Dance Review: Intricate Time Passage of Tap, Savion Glover at The Joyce
March 10, 2009 by iDANZ Today
Filed under Concert Modern -Jazz-Contemporary, Hip Hop/Street/Commercial, iDANZ Critix Corner -Dance Reviews, Other Dance, Performance Art - Dance, Reviews, Theater Dance
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 […]
Dance Review: Hit or Mix, New Dance Alliance, Performance Mix Festival
March 8, 2009 by iDANZ Today
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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 […]
Dance Review: An Under-whelming Evening at City Center with Paul Taylor Dance Company
March 8, 2009 by iDANZ Today
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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 […]
Dance Review: Flawlessly to the MAX! -Batsheva Dance Company at BAM
March 5, 2009 by iDANZ Today
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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 […]
New New York City Ballet Demonstrating 21st Century Movement
March 3, 2009 by iDANZ Today
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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
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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
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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 […]
Dance Review: New Dance Alliance Mix Festival, Variety Keeps the Heart Fonder
February 28, 2009 by iDANZ Today
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This past Thursday, Joyce SoHo theater hosted the New Dance Alliance (NDA) Mix Festival. It was definitely a diverse blend of artists and the small, intimate space really let the choreography shine through. The program consisted of six pieces, all different choreographers, some of which just hopped on the subway while other’s flew for hours […]
Dance Review: This week at DNA, OB-ject – ob-JECT
February 28, 2009 by iDANZ Today
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As part of the Winter 2009 Season at Dance New Amsterdam (DNA), three very different female choreographers delivered performances which I haven’t stopped thinking about. All three of them created choreography which is difficult to describe in dance terms. This is not necessarily a bad thing because each of them made dances using different kinds […]
Dance Review: New Dance Alliance 23rd Annual Performance Mix Festival” Crosses Bounds at the Joyce Soho on Wednesday, February 25
February 28, 2009 by iDANZ Today
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This was my first time seeing a performance at Joyce SoHo, which has a very different feel from The Joyce Theater in Chelsea. This smaller theater allowed for me to have a more intimate viewing of the dancers and films that were presented on stage. In fact, no seat was a bad seat, which could […]
