible, our master writers relish dance performances laden wi…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 4, 2013
"This year, for the first time, choreographer Clare Cook contributes her own dance making style to the festival. Under My Skin, a duet for Liz Beres and Justin Henry, reveals the blush of a …
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 3, 2013
"The ending of this piece seemed inevitable. Two girls, icing and cake crumbs smeared across their faces, crowded under a table, messily consuming their confectionary masterpiece." Theo Bogu…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]“I believe I have always been on the side of dance but not the center of it, just kind of following my own step and doing work that had meaning to me...” Lar Lubovitch, New York
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"Cabaret vocalists, Aïtas live at the margins of society, reputations smeared by their association with seedy nightclubs.  These women, powerful in their chanting and singing, are not …
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 2, 2013
"Tragically, polio cut her career short in 1956 while touring in Europe, only five years after George Balanchine had married her, his fifth (and last) wife, with only ten years of performing…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, September 30, 2013
"Virtuosity and entertaining spectacles are all shrugged away in deference for spare images and provocative questions posed by inimitable personalities." Deirdre Towers, New York.
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 29, 2013
"Chip, played convincingly by Broadway sensation Ryan Steele, comes to New York City form Kansas armed with nothing but a sleeping bag and an extension to die for." Cory Nakasue, New York
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"While the concept of relating the erotic and exciting Flamenco dance to its old world origins is laudable, Encounter of Two Worlds connects the dance form to erroneous roots." Elana Aquino,…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM[SHARE]"We worked a lot in the British Library in London. Recording things in the coffee bar, and then going into the reading room itself together in order to test them. Or reading bits of text to …
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