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Tuesday, January 5, 2016

DCMetroTheaterArts’ Best of 2015 #19: ‘A Look Back at Dance in 2015’ by Lisa Traiger by Lisa Traiger

For reasons that continue to surprise me, 2015 was a relatively light dance-going year for me. That said, I managed to take in nearly a top ten of memorable, exceptional or challenging perfo…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:17PM

Saturday, May 30, 2015

Ardani Artists Presents: Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg: ‘Rodin’ at The Kennedy Center by Lisa Traiger

Boris Eifman is a choreographer critics love to hate and audiences simply love. In fact, in his 2011 opus, Rodin, detailing the loves of the great French sculptor who chiseled the art form i…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:01PM

Sunday, April 19, 2015

‘We Wait in the Darkness by Rosy Simas Danse and Dance Place by Lisa Traiger

As a long-time dance observer, I like to say the language of dance is universal and that in performance specificity on stage can imbue a work with universality. Saturday evening at Dance Pla…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:31PM

Saturday, March 7, 2015

Moveius Dance in World Premiere ‘Glacier’ Intersections Festival at Atlas Performing Arts Center by Lisa Traiger

My phone told me it was 14 degrees as I made my way to the Atlas Friday evening. A fitting temperature for the world premiere of a work titled Glacier, by Moveius Contemporary Ballet. By da…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:45AM

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

LEADERSHIP CORNER: On Legacy Keeping and Leading from Within — FROM THE GREEN ROOM: Dance/USA's e-Journal by Lisa Traiger

Katherine Brown is executive director of New York City Ballet, and in that capacity oversees the management and administrative functions of the ballet and the David H. Koch Theater and manag…

SOURCE: www2.danceusa.org at 10:09AM

Sunday, February 8, 2015

‘Deep Roots Wide World’ at Teatro de Danza Contemporanea at Dance Place by Lisa Traiger

“Long title and long history,” said Dance Place Co-Director Deborah Riley to introduce DC Contemporary Dance Theatre, which has also worked under the moniker El Teatro de Danza Contempor…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:27AM

Wednesday, January 7, 2015

DCMetroTheaterArts’ Best of 2014: A Year in Dance 2014 by Lisa Traiger by Lisa Traiger

My year 2014 in dance opened in January with a return of the now annually visiting Mariinsky Ballet to The Kennedy Center Opera House. Though the company brought “Swan Lake,” the compan…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:30AM

Sunday, December 7, 2014

‘BSO: Duke Ellington’s Nutcracker’ with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Step Afrika! at Strathmore by Lisa Traiger

“There are two kinds of music, good music and the other kind,” big band leader, composer and D.C. native son Duke Ellington famously said. In 1960 he turned to Russian powerhouse Peter I…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:40AM

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