Friday, November 11, 2022
Vanessa Anspaugh’s dance “Mourning After Mornings” discovers and creates its own logic, mixing humor with grief.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:26PMJennifer Tipton, whose job usually entails serving the vision of choreographers and directors, has made her own show, the installation “Our Days and Night.”
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The Brazilian troupe Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças makes its New York-area debut with “Fúria” as part of Montclair State University’s Peak Performances series.
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Originally a virtual production earlier in the pandemic, this live version features an improvised duet between Casel and the pianist Arturo O’Farrill.
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In “Unavailable Memory” at Baryshnikov Arts Center, dance artists fill in gaps in the choreographic record, but they don’t all speak fluent Cunningham.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:27PMThere were egos and clashes, but the choreographer and painter made 16 dances together over more than 50 years, work spotlighted in the Taylor company’s season.
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Niall Jones’s “Compression” at Performance Space New York asks that you adjust to the absence of the expected and tune into a different wavelength.
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The choreographer Gisèle Vienne aims to open the doors of perception and bend our experience of time in “Crowd,” at the Brooklyn Academy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:51PMMark Morris’s “The Look of Love” is set to Bacharach songs. “People are always saying, ‘Oh my God, he wrote that?’ That’s why I’m doing it,” Morris said.
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For her piece at Madison Square Park, Beau Bree Rhee has come up with a term, “climate change bodies,” but not a dance vocabulary that expresses that idea.
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In Kimberly Bartosik’s “The Encounter,” young performers and professional dancers navigate a world in turmoil, looking for a way out.
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After a complicated journey to New York, Malpaso made it to the Joyce Theater with a program that showed it trying on various styles.
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DorkyPark’s “Open for Everything,” coming to the Brooklyn Academy, is mostly light and playful, energized by Roma musicians.
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Seán Curran Company and Darrah Carr Dance present “Céilí,” a pleasant show that doesn’t break much new ground.
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Wednesday, September 21, 2022
In “Burn,” a one-man dance-theater work, Alan Cumming tries to reveal the inner life of the Scottish poet Robert Burns.
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The choreographer and performer Nora Chipaumire’s new six-hour work at the Alexander Kasser Theater invokes ancestral spirits.
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Friday, August 26, 2022
Audio descriptions are one path into this disability arts ensemble’s show. In some ways, these mirror the critic’s job: putting dance into words.
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During a renovation of its Chelsea space, the Kitchen will move to Westbeth, which houses artists, the Martha Graham company and much avant-garde history.
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The company, a keeper of the great British choreographer Frederick Ashton’s flame, has brought a pleasant and slight program to the Joyce Theater.
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With a score by the innovative electronic musician Jlin, Abraham’s dance has beautiful skeins of motion but lacks cohesive structure.
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Sunday, July 24, 2022
At Ragamala Dance Company’s nature-themed performance at BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn!, the strongest connection was between music and dance, our critic writes.
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Michelle N. Gibson brings her one-woman show exploring the origins of New Orleans second line, “Takin’ It to the Roots,” to Jacob’s Pillow.
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Her new dance at Bard, a collaboration with the composer David Lang, is a refined, restrained and sometimes breathtaking response to the biblical poem.
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At Jacob’s Pillow, the Ted Shawn Theater has reopened with the inclusive “America(na) to Me” and a premiere by Ronald K. Brown/Evidence.
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Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana’s show “Fronteras” at the Joyce Theater has a group of very good and remarkably equal dancers sharing a bounded space.
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In Martha Clarke’s piece about St. Francis of Assisi, at La MaMa’s Ellen Stewart Theater, the song carries the dance.
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Programs at the Joyce Theater feature early works that show how Taylor integrated the radical and the popular.
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