Dance Review: Mandance Project Defines Dance

The stage was transformed with an all white set, transforming the space into what looked like a room with white walls and floors.  A swinging door on stage left was the entry point for 5 male dancers as they walked out onto stage and took their positions.  What came next was fire, fire, fire!!!.  Eliot […]

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Dance Review: inDANCE, a Monsoon Rain of “Fabulousness”

There was an inDANCE monsoon last night in NYC…. and it rained "fabulousness" all over SoHo. Hari Krishnan, the choreographer of inDANCE, creates a spectacular palette of creative choreography, color, and costume.  inDANCE is a Bharatanatyam inspired Contemporary Canadian Dance Company made up of a beautifully eclectic group of dancers that have a fierce understanding […]

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Dance Review: The Artist’s Showcase presented by :pushing progress

Manhattan Movement and Arts Center is quickly becoming the new home of edgy, up and coming as well as established companies with large followings. This was clearly demonstrated by the length of the line that wound around the block on 60th street that was made up of people who wanted to see the show.  Many […]

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Dance Review: Queen Godis Spits the Realness at DTW

Queen GodIs (QG) presents a provocative choreo-poem, spitting rhymes, dancing, and singing this past weekend at DTW.  Now, many dancers like to differentiate between dancers and “movers.”  If QG is not a self-professed dancer but rather a “mover,” then there are a whole lot of dancers out there that should really MOVE better!  Her movements […]

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Dance Review: Juilliard Dancers Shine

Juilliard dancers know how to excite an audience with their infinite dancing prowess.  The energy and commitment they bring to the classic works by Mark Morris, Twyla Tharp, and Lar Lubovitch and a new commission by Ohad Naharin, is infectious.  Most particularly, you could feel their excitement for having worked with Ohad Naharin, the Artistic […]

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Dance Review: Crazy Fun with Crazy Head Space @Seaport

Some sensitive issues, like mental illness, shouldn’t be taken lightly.  But there’s some unwritten law that we’re allowed to make fun of ourselves, giving Elizabeth S. Davis, who’s living with bipolar illness, the license to write Crazy Head Space.  This mostly comical musical, performed by Abraxas Stage Company and choreographed by Matthew Neff, celebrates psychological […]

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Dance Review: Ballet Tech? . . . more like Ballet Yech!

Uh oh, . . . the economy is not the only thing suffering right now.  Eliot Feld’s Ballet Tech opened their season Wednesday night, with the “Mandance Project” at The Joyce Theatre in New York.  The opening night gala consisted of three solos, two of which were premieres, the premiere of Spaghetti Ballet, as well […]

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Dance Review: Great Things Come in Small Packages, Atlantic Ballet Theatre of Canada

Atlantic Ballet Theatre of Canada delighted us this past Sunday with a very humorous and unique version of Igor Dobrovolskiy’s ballet, Don Juan. The small, ten dancer company was warmly greeted with a large house at the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College.  Most people came expecting the familiar, intense rendition of […]

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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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