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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Dance Review: Deliciously Disgusting Grub, tEEth at Joyce Soho

I moved to New York because New York is where it’s at. The highest concentration of edgy, innovative, shocking, and amazing art is here, so it’s ironic that one of the best performances I’ve seen in NYC is by a company from out of town. The Portland based collective, tEEth, led by Co-Artistic Directors Angelle […]

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Dance Review: An Extravaganza of Fierceness, Monstah Black at DTW

Monstah Black brought a storm of artistic wow performing at Dance Theatre Workshop’s Studio Series on Friday, March 13th. His show “Living Outside the….,” shared Black’s opinions on gender roles and being an individual that challenges the norm and the pressure to fit into a cookie cut lifestyle. The evening consisted of Black’s music woven […]

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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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