Tuesday, October 31, 2017
On Stage at Kingsborough, Brooklyn, New York. October 28, 2017. American Dance Spectacular, a revue-style production choreographed by Al Blackstone (So You Think You Can Dance, Freddie Fal…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 08:41AMFriday, October 27, 2017
Oh lord, what have David Henry Hwang and Julie Taymor done to “M. Butterfly”? Hwang’s 1988 Tony-winning play is a critical-minded drama dissecting race relations, gender roles and inte…
SOURCE: www.didhelikeit.com at 02:12AMThursday, October 26, 2017
Shadowlands tells the touching story of the relationship between C. S. Lewis and Helen Joy Davidman. The Fellowship of Performing Arts is producing the first New York revival of this accl…
SOURCE: stageandcandor.com at 07:45AM Hi, I’m Liz and I’ll be offering you advice on navigating the tricky situations that can come from working in or being a fan of theater. I’ve been doing it out on my blog, fyeahgrea…
SOURCE: stageandcandor.com at 07:00AMWednesday, October 25, 2017
Fox Theatre, Atlanta, Georgia. October 24, 2017. The Color Purple, a powerful Tony Award-winning Broadway musical based on the novel by Alice Waters, is set in rural Georgia, 1910-1940, …
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 03:07PMThursday, October 19, 2017
A couple of years ago, when choreographer A’Drey Vinogradov heard the song “Clearest Blue” by Scottish synth-pop band CHVRCHES, he had images in his head of a group of young people han…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 08:31PM When you think of plays that empower women, The Taming of the Shrew doesn’t come to mind, but Chicago Shakespeare Theatre’s new production is trying to change that. With a cast of thi…
SOURCE: stageandcandor.com at 10:22AMTuesday, October 17, 2017
Do you remember a time when you’ve hit a milestone and ended up looking in all directions? There can be reflection on the past, looking toward the future, and taking in what is all around …
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 08:32PM Upon entering Rattlestick Theatre for my scheduled conversation, an air of freeing and loving spirit came over me as I look up to see Orion Stephanie Johnstone ready to greet me. Once in …
SOURCE: stageandcandor.com at 08:00AMSunday, October 15, 2017
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C. October 7, 2017. Even before the show began, the newly renovated Terrace Theater was full of excitement as dance lovers got a…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 10:15PMThursday, October 12, 2017
Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens, and Count Leo Tolstoy are trapped together in a room. That’s the basic premise for Scott Carter’s play, The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Ch…
SOURCE: stageandcandor.com at 07:00AMFriday, October 6, 2017
Newport, Rhode Island. September 24, 2017. Site work certainly has its challenges – legal, logistical and physical safety aspects. Yet what can emerge in and from site performances can…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 09:05PMThe St. Bart’s Players, NYC’s award-winning, longest running community theater group, proudly presents A Little Night Music as the final show of its 90th Anniversary Season
The post Step…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:56PMAs dancers, our hands and wrists help us to execute choreography, express ourselves in movement, propel us through floorwork and more. Yet the challenges and habits of modern life, such as c…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 12:01AMThursday, October 5, 2017
“My floor is acting up!” “My floor is too slippery!” “My floor is too sticky!” “I can’t keep up with cleaning my floor. It is always dirty.”…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 11:14PMA dance performance – beautiful movers grace the space, comfortably moving together where they are and with nothing constraining them. It’s always that simple, right? Not quite. Youn…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 10:55PMYou know what it takes to make it in the dance world: hard work, passion, performance quality, technical prowess, versatility. And there’s no other way to gain those qualities than with ex…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 10:43PMSome dancers nowadays don’t feel like tap needs to be part of their repertoire. The traditional trifecta of “tap, jazz and ballet” classes is obsolete as dance students have infinite s…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 08:39AMWednesday, October 4, 2017
Noah Ricketts is only 25 years old, and he has already carved out quite a name for himself as a triple threat on Broadway. Recently, he performed in the preliminary production of the new Bro…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 08:05AMImagine getting to attend a workshop packed with master classes, motivating faculty and innovative choreography that brings the best out of you without the stress of having to compete. To to…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 07:59AMFood delivery? There’s an app for that. Books? Try Audible. Movies? Stream them on your phone with a relatively inexpensive monthly subscription. More and more services are becoming increa…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 07:53AMAdult dancers attend an open class for a variety of reasons. Nearly all come because there is something about the atmosphere and physical work accomplished during dance class that cannot be …
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 07:50AMNYU Skirball Center, New York, New York. October 1, 2017. She doesn’t even have to dance. All she has to do is walk across the stage for the audience to fall in love with her. That woman i…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 07:43AMWhat comes to mind when you hear “Kilowatt Dance Theater”? High energy, excitement and innovation for sure — but what style is the dance company? Jazz. Now, you might be confused …
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 07:43AMTap dancers from all over the world will once again flock to New York City from November 10-12, to sharpen their skills, honor the tap masters who have gone before and live the dream of bei…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 07:25AMEmily Schoen directs and choreographs for Schoen Movement Company, a three-time invitee to the prestigious Jacob’s Pillow Inside/Out Dance Festival. With support from the U.S. State Depart…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 04:04AMTuesday, October 3, 2017
Have you ever experienced the blossoming of a relationship, either friendship or romantic, only after dancing together? Have you reached a place of fully empathic understanding concerning a …
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 07:08AMThursday, September 28, 2017
On a breezy evening in Hell’s Kitchen, I met up with my tall, well-spoken and charming friend Joe Breen, a NYC based playwright whose latest play, All My Love, Kate, is being presented …
SOURCE: stageandcandor.com at 08:00AMWednesday, September 27, 2017
Ballet in the City fills a unique need for ballet dancers and their families. It is a presenting organization, rather than a school or company comprised of its own dancers, and that structur…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 07:41AMTuesday, September 26, 2017
Third Life Studio, Somerville, Massachusetts. September 15, 2017. Where and when was postmodernism born? Arguably, it was more than 50 years ago in a little church basement on New York City�…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 07:59PMMonday, September 25, 2017
This was a man who loved words, the exact turn of the phrase, its cadence and where the stress falls, whether in Shakespeare or Pinter, Beckett or Stoppard, and his commitment to the nuance …
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