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• Announcement: John Byrne’s Transcending Form premieres at Theatre 80, June 2–August 24, 2011
  John Byrne’s Transcending Form premieres at Theatre 80, June 2–August 24, 2011 Produced by David LaChapelle in collaboration with Fred Torres Updated: May 25, 2011 – Choreographer John Byrne presents the world premiere of his first full-length dance work, Transcending Form, this summer at Theatre 80. A work for eight dancers, Transcending Form is set […]
• Dance Review: Blues, Rock, and Rachmaniov! -Complexions at The Joyce Theater
  On opening night of the Complexions Fall/Winter season at The Joyce Theater, the audience, comprised with many power players of the dance world, not only buzzes with excitement and anticipation, but also disappointment.  We hear that dance royalty, the breathtaking brilliant and talented, Desmond Richardson, is suffering from an injury (received earlier in the afternoon) […]
• Dance Review: Treeline’s Show and Tell; the Proper Way to Play
  Happy Birthday Treeline Dance Works!  Although this one-year-old company may be just a baby on the dance scene, kiddos look out because she is growing in vigorous leaps and bounds…quite literally, in fact! Her first full-length show, In Transit, demonstrates how technical prowess can meet child-like playfulness.  Throughout, dancers play their bodies like musical instruments […]
• Dance Review: Eryc Taylor Dance, Pushing Boundaries
  Eryc Taylor Dance wraps up an amazing sold-out run at Joyce Soho in Spectacular fashion. With excitement, grace, power, and beauty, this is a company to watch. The company, consisting of Isabelle Fernandez, Gierre Godley, Dillon Honniker, Carly Mayer, Michelle Pellizon and Danielle Schulz, is filled with excellent performers exhibiting with "no holds back" what […]
• Dance Review: Neil Greenberg – Saggy-Crotch Tights are the Cats Pajamas!
  By George—or better yet, by Merce—Neil Greenberg’s got good design; this former Cunningham dancer not only knows how to make a fashion statement, but also how to make statement, a fashion.  His past works have made quite the mark, inviting audience members to question status-quo gender roles, ponder common assumptions about HIV/AIDS, and interrogate what […]
• In Memoriam: Floor-Barre® LEGEND ZENA ROMMETT DIES AT 90
  Floor-Barre® LEGEND ZENA ROMMETT DIES AT 90   Zena Rommett, who has been credited with expanding and extending some of this century’s great dancers and athletes, died Wednesday November 10 at 1:26 PM in New York City. The cause was recurring cancer. Ms. Rommett was 90. Memorial services will be held on Sunday November 14 […]
• Dance Review: The Strong and the Beautiful, Cedar Lake at The Joyce
  Well, what’s there not to say about Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet?  A diverse repertory company of exquisite technical beasts would be dream and playground for any guest choreographer; or, so it seems, based on the three works on the bill (Sunday Again, Unit in Reaction, and Hubbub) for one of their evenings at the Joyce […]
• Dance Review: Garth Fagan Dance at The Joyce
  Garth Fagan Dance celebrates its 40th Anniversary this week at the Joyce. The Rochester-based company, famous for its modern-meets-ballet-meets-Afro-Caribbean aesthetic, delivers a varied program through Sunday.  It revives several company classics, premieres two new works, and introduces the choreography of company member Norwood Pennewell.  There are some hits and misses in this ambitious line-up. The […]
• Dance Review: Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet at The Joyce
  Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, the ultra-sexy company formed by Wal-Mart heiress Nancy Laurie, burst onto the scene in 2003, garnering innumerable Dance Magazine covers and glowing reviews.  On Wednesday night, I impatiently awaited the rise of the curtain on the company’s second program of their fall season at The Joyce.  The bill featured the company […]
• Class Watch: Camille Brown, “Keep it Simple, Keep it Real and Give a Tendu Soul”
  A major concept that’s branded on your body after taking a Camille Brown master class is that you can get a lot out of the simplest steps by adding soul.  Whether it’s injecting a little spirit into the rond de jambe that flirtatiously traces circles on the ground, the port de bras that resists each […]