Dance Review: DecadanceTheater Takes Hip Hop Dance Soaring to Heights as High as the Empire State Building
July 20, 2010 by iDANZ Today
Filed under iDANZ Critix Corner -Dance Reviews, iDANZ Features, Reviews
Waking into Joyce SoHo for the performance of Deacadance Theater, I am immediately massaged by the sounds of Hip-Hop beats. Creating the vibe on the ones and twos is DJ Henry C, spinning the joints that hype everyone to get crunk. Finally the house lights dim and the crowd erupts into thunderous applause, and we […]
Dance Review: Broadway Underground Knows How To Get Down
July 17, 2010 by iDANZ Today
Filed under Hip Hop/Street/Commercial, iDANZ Critix Corner -Dance Reviews, iDANZ Features, Reviews
Broadway Underground brings down the house on Monday night at BB Kings in Times Square. This show is full of non-stop raw talent, amazing live music, and lots of complimentary comedy that keeps the show rolling with laughter and fun. Produced by Jared Grimes and Cheryl Cutlip, the performance displays the work of a fresh […]
Dance Review: Son of Sound – SAVION GLOVER HAD ME AT HELLO
July 3, 2010 by iDANZ Today
Filed under Hip Hop/Street/Commercial, Reviews
With a clever mind, his heart on his sleeve and a pair of supernatural feet, Savion Glover, the artist, unleashes mind-boggling rhythms in his current production, “Sole Power” at Manhattan’s mecca for exemplary dance, The Joyce Theatre. In the footsteps of tap legends, Savion Glover pays homage, one beat-filled rhythm at a time, to those […]
Dance Review: Perceptions Contemporary Dance Company at Teatro LA TEA Theater
June 21, 2010 by iDANZ Today
Filed under Concert Modern -Jazz-Contemporary, iDANZ Critix Corner -Dance Reviews, Reviews
New York is about laying it all on the line..’if you can make it here you can make it anywhere’ and Perceptions Contemporary Dance Company throws their hat in the ‘if you can make it here you can make it anywhere’ ring of NY with their explosive evening length premier at Teatro LA TEA Theater […]
Dance Review: Martha Graham Dance Company at The Joyce Summer 2010
June 14, 2010 by iDANZ Today
Filed under Concert Modern -Jazz-Contemporary, iDANZ Critix Corner -Dance Reviews, iDANZ Features, Reviews
I’m a Jersey boy, loud and proud. It wasn’t until I moved to London at 19 to study dance did i begin to question or understand my heritage. I would tell people,”oh ya know, I’m 1/4 French, 1/4 Italian, a little German etc.. and my English friends would say, “Are you baking a cake? A […]
Dance Review: Three Theories with Armitage Gone!
June 7, 2010 by iDANZ Today
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Armitage Gone’s World Premiere of Three Theories at Cedar Lake on Thursday June 3rd undoubtedly proves their staying power. Impetus for this work came from choreographer and artistic director Karol Armitage’s reading of Brian Green’s best selling book on theoretical physics, The Elegant Universe. The book focuses on the conflict between Einstein’s General Theory of […]
Dance Review: Ailey II: A Force to be Reckoned With in the Dance World
June 1, 2010 by iDANZ Today
Filed under Concert Modern -Jazz-Contemporary, iDANZ Critix Corner -Dance Reviews, iDANZ Features, Reviews
Usually when you’re watching second companies perform you anticipate small mess-ups: slips, nervousness, unclean pirouettes, lack of confidence. However, this was far from the truth with Ailey II at the Joyce Theater. As part of the 1.2.3 Festival, Ailey II, along with ABT II and Taylor 2, take the stage for a shared week of […]
Dance Review: Youth America Grand Prix 2010 Gala “Stars of Today Meet the Stars of Tomorrow”
June 1, 2010 by iDANZ Today
Filed under Ballet, Reviews
YAGP Gala presents a delightful mixture of dance prodigies and top dancers from around the world. All week the city has been buzzing with visiting dancers from top international dance schools. Recently, I’ve been encountering the YAGP people quite a bit around the city in classes at Peridance and Steps. Now, I get to see […]
Dance Review: dre.diohead at LPAC
May 31, 2010 by iDANZ Today
Filed under Concert Modern -Jazz-Contemporary, iDANZ Critix Corner -Dance Reviews, Reviews
Dre.Dance’s dre.diohead at the LPAC Mainstage Theater on April 30 tells their movement story candidly, ferociously and with a clarity only highly attuned artists possess. In owning their style of movement so completely, each piece resonates as dance in the same way a McDonald’s sign resonates as fast food. While dance and fast food don’t […]
Dance Review: ZviDance at DTW
May 29, 2010 by iDANZ Today
Filed under iDANZ Critix Corner -Dance Reviews, iDANZ Features, Performance Art - Dance, Reviews
Zoom is a dance piece created by the company, ZviDance. Run by choreographer Zvi Gotheiner, ZviDance performs joyous, colorful, vibrant works that revel in the pure beauty of movement and physical expression. Zoom is no different. The piece is exhilarating and moving, and showcases the excellent company Mr. Gotheiner has assembled. These are dancers that […]