Dance Review: Doug Varrone & Dancers at the Joyce, NYC
February 28, 2009 by iDANZ Today
Filed under Concert Modern -Jazz-Contemporary, iDANZ Critix Corner -Dance Reviews, Reviews
Doug Varone And Dancers had a brilliant turn at the Joyce with their signature style of music in motion. Three dances were presented, each portraying a different aspect of the human spirit. Tomorrow (2000) builds from concepts of touch and intimacy. The company beautifully portrays this with great maturity and vulnerability. What is apparent about […]
Dance Review: Existentially Nathan, Nathan Trice/Rituals
February 25, 2009 by iDANZ Today
Filed under Concert Modern -Jazz-Contemporary, iDANZ Critix Corner -Dance Reviews, Performance Art - Dance, Reviews
Sunday started as a craaaazy only in New York day for me. I was busy writing a piece on another dance group in the morning, then I flew uptown to see my best friend’s son professional acting debut in a reading for a film, then met with a friend for a power dinner on the […]
Dance Review: Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana
February 24, 2009 by iDANZ Today
Filed under iDANZ Critix Corner -Dance Reviews, Other Dance, Reviews
NICE! . . . That’s all I had to say after seeing Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana at Brooklyn College’s Whitman Hall on Sunday. Dancers displayed power, grace, and precision through intricate foot combinations, stylized arms, and musical accuracy. The audience was full of people from different backgrounds and ages. There were only four woman and […]
Dance Review: Los Farruco… an Explosion of Passion!
February 24, 2009 by iDANZ Today
Filed under iDANZ Critix Corner -Dance Reviews, Other Dance, Reviews, Theater Dance
Feet stomping. Voices wailing. Hands twirling. Fingers strumming. Smoke whirling. The New York City Center did not fail to deliver what I like to call an EXPLOSION of passion this past Sunday, February 22, with Los Farruco, the finale to the 2009 New York Flamenco Festival. Less than two hands full of performers would grace […]
Dance Review: SOUND CHECK brought the rhythm . . . Who could ask for anything more?
February 24, 2009 by iDANZ Today
Filed under iDANZ Critix Corner -Dance Reviews, Other Dance, Reviews
Take it to the Stage: American Tap Dance Foundation’s 4th Annual Benefit ATDF’s show brought back the beat! The American Tap Dance Foundation’s 4th Annual Benefit, held at Judson Memorial Church, combined professional tap ensembles and legendary tap soloists with ATDF’s Tap City Youth Ensemble, and presented them with skilled, live jazz musicians and popular […]
Dance Review: Crazy, Sexy, Inferno
February 22, 2009 by iDANZ Today
Filed under Hip Hop/Street/Commercial, iDANZ Critix Corner -Dance Reviews, Reviews, Theater Dance
Hello, Disco Dance Lovers . . . Do I have the show for you! This past week the iDANZ Crew and I checked out an interactive lounge show called Crazy, Sexy, Disco at the Water Street Restaurant’s Underwater Lounge in Dumbo, Brooklyn, choreographed by the lovely ladies, Liz Piccoli, Jen James, and Svea Schneider. This […]
Dance Review: The Extra-Sensory Pedestrians/ Kimberly Young, Wunderkammer
February 22, 2009 by iDANZ Today
Filed under iDANZ Critix Corner -Dance Reviews, Performance Art - Dance, Reviews
Wonder why? Wunderkammer, according to Wikipedia, is a cabinet of curiosities, a collection of objects categorized as belonging to natural history, geology, ethnography, archaeology, religious or historical relics, works of art, and antiquities. In other words, it’s a collection of random stuff. Kimberly Young’s piece entitled, Wunderkammer is just that. A semi-transparent plastic shower curtain […]
Dance Review: Carmen—Passionately Beautiful Flamenco
February 20, 2009 by iDANZ Today
Filed under iDANZ Critix Corner -Dance Reviews, Other Dance, Reviews, Theater Dance
Antonio Gades’ Company worked it out with their critically acclaimed Carmen (1983) which originally premiered in Paris. This dance/theatre fusion combines the best of classical flamenco, props/theatrical staging, and performing musicians with Bizet’s original opera score from 1875. Ultimately, Carmen was a performance of raw life on stage -a tragic heroine, who could very possibly […]
Dance Review: How the West was Won, One and Fun
February 19, 2009 by iDANZ Today
Filed under Ballet, iDANZ Critix Corner -Dance Reviews, Reviews
Aspen and Santa Fe are a long way from NYC, especially when it is a rainy, cold night. Thankfully, the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Company brought with them gorgeous dancers and the gorgeous beauty of Colorado and New Mexico. They took me away for an hour and half, and made me forget that I was […]
Dance Review: Ron Brown’s Work is Evidence of Brilliance
February 17, 2009 by iDANZ Today
Filed under Concert Modern -Jazz-Contemporary, iDANZ Critix Corner -Dance Reviews, Reviews
Ron Brown’s Program B is a brilliance sandwich. All three parts are made up of the stuff of brilliance, but the real meat of it is in the middle (appropriately so). That meat is called Walking Out the Dark I, and it is the kind that is fully seasoned and tenderized. The surrounding pieces (the […]
