Ros Warby Wings Her Way Into DTW

Australian choreographer Ros Warby performs at Dance Theater Workshop in  her extremely well crafted solo, Monumental. A tight collaboration with video artist  Margie Medlin and composer Helen Mountfort, the work pulls inspiration from the classical ballet archetypes of Swan and Soldier.  The result is a riveting mixture of animalistic awkwardness and human self-awareness, creating an oddly voyeuristic pleasure […]

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Dance Review: The Deganit Shemy Supernova

This evening at Dance Theatre Workshop something very special is taking place. Deganit Shemy’s Arena, a full evening length work, gives the audience the chance to witness a supernova of the choreographer’s fierce creativity and the dancers’ acute aggression. In addition to being established as a multi-award winning choreographer, this New York and Israeli based […]

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Dance Review: In and Out of Focus, Molly Shanahan/ Mad Shak, My Name is a Blackbird

My Name is a Blackbird is a piece questioning identity, form and mutation. At the start, the full title is projected on the wall. Later it returns as just My Name is…, suggesting that the blank is a variable, reminding us that the idea of self is constantly changing. In this 50-minute improvisation, or “spontaneous […]

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Dance Review: 1, 2, 3, 4, — Go Beowulf!

Beowulf: “This is how tough I am: 1, 2, 3, 4” – break into campy rock and roll. Take tights, song, severed limbs, mix together and you have Banana Bag and Bodice’s Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage presented by Shotgun Players at the Abrons Arts Center.   Lights up:  three academics descend into the […]

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Dance Review: Keigwin Kabaret; Good Klean Fun!

The Keigwin Kabaret is good klean fun, well, maybe not so clean, but definitely good fun. Keigwin’s cast of dancers know how to get down and dirty, and his burlesque special guests round out the evening for a sexy good time. A voice welcomes us to K-Air, reminding us to turn off all portable electronic […]

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Dance Review: Crotch & Bodies, Keith Hennessy and Melanie Maar at DTW

“Milk chocolate? Dark Chocolate? The milk chocolate is my favorite. I just have the dark to keep other people happy,” Keith Hennessy says to the audience crammed at intermission into the lobby of Dance Theater Workshop on April 4, 2009.  “Hey you over there, I see you want some. Come closer.” Keith reads in a […]

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Dance Review: Queen Godis Spits the Realness at DTW

Queen GodIs (QG) presents a provocative choreo-poem, spitting rhymes, dancing, and singing this past weekend at DTW.  Now, many dancers like to differentiate between dancers and “movers.”  If QG is not a self-professed dancer but rather a “mover,” then there are a whole lot of dancers out there that should really MOVE better!  Her movements […]

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Dance Review: Crazy Fun with Crazy Head Space @Seaport

Some sensitive issues, like mental illness, shouldn’t be taken lightly.  But there’s some unwritten law that we’re allowed to make fun of ourselves, giving Elizabeth S. Davis, who’s living with bipolar illness, the license to write Crazy Head Space.  This mostly comical musical, performed by Abraxas Stage Company and choreographed by Matthew Neff, celebrates psychological […]

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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: 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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