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Dd Response: John J Zullo/Raw Movement at St. Mark’s Church
Last Friday, I had the pleasure to witness a triptych of works by the emerging choreographer John J Zullo in St Marks’ Church.The space was draped with long white horizontal sheets for the first piece...
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Dark Circles Contemporary Dance: Joshua Peugh and His Confident Curiosity
On the evening of September 26th, I stepped into the intimate Sanders Theatre in Fort Worth Texas to witness the first full-evening program of Dark Circles Contemporary Dance (DCCD). This emerging...
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Dd Response: LEO at the Irvine Barclay Theatre
LEO, a one-man physical theater hearkening from Berlin, literally tipped the stage of the Irvine Barclay Theatre on its side on Saturday, October 5th. A set by Flavia Hevin consisted of three walls and...
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Critical Conversation: A Young Person’s Perspective on Hubbard Street 2 and...
Lola is a precocious young lady who lives with her family in New York City, She is a third-grade student at the Talented & Gifted School for Young Scholars (M012), and studies dance at The Ailey...
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Dd response: Sydney Dance Company
Sydney Dance Company’s hour-long program at the Irvine Barclay Theatre, 2 One Another, was packed with movement, light, and abstract forms. The piece opened with the full company of 16 onstage, 13...
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Dd Response: Nederlands Dans Theater 1
On Friday night at the Music Center in Los Angeles, Nederlands Dance Theater 1 thrilled; if it were possible, they’d have exceeded their reputation as the best that dance has to offer. A well-known...
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Dd Response—Get on the Good Foot: A Celebration in Dance
Derick K. Grant performs during Opening Night of James Brown: Get on the Good Foot, A Celebration in Dance Get on the Good Foot: A Celebration in Dance honored the life of James Brown (1933-2006),...
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Dd Response: Run Don’t Run by Brian Brooks Moving Company
The show hadn’t even started and I was already in awe: Brian Brooks and Philip Trevino had created an installation that occupied the entire stage and from any seat you could see hundreds of red “cloth...
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Dd Response: Savion Glover’s STePZ
Savion Glover An audience made up mostly of families with children, young couples, and seniors gathered at the Brooklyn Center for Performing Arts on Saturday, November 2nd for a one-night-only...
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Dd Response: Maria Hassabi’s PREMIERE at the Kitchen
What does a crackling fire sound like? Does it resemble the early stages of corn popping in a pot on the stove—when there are intervals of silence between the pops? And is that pneumatic sound of a...
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Dd Response: Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet’s Rain Dogs
Though Rain Dogs, choreographed by Johan Inger, was a new repertory work for Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, it was not new to the Inger, who had created it originally for Ballet Basil in 2011. But,...
View Article“leave room for some unraveling”: Heather Kravas’s “a quartet” at The Kitchen
The Kitchen and Performance Space 122 presented Heather Kravas’s a quartet as part of the ninth COIL Festival. (For a brief explanation of the Festival, see The New Yorker.) As I watched the piece on...
View ArticleDd Response: A look back into Dancing Literate
Summation Dance’s Dancing Literate at St. Marks Church was created to answer one of the biggest struggles of modern dance choreographers: how to bridge the gap between society and modern dance while...
View ArticleDd Response: Ate9 dANCE cOMPANY
A man walked onto the stage of the Carpenter Performing Arts Center at California State University Long Beach carrying a chair. He set it down in the center of a trio of women who were dancing to...
View Article{Dd} Response: A Periapsis Valentine’s Day Special
Back for its winter season, the Periapsis Music and Dance Collaboration series showcased a wide variety of works in the spirit of Valentine’s Day. Love was depicted as an act of passion through the...
View Article{Dd} Critical Conversation: The Spectacle of Ballet Preljocaj’s Snow White
Alejandra Ianone and Candice Thompson went on a date to see Ballet Preljocal’s Snow White at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center. The following conversation reflects on the impressions, both...
View Article{Dd} Response: Forgetful Snow by Melinda Ring
There was an eeriness to the work as soon as I reached the stairwell to enter the space. The dance was set in a white room with white rows of seats. A fluffy white carpet was set as a stage for four...
View Article{Dd} Response: The Satellite Collective at BAM Fisher
The Satellite Collective made its debut at BAM Fisher last week-end bringing twenty seven different artists in dance, music, writing and visual arts together to collaborate on different pieces. Though...
View Article{Dd} Critical Conversation: The Power of Juxtaposition in Jen Rosenblit’s A...
Alexandra Pinel and Candice Thompson sat down together at the Kitchen to take in Jen Rosenblit’s A Natural Dance. CT: I left Jen Rosenblit’s A Natural Dance wondering whether this episodic...
View ArticleDd Response: Preljocaj–The Sexiest in Ballet?
The curtain opened to partially reveal the women of Angelin Preljocaj’s Les Nuits (The Nights) at the Music Center, but a mixture of white smoke and darkness–and the fact that they were tangled in a...
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