Full Circle Dance Company’s “From the Source of Our Power” at the Baltimore Museum of Art’s Meyerhoff Auditorium was a well-curated and well-attended affair featuring work by choreog…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:22PMBallet Hispánico is one of my favorite American dance companies. Their performance of Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s “Doña Perón” at the Kennedy Center in 2022 is among the best shows I ha…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:18PMYou can’t watch the dancing people in front of your own eyes if you are looking at TikTok. Although choreographer and Artistic Director of GRIDLOCK Dance, Madeleine “Max” Roman, made…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:48AMIt’s more than a little surprising that the Inaugural Latinx Movement Festival is just that—inaugural. It was well-curated by local dancer and choreographer,, Gabriel Mata, following a t…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:21PMIt’s hard to believe that in over 40 years of performing, their appearance last week in the Eisenhower Theater marked San Francisco-based Alonzo King LINES Ballet’s Kennedy Center debut.…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:57AMMaking their Kennedy Center debut in the Eisenhower Theater, Sydney Dance Company’s “Impermanence” put a spotlight on the dancers’ ensemble work as well as director Rafael Bonachela�…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:48PMThe Martha Graham Dance Company won’t officially turn 100 until 2026, but as the oldest dance company in the United States, you can’t blame them for starting the party a little early. Th…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:31PMThere is always something special about seeing dance in a space where you are so close to the performers you could reach out and touch them. Synergy Space, a converted dance studio space abo…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:06AMIt would be easy to forget that the performers in Saturday night’s performance by the students of the George Mason University Dance Company are just that—students. I have seen plenty of …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:49PMBallet 5:8, a contemporary dance company with strong religious influences based in Chicago, arrived on tour at the Bowie Center for the Performing Arts last Saturday where they were joined f…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:21PMGrupo Corpo’s performance at the Kennedy Center Opera House featured a double bill of works by founding choreographer, Rodrigo Pederneiras. Founded in 1975, Grupo Corpo (Body Group) is one…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:28PMIt would be easy to review opening night of American Ballet Theater’s “Swan Lake” at the Kennedy Center Opera House (featuring the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, conducted by Ev…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:02PMLast Saturday night’s performance featuring “A.I.M by Kyle Abraham” was a showcase of the company’s virtuosity and versatility and the culmination of their week-long residency at Geo…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:43AMI want to start by saying that as a White, male dance writer with the suspected ballet-modern-postmodern background, there are plenty of ways in which I am ill equipped to cover Saturday nig…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:22PMNow in its third season, the Black Choreographers Festival runs October 13-15 at the Creative Alliance in Baltimore. It will feature works by 15 choreographers over two performances along wi…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:52PMThis past Wednesday night’s performance at Wolf Trap’s Filene Center was a historic event. John Butler’s “Carmina Burana” premiered in 1959. Original cast member and icon of Americ…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:58AMSynetic Theater’s “Cyrano de Bergerac” is a gloriously silly, but tragic, romp based loosely on Edmond Rostand’s play of the same name which follows the life of Cyrano de Bergerac, t…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:38PM“Finding Home: Dance Journeys,” part of the 2023 Capital Fringe Festival at the DCJCC’s Cafritz Hall, featured works by choreographers Giselle Ruzany, Kyoko Fujimoto, Sylvana Christoph…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:58AMPerhaps it is an unfair criticism of a performance that is meant to showcase the foundations and history of one of the oldest dance companies in America, but when you’re putting together a…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:33AMThis past weekend’s “Kinetic Crossings” at Baltimore Theater Project was a visual feast, featuring performances by Baltimore-based Deep Vision Dance Company and Japanese choreographer …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:30PMAnd then there was one. In 2015, The Atlantic published an article called “The Death Of The American Dance Critic.” It lamented the fact that, with Gia Kourlas’ departure from Time Out…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:33AMBallet Theater of Maryland’s “Momentum: A Mixed Bill” was a full evening of dance. It featured six performances by five choreographers—Lindsey Bell, Roman Mykyta, Ashley Taylor, Kari…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:56PMRhizome DC is one of those venues that, even if you’ve been there before, feels like a secret. From the outside it looks like a Shel Silverstein illustration, an old house sketched in by t…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:26PMGabriel Mata’s performance at Dance Loft on 14 was one of those performances that doesn’t end when you walk out of the theater; you have to sit with his work and let the ideas marinate. …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:48PMThis Friday and Saturday, Dance Loft on 14 presents a deeper look into past, present, and future dance works of D.C.-based artist, Gabriel Mata. Gabriel Mata (pronounced: gah-bryehl mah-tah)…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:15PMNow in their 22nd season, Baltimore’s Full Circle Dance Company has a thoughtful model for producing an evening of dance. The company’s annual mixed-repertory performance is carefully cu…
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