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Dd Response: Tango with Gabriel Misse & Analia Centurion
On Friday April 5, Gabriel Misse and Analia Centurion brought a slice of Argentina to the Big Apple. The evening’s event marked the end of a two-week series of tango workshops, milongas, and...
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Dd Response: E-Moves 14
Harlem Stages presented E-Moves 14, a three-night series spanning two weekends, on Friday, April 12, 13, and 19. I had the pleasure of attending the program presented on Friday, April 13, which...
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Dd Response: Stephen Petronio Company’s Spring Revival at the Joyce
Spring is the season when the least mystical of New Yorkers find themselves praying for some kind of natural and personal resurrection, rolling the boulder away to emerge from the cave of winter. Last...
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Dd Response: Ballet BC at Irvine Barclay Theatre
Before Saturday at the Irvine Barclay Theater, the last time I had seen Rachel Meyer and Darren Devaney dance together was five years ago, during a rehearsal for my piece at San Francisco Conservatory...
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Dd Response: Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet at the Joyce Theater
On Friday, May 10, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet presented an evening of original, contemporary works at New York City’s Joyce Theater. Cedar Lake dancers in Horizons; photo by Paula Lobo Jiri...
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Dd Response: Dance Against Cancer
The Dance Against Cancer benefit opened on an empty stage. Instead of watching the dancers, we heard them as they described their connection to their benefit and why they were dancing–or rather, who...
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“Drama is contrast”: Pam Tanowitz’s ‘The Spectators’ at NYLA
For The Spectators at New York Live Arts, which I saw on May 17, choreographer Pam Tanowitz created a theatrical experience that unfolded dramatically, though the piece was without characters or...
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Dd Response: Finding Diverse Points of Reference in NYCB’s All Robbins Program
There are many choreographers who have neither the depth of ideas nor range to sustain a full evening and whose work is best suited to splitting a bill with another artistic voice. Jerome Robbins is...
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Missed Connections: Gwen Welliver’s “Beasts and Plots”
“Lines in the the body, between people and things,” the program notes quote Gwen Welliver as saying, “are common forms of human communication.” In Beasts and Plots, however, Welliver’s latest work at...
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Dd Response: Unpacking Paradox in ABT’s Shostakovich Trilogy
Dmitiri Shostakovich is the kind of artist whose work invites intrigue. He composed under an intensely fearful and repressive regime, prompting many of his listeners to try to read between the phrases...
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Dd Response: Post:Ballet at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in SF
In San Francisco, excitement is building for Robert Dekker’s Post:Ballet, a small and relatively new company with all the markings of professionalism. I attended their fourth annual home season...
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360 Degrees of Jaw-Dropping Dance at Cedar Lake
“They are 32. They are young, driven and talented. During the past weeks they have had to confront their fears and weaknesses while immersing themselves in the professional dance world of Cedar Lake....
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Jon Yanofsky: Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts’ New Executive Director
The Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts has been presenting world-class programming to South Brooklyn’s multicultural audiences since 1954. Though the Center’s steady organizational balance and...
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Dd Response: Week 1 of Ballet v6.0 at the Joyce
When asking the big questions like “Is there a God?” and… “What is contemporary ballet in 2013?” artists (and believers) are searching for a raison d’etre. The curators of Ballet v6.0—a contemporary...
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An Evening of Film: Fordham Alumni Company’s CANNED ART Festival
I never go to the movies. Perhaps it’s because of the sticker shock every time I see the ticket price. It might be because New York City movie theaters have a reputation for bedbug infestation and I,...
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Dd Response: Week 2 of Ballet v6.0 at the Joyce
During the second week of the Joyce’s Ballet v6.0 festival, Whim W’Him, BalletCollective, and Jessica Lang Dance presented evenings of contemporary ballet that far surpassed those I attended in week...
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Dd Response: “I Have Lived a Thousand Years”
A copy of “I Have Lived a Thousand Years,” a Holocaust memoir by Dr. Livia Bitton-Jackson, sits on a bookshelf in my parent’s house in Michigan. Last Saturday, while there to teach and visit, I picked...
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Dd Response: The CURRENT SESSIONS Volume III, Issue II
This August marked the 2-year anniversary of The CURRENT SESSIONS, a semi-annual, New York City dance series founded by artist, creative director, and producer Alexis Convento. The premise of this...
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Dd Response: Laguna Dance Festival
For almost a decade, The Laguna Dance Festival has been considered a gem in the Southern California dance scene. I discovered it a year ago, when I had just moved to the area from across the country,...
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Dd Countdown to The Bessies
Photo by Christoher Duggan On Monday, October 7th, the 2013 NY Dance and Performance Awards will be held at the Apollo Theater, produced in partnership with Dance/NYC. Affectionately termed “The...
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