New New York City Ballet Demonstrating 21st Century Movement
March 3, 2009 by iDANZ Today
Filed under Ballet, iDANZ Critix Corner -Dance Reviews, Reviews
New York City Ballet remains true to Balanchine’s dream of having a genuine American ballet company performing a repertoire of contemporary masterpieces. The Company, as it is often referred to, does as its name suggests-epitomize the American form of classical dance. The fast pace and aggressive desire to achieve, that exist in the city of […]
Dance Review: Taylor’s Spring Break in Mexico keeps going and going!
March 2, 2009 by iDANZ Today
Filed under Concert Modern -Jazz-Contemporary, iDANZ Critix Corner -Dance Reviews, Reviews
Paul Taylor worked his magic with two excerpts from his works on ‘dreams’, De Sueños y De Sueños que se Repiten (2007), and the more well known Funny Papers (1994). Taylor a former Graham principal established himself as a virtuoso performer in the 50s before patterning two companies after his stylized technique. Taylor is a […]
Dance Review: Still Contemplating Becoming -Dean Moss & Yoon Jin Kim at DTW
March 1, 2009 by iDANZ Today
Filed under iDANZ Critix Corner -Dance Reviews, Performance Art - Dance, Reviews
Kisaeng are Korean young women trained in the arts for the entertainment of aristocracy. In Kisaeng becomes you, at Dance Theater Workshop, Dean Moss and Yoon Jin Kim invite selected audience members to "become" Kisaeng. Not really, but they are placed in the uncomfortable position of being onstage for our entertainment, paralleling momentarily the lives […]
