Thursday, November 7, 2013
The Suzanne Farrell Ballet has become enormously adept at successive approximations. What other ballet company routinely approaches this one’s ability to almost get it, to come quite close…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:53PMWednesday, October 30, 2013
“Play/Pause” isn’t just the title of Susan Marshall’s new work for six dancers; it also neatly sums up the structure. Casually dressed in leggings and T-shirts, the dancers play — …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:11PMFriday, October 18, 2013
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s program began with a gasp. The lights had just dimmed Thursday evening at the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater when one of the dancers sprinted down the…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:27PMFriday, September 27, 2013
The enchanting exhibit “Dancing the Dream” at the National Portrait Gallery begins with a magnificent art nouveau poster of Loie Fuller in all her silk-swirling, Folies Bergère radiance…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:24AMTuesday, September 17, 2013
By what alchemy does an artist take excerpts from 40 years of work and dovetail them into a compelling whole, with an emotional drive and visual rhythm of its own? This was the mystery and p…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:12AMFriday, September 13, 2013
It’s with a sinking feeling that I read program notes about “conscience methodology” and “social-psychological restrictions.” When there’s also a strained, rambling poem on the p…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:08PMAstad Deboo’s dream began in the cargo hold of a boat bound for Iran with a load of goats and sheep. Armed with an economics degree, a backpack and a taste for Western dance, Deboo left h…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:48AMSunday, September 8, 2013
David Hallberg, the American ballet star, wasn’t in Moscow in January when an assailanthurled acid on his boss, Bolshoi director Sergei Filin. The attack all but blinded Filin and horrifie…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:27PMFriday, September 6, 2013
It’s a cruel task to pick a single favorite in a season that offers so many temptations. There is the Mariinsky Ballet’s definitive “Swan Lake,” for starters, though this production …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:53PMFriday, August 16, 2013
NEW YORK — Decades before John Updike wrote of flat-stomach nymphs parading in bikinis, and well before Slim Aarons focused his camera on the tanned and toned at St. Tropez, Reginald Marsh…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:36AMFriday, August 2, 2013
Of Alfred Hitchcock’s cinematic obsessions, the moving body is one of the most remarkable. He lingered on bodies in motion with a choreographer’s eye to show us panic, passion and the fr…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:01PMWednesday, July 31, 2013
Wolf Trap is presenting only one evening of concert dance this summer (not counting “Ballroom With a Twist’s” raft of reality-TV entertainers), so it had to pick carefully. Judging fr…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:38PMWolf Trap is presenting only one evening of concert dance this summer (not counting “Ballroom With a Twist’s” raft of reality-TV entertainers), so it had to pick carefully. Judging fr…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:15PMFriday, July 26, 2013
This is a country of mystery, a sweet land of irony. What unites our states but declining incomes and anxiety? We haven’t even got a royal baby of our own to distract us as our cities go b…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:39PMFriday, July 19, 2013
Peninsula Flight 2549 is in trouble, forced to whirl above the clouds as it awaits a control-tower cue to crash land. So the flight attendants aboard it in Pedro Almodóvar’s new film, “…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:13PMFriday, July 12, 2013
NEW YORK — “I don’t like modern dance,” says Annie-B Parson, who creates dances that you’d easily call modern. “I’m not interested in it. I don’t know how to do it. I don’t…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:57PMFriday, June 21, 2013
Thank goodness neither the French nor Nijinsky had the last word on “The Rite of Spring.” “Shut up!” shouted the audience at the 1913 premiere in Paris of Stravinsky’s music and N…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:16PMTuesday, June 11, 2013
Author's post-first world war novel of love, pain and alcohol gets an unlikely reworking via the medium of danceHas the sun ever risen on a busier ballet? Consider Ernest Hemingway's grim tr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:59AMSaturday, June 8, 2013
You’ll never guess what I saw at the Kennedy Center on Friday night: a new ballet that actually took ballet as its subject and didn’t blow it to pieces. Here were tutus and tiaras and t…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:16PMFriday, June 7, 2013
Things were out of whack Thursday night at the Kennedy Center. Was this really June? An unseasonably cool rain fell outside. Inside the Opera House, snow fell not once, but twice. The first …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:40PMWednesday, June 5, 2013
I’ve been flipping through a January 1970 issue of Seventeen magazine recently, a gift from a friend. It got me wondering: Miss Teenage America, with your Wella Care hair, your hips-forwar…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:53PMSunday, June 2, 2013
The dead can’t dance, said Prokofiev, voicing doubts about the ending of his ballet “Romeo and Juliet.” But clearly, he had no idea what he was talking about. The dead not only danced …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:30AMFriday, May 24, 2013
It was standing-room only for Shen Wei Dance Arts at the Kennedy Center on Thursday night. Except for the dancers, who were lying on the floor. Sometimes they’d sit up on one hip or lean o…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:48PMFriday, May 10, 2013
Before the curtain rises on the Washington Ballet’s “Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises,” you get a taste of the ruin, decay and vague comfort that the war-scarred writer etched into his bo…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:02PMMidnight in Paris. (A real one.) It’s May 1922. There’s a dazzling soiree going on at the Hotel Majestic: Picasso is there, and so is Stravinsky. Serge Diaghilev, head of the Ballets Rus…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:59PMThursday, May 9, 2013
In her white top and plain black skirt, the dancer could be any office drone. But with that towering crown of feathers on her head — fluffy, cascading, Ziegfield Follies showgirl feathers …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:48PMSaturday, May 4, 2013
Behind every genius is the figure in the shadows, the lesser light whose stability and sanity lets the magic happen. This poor schlub’s story is rarely told. Yet that is the surprise, the …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:49PMFriday, May 3, 2013
Has the sun ever risen on a busier ballet? Consider Ernest Hemingway’s grim treatise on wounds of flesh and spirit, “The Sun Also Rises,” with its famously arid, unembellished, plainsp…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:31PMSunday, April 28, 2013
So much of human culture has vanished from the world, will surely vanish still, will fall away as if it never existed. In the long view of time, our voices and our footprints are not as dura…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:49PMFriday, April 26, 2013
Isadora Duncan, believer in free love and barefoot dance, had many children. Some of them are in this room. “Bankrupt. Bolsheviks at the door. There is no money for our school,” frets ac…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:19PMSunday, April 21, 2013
“If you are expecting me to change your life, forget about it,” says a voice in a recording in “One With Others,” a smart, witty production by Minneapolis-based artist Karen Sherman …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:10PM 
