Dance Review: Hirabayashi’s Return to the Roots Redefines “Dance Theater”-Expect the Unexpected

I don’t know about you, but whenever I see the words “dance theater” at the end of a company’s name, I think to myself “please don’t let this be a combination of dance and bad acting.”   Companies can get away with that in the classical ballet world, but modern dance… uh, no! However, contrary to […]

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Dance Review: The MacArthur Dance Project, Soldiers of the War for Balance

The struggle for balance is one that all dancers know well.  Check out The MacArthur Dance Project and Brian Senti’s From The Margins, This, Unmentioned at The Brooklyn Lyceum to watch their struggle to win this very battle.  The gorgeous space, architectural costumes, dancers, video projection, orchestra and singers shine against an exposed brick wall […]

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Dance Review: Gina Gibney’s View Partially Obstructed, I Wish All Views Were This Partially Obstructed

  Gina Gibney choreographs a gorgeous, organically flowing, 55 minute piece set to a memorable piece of music by Ryan Lott and atmospherically influenced by a brilliant live projection designed by Joshue Ott/superDraw. The set design and costumes by Lex Liang and lighting design by Kathy Kaufmann are just the right final ingredients to make […]

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Dance Review: Chase Brock at Abrons Arts Center, NYC

To go to the depths of the lower east east of Manhattan, where it takes an hour to get home or $50 for a cab, you better put on a show that entertains, provokes thought, and inspires me, or else I’m gonna get real mad!   Thursday night, October 8 (the night after seeing the cerebral […]

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Dance Review: What the Human Body Can Do, Lucinda Childs Dance at The Joyce Theater

Rid your mind of the notion that dancers are just like real people – capable of clumsiness, dragging feet, spatial confusion and other characteristics that typically unite human beings – and then you will be ready to see Lucinda Childs Dance at The Joyce Theater.  Unless you do this, you will spend two precious hours […]

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Dance Review: Fall For Dance 2009 Leaves Audiences Wanting More

Fall for Dance is a wonderful, relatively new program (founded in 2004) that features excerpts from the works of over twenty-five international dance companies over a ten evening run.  This is a great opportunity for the public to be exposed to a wide variety of dance, and perhaps develop an affinity for certain artists, resulting […]

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Dance Review: Emio Greco/PC at The Joyce

Emio Greco/PC brings us the dance-rock concert [purgatorio] POPOPERA this weekend at the Joyce Theater.  This is the work of Italian choreographer Emio Greco, and Dutch theater director Pieter C. Scholten who have been working together since 1995. Laden with guitars that are used as a symbolic prop, flashy lights, and costumes, this rock show […]

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Dance Review: Irresistible Dance, Fall for Dance at City Center

City Center’s Annual Fall For Dance Festival which is in its 6th season is a truly remarkable celebration of dance.  Fall For Dance bridges many divides; it brings together highly acclaimed and well-known companies such as ABT and Martha Graham Dance Company with smaller, up-and-coming dance companies.  This festival also bridges the gap between seasoned […]

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Dance Review: Hot-Off-the-Press Dance, Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre

Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre is a hot-off-the press dance company with choreographer, Samar Haddad King, creating dances about the pervading issues and conflicts of today’s world. King looks at the controversy that arises amongst groups with varying belief systems and what happens when these systems collide.  According to Ms. King, her goal is to “collaborate […]

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Dance Review: Fall for Dance at City Center

Every year, I am always so excited to see City Center’s Fall for Dance festival.  The tickets are cheap, and the festival allows starving artists like me to see some of the best dance around.  For the most part, programs I’ve seen have not had a recognizable theme. On the evening of Wednesday, September 23rd, […]

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