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...
View ArticleDd 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...
View ArticleWorth the Drive? Ballets Jazz Montreal’s L.A. Appearance
Seeing a dance that’s set to music to which you’ve also choreographed is unsettling in the same way hearing a song can remind you of a cheating ex. So I was not poised to enjoy “Zero In On,” a duet...
View ArticleAfter a Career Marked by ‘Dido’, Morris Rightly Wields Its Baton
On May 15th at the Irvine Barclay Theatre in Irvine, CA, the top of Mark Morris’ head could be seen from the orchestra pit, his baton leading members of the Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra and the...
View ArticleDd 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...
View ArticleAfter a Career Marked by ‘Dido’, Morris Rightly Wields Its Baton
On May 15th at the Irvine Barclay Theatre in Irvine, CA, the top of Mark Morris’ head could be seen from the orchestra pit, his baton leading members of the Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra and the...
View ArticleDd Response: “mouth to mouth” Ate9
It was Ate9’s final run of “mouth to mouth” in LA. The show closed where it had premiered, and where the company often rehearses, at Los Angeles Live Arts. We were ushered single file into the warmly...
View ArticleLaguna Dance Festival Contrasts Two Contemporary Companies – Part I
The two companies presented in this year’s Laguna Dance Festival were Cuba’s Malpaso Dance Company and Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet. The former company was appearing on the American West Coast for the...
View ArticleCombustible Company’s “Bluebeard’s Dollhouse” is Brave, Though Busy
The power of secrets. Violence. Marriage. What scarier ways could there be to usher in Halloween? I started my October off with the world premiere of “Bluebeard’s Dollhouse,” a new, promenade-style...
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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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