Thursday, March 28, 2024

Dance Review: Carmen—Passionately Beautiful Flamenco

Antonio Gades’ Company worked it out with their critically acclaimed Carmen (1983) which originally premiered in Paris. This dance/theatre fusion combines the best of classical flamenco, props/theatrical staging, and performing musicians with Bizet’s original opera score from 1875. Ultimately, Carmen was a performance of raw life on stage -a tragic heroine, who could very possibly […]

Dance Review: How the West was Won, One and Fun

Aspen and Santa Fe are a long way from NYC, especially when it is a rainy, cold night.  Thankfully, the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Company brought with them gorgeous dancers and the gorgeous beauty of Colorado and New Mexico.  They took me away for an hour and half, and made me forget that I was […]

Dance Review: Ron Brown’s Work is Evidence of Brilliance

Ron Brown’s Program B is a brilliance sandwich. All three parts are made up of the stuff of brilliance, but the real meat of it is in the middle (appropriately so). That meat is called Walking Out the Dark I, and it is the kind that is fully seasoned and tenderized. The surrounding pieces (the […]

Dance Review: Something old, something new… Jody Oberfelder Dance Projects

This Valentine’s day weekend at Joyce Soho, Jody Oberfelder delivers something old, something new, something borrowed, and nothing blue. The "something old" is a piece called Moved, created in 2003, which makes up the first half of the program. From the first moment, the space is saturated with color, bright orange costumes, and bright faces. […]

Dance Review: Zoe Scofield, Visions of Wild Horses Dancing on Stage

Zoe Scofield did a fab job at DTW with her collaborators including husband (Juniper Shuey), sound engineer (Kamran Sadeghi), her company of five dancers, and the addition of ten local dancers from Barnard College.  The resulting, the devil you know is better than the devil you don’t, presented a baroque-esque performance, a style in which […]

Dance Review: Ronald K. Brown at the Joyce

Ron Brown comes to the Joyce Theater this season evolved. Ron Brown’s company, with concepts, rooted in the African American and African Diaspora, and signature style fueled with African, Brazilian, Contemporary, Ballet and energetic house-styled club dancing, has grown from the once young, unapologetic trendsetting company in the Black American contemporary dance scene to an […]

Dance Review: ANGEL FELICIANO’S THE MOVEMENT MOVES

Angel Feliciano’s performance at the Joyce Soho touched on the dynamics of New York City as a birth place to numerous dreams and a dying hood and thus a dying mother of Hip Hop.  The precision was ridiculously on point and choreography was both witty and intelligent.  Hot hot hot! . . . The evening […]

Dance Review: Buglisi Captivates at the Joyce Theater

I was very excited to see Buglisi Dance Theatre perform at the Joyce.  I had seen reviews about the company in the past and heard that they performed at such festivals as noted as Jacobs Pillow.  I also noticed how intricate their costumes were whenever I saw their pictures in Dance Magazine.  I took my […]

Dance Review- Past/Forward: A Tisch Dance Alumni Celebration

As Cherylyn Lavagnino, the chairperson of the NYU Dance Department, introduces the evening’s program,  she explains how much of an honor it is to have these dancers/choreographers back at the university to display their work.  She explains to the audience that this is a celebration of accomplished alumni that the entire department is looking to […]

Dance Review: Unforgettable Buglisi at the Joyce

  Tuesday night in NYC was a snowy mess and the last thing any dance advocate wanted to do was to go and see modern dance; however, I am so glad I made it out.   Buglisi Dance Theatre has some of the best dancers I have ever seen as well as some of the most […]

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