Dance Review: Ballet Builders 2009 at DiCapo

Last week I had the opportunity to go see Ballet Builders 2009 New Choreographers on Point concert at the Dicapo Opera Theatre, in New York City.  Ballet Builders is a wonderful program made possible through public funds which enables new and upcoming choreographers to access dancers and create works for a public forum.  According to […]

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Dance Review: Nai-Ni Chen’s Company Rides Magnificently on Cloud Nine at Baruch PAC

Celebrating twenty years of Chinese traditional and contemporary dance magic, Nai-Ni Chen’s company enchants and amazes this past Saturday at the Baruch Performing Arts Center. A former member of Cloud Gate and a native of Taiwan, Chen has the stunning ability to fuse her Chinese heritage with her experience as an American immigrant, a fusion […]

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Dance Review: Bear Crown: A Theatrical Dance Performance, Ivy Baldwin at DTW

Ivy Baldwin’s performance of Bear Crown at Dance Theater Workshop (DTW) on Friday night can best be described as a theatrical performance with some dancing thrown in. The title of the piece, Bear Crown is a brand of beer which the dancers would drink while in residency in Romania. The performance began with a recording […]

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Dance Review: Brown is the new bombshell as Brown Girls Burlesque “liberate the exotic primitive”

Brown Girls Burlesque (BGB) took a sold out house to school with their risqué acts at the Bowery Poetry Cub on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. With long held taboos shattered with a toss of a bra and “peek-a-boo” bright and sparkly pasties, this show took myths and stereotypes of brown love, and, within two hours, […]

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