Dance Review: Paul Taylor Dance Company- Modern Classicism with a touch of Comedy

Paul Taylor Dance Company comes to New York’s City Center with a season chock full of so much repertory, it’s hard to choose.  With nearly twenty pieces presented this season (running from Feb 25 through March 15), Paul Taylor brings two New York premiere’s and a host of classic Taylor favorites.  On Wednesday, March 11, […]

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Dance Review: Paul Taylor’s Changes, or How Things Never Change

Paul Taylor’s dancers fiercely deliver the New York premiere of Changes with incredible energy and unending commitment this evening at the New York City Center. The various textures of the sixties are serenaded into existence by The Mamas and The Papas, whose music sets the psychedelic mood for the entire evening. Another mood setter is […]

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Dance Review: Attitudes with Attitude, Armitage Gone! Think Punk!

Karole Armitage, New York’s “punk ballerina” is bringing the 80’s back. The 1980’s in NYC was an era of counterculture, punk, club kids, and cheap loft space. It was all about self-expression, freedom and rebellion, a time which I fantasize about myself. In Think Punk!, Armitage brings this wild energy back with the re-staging of […]

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Dance Review: Paul Taylor is Modern Dance!

The Paul Taylor company danced a flawless, thought provoking, and powerful show Sunday afternoon at New York’s City Center.  The company was able to nail three different pieces of contrasting themes and styles like no other.   This show was so fantastic that I could hardly keep from stopping myself from commenting out loud after each […]

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Dance Review: A Great Night with Paul Taylor Dance Company at City Center, Thursday March 5

There is no doubt how world-famous the Paul Taylor Dance Company is; thus, I was very much looking forward to seeing them in person.  As the performance began, I noticed right away that the audience was full of the company’s returning fans, a mostly older audience, that could relate to various memories of seeing Paul […]

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Dance Review: B.F.A’s in the House! – PAUL TAYLOR at City Center

  Attending the Paul Taylor Company performance at City Center was the most exciting thing that happened to me all week.  I went into the performance never having seen the company perform and left with a really good first impression. My enthusiasm for the company’s performance is not only based on my newfound place as […]

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Dance Review: Intricate Time Passage of Tap, Savion Glover at The Joyce

Savion Glover has a reputation for defying laws of gravity in order to achieve the most dynamic sounds and fastest speeds  possible with his tap shoes. His effortless mastery of executing lightening speed sounds justifies the lingering question, " Is he superhuman?" But, the true lesson that Solo in Time teaches is that Savion Glover […]

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Dance Review: Hit or Mix, New Dance Alliance, Performance Mix Festival

True to the hit or miss nature of mixed programs, the New Dance Alliance, Performance Mix Festival at Joyce SoHo is just that.  On Friday it’s specifically, hit, partial hit, hit, miss, miss, in that order. Hit number one is a multimedia solo by Montréal based George Stamos.  He’s a sinuous, articulate body in black […]

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Dance Review: An Under-whelming Evening at City Center with Paul Taylor Dance Company

Mercuric Tidings, Scudorama, and Esplanade were the three pieces that were performed Friday Night at City Center.  The End. Okay, just kidding, but my mother did teach me that if I didn’t have anything nice to say, then no need to say anything at all; but as a reviewer, that would be rather difficult, and […]

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Dance Review: Flawlessly to the MAX! -Batsheva Dance Company at BAM

Boys and Girls, gather around Daddy Dante and let me tell you of a time when dancers were human and dance pieces were filled with tiny little mistakes.  Dancers occasionally would fall off their leg, or they might miss a step, or be out of time with the other dancers, and perform to music that […]

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