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Dd Critical Conversation: Meryl Tankard’s “The Oracle”
Alejandra Iannone: I saw The Oracle on February 7, 2013. It was a cold Thursday evening here in New York City and the theater at the NYU Skirball Center was far from full, with most of the audience...
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Los Angeles Ballet’s Balanchine Gold
LAB in Concerto BaroccoPhoto Credit: Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times The Los Angeles Ballet is now in it’s 7th season, but even their most hardened dancers are only in their 4th. The company began...
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Dd Response: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company at the Joyce Theater
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company took the Joyce Theater stage on March 27, 2013 to present Program B of Play and Play: An Evening of Movement and Music. The evening’s performance consisted of...
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Dd Response: Spellbound Contemporary Ballet
The latest in Irvine Barclay Theatre’s international 2013 Contemporary Dance Series was Italy’s Spellbound Contemporary Ballet, formerly known as Spellbound Dance Company, under Artistic Director and...
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Dd Response: Summation Dance Faces Down a 3rd Season at BAM
Breaking the fourth wall remains a risky business, requiring not only the full commitment of the performer but complete necessity, as an artistic choice, from the production. Lacking those two...
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Dd Response: Stephen Petronio Company’s Spring Revival at the Joyce
Spring is the season when the least mystical of New Yorkers find themselves praying for some kind of natural and personal resurrection, rolling the boulder away to emerge from the cave of winter. Last...
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Dd Response: Ballet BC at Irvine Barclay Theatre
Before Saturday at the Irvine Barclay Theater, the last time I had seen Rachel Meyer and Darren Devaney dance together was five years ago, during a rehearsal for my piece at San Francisco Conservatory...
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“Drama is contrast”: Pam Tanowitz’s ‘The Spectators’ at NYLA
For The Spectators at New York Live Arts, which I saw on May 17, choreographer Pam Tanowitz created a theatrical experience that unfolded dramatically, though the piece was without characters or...
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Dd Response: Finding Diverse Points of Reference in NYCB’s All Robbins Program
There are many choreographers who have neither the depth of ideas nor range to sustain a full evening and whose work is best suited to splitting a bill with another artistic voice. Jerome Robbins is...
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Dd Response: Unpacking Paradox in ABT’s Shostakovich Trilogy
Dmitiri Shostakovich is the kind of artist whose work invites intrigue. He composed under an intensely fearful and repressive regime, prompting many of his listeners to try to read between the phrases...
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Capturing Music, Releasing Dance: Lar Lubovitch Dance Company and...
I’m intrigued by the idea of new dance work stemming from new music. Choreographers regularly commission a composer to create music for their dances, but how often do composers commission...
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Dd Response: Post:Ballet at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in SF
In San Francisco, excitement is building for Robert Dekker’s Post:Ballet, a small and relatively new company with all the markings of professionalism. I attended their fourth annual home season...
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Dd Response: Week 1 of Ballet v6.0 at the Joyce
When asking the big questions like “Is there a God?” and… “What is contemporary ballet in 2013?” artists (and believers) are searching for a raison d’etre. The curators of Ballet v6.0—a contemporary...
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Dd Response: Vendetta Mathea & Co at the Downtown Dance Festival
Vendetta Mathea, an American transplant in Aurillac, France, shared an excerpt of her new work, Water Soul, at the Downtown Dance Festival last Sunday. Since I was born and raised in France, it was...
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Complexions Contemporary Ballet & Lula Washington Dance Theater at the Ford...
It was difficult to talk any of my local friends into going with me to see Complexions Contemporary Ballet and Lula Washington Dance Theater perform last Saturday at the Ford Theater in Hollywood. Not...
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An Evening of Film: Fordham Alumni Company’s CANNED ART Festival
I never go to the movies. Perhaps it’s because of the sticker shock every time I see the ticket price. It might be because New York City movie theaters have a reputation for bedbug infestation and I,...
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Dd Critical Conversation: BalletCollective at the Joyce’s Ballet v6.0 Festival
Leah Gerstenlauer and Candice Thompson correspond to discuss BalletCollective, the fifth company featured in the Joyce Theater’s contemporary ballet festival Ballet v6.0. CT: First of all I totally...
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Dd Response: Letter From Becket
The day before taking a road trip up to Jacob’s Pillow to see Restless Creature, I took down my costume design website. Over the last two years my artistic focus has shifted from designing and sewing...
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Dd Response: Week 2 of Ballet v6.0 at the Joyce
During the second week of the Joyce’s Ballet v6.0 festival, Whim W’Him, BalletCollective, and Jessica Lang Dance presented evenings of contemporary ballet that far surpassed those I attended in week...
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Dd Response: Laguna Dance Festival
For almost a decade, The Laguna Dance Festival has been considered a gem in the Southern California dance scene. I discovered it a year ago, when I had just moved to the area from across the country,...
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