Sunday, 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 07:10PMMonday, April 15, 2013
About 500 boys have packed the auditorium at Bethesda’s Landon School. They look sharp, all in blazers and clean pants (it’s Monday), but by the way they’re slumped in the seats, heads…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:56PMSunday, April 14, 2013
In Motown songs as in Shakespeare, fidelity issues loom large. Put the two together, add some character-defining go-go dancing, and you have a great piece of theater. That is what Doug Elkin…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:40PMA man and a woman, their heads covered in white gauze, try to kiss through mouthfuls of cloth. What’s the use? Still, they keep trying. And when they dance, he sweeps her rapturously into …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:42PMWednesday, April 10, 2013
The redesign of classical ballet, the expansion of modern dance, the deepening of the Soviet symphony: Art exploded in the 1940s, and American Ballet Theatre captured that energy in a singul…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:02PMSunday, April 7, 2013
That the inner city is a hidden war zone is painfully clear in Kyle Abraham’s “Pavement,” a beautiful and severely honest work performed by his dance company, Abraham.In.Motion. But de…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:42PMThursday, April 4, 2013
NEW YORK — Mikhail Baryshnikov is dancing. He is 65. And so, as a friend asked when I told him the news, what is there to see? Well. A great joyous appetite, for starters. The former balle…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:26PMWednesday, March 27, 2013
An all-Tchaikovsky ballet program: In concept, who can quarrel? But what looked good on paper proved somewhat flat in execution when the New York City Ballet opened its six-day series at the…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:04PMFriday, March 22, 2013
Why wait for fairies? The enchantments start early in the Washington Ballet’s “Cinderella.” Take the decor: With simple white furniture placed against a starlit night sky and slender b…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:50PMSunday, March 17, 2013
How conventional American modern dance will seem after the sharp theatricality of the Scandinavians in the Nordic Cool festival. Or rather, how wacko and deliciously oddball some of the danc…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:49AMFriday, March 15, 2013
In a live performance, technology typically plays the role of fairy godmother, dressing up the stage with wondrous special effects. But it’s far more interesting when it plays God. When te…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:28AMWednesday, March 13, 2013
Finnish choreographer Tero Saarinen seems obsessed with light and darkness, and it’s no wonder. Helsinki swings between extremes of light, with its midday nightfall in winter and midnight …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:52PMThursday, March 7, 2013
“For me, walks are the new dance,” says choreographer Sharon Eyal, as quoted in the program notes to her 2011 piece “Corps de Walk.” Carte Blanche, Norway’s national contemporary d…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:47PMWednesday, March 6, 2013
Before dancer Pavel Dmitrichenko emerged as the self-confessed ringleader of the brutal acid attack on the Bolshoi Ballet's director, he starred in a fictional show of clashing testosterone …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:50PMSunday, March 3, 2013
The rambler: He’s a cowboy, a drifter, a marriage-phobe. A migratory species, called to move along at regular intervals. And, as one of the acerbic women in Joe Goode’s dance-theater pie…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:23PMSaturday, March 2, 2013
Midway through “Love Songs,” a well-oiled display of contemporary rites of courtship by the Danish Dance Theatre, the performers retreated to chairs at the back of the Terrace Theater st…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:46PMThursday, February 28, 2013
The Swan in Lara Stefansdottir’s dance of the same name is nobody’s arm-flapping patsy. We’re talking about the Iceland Dance Company here, and these tall, rangy women are more Viking …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:47PMSunday, February 24, 2013
Forget the new hairdo. Michelle Obama's most powerful bangs come from her hips. In Friday's "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" on NBC, the first lady and the comedian teamed up in a tour-de-far…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:24AMSaturday, February 23, 2013
March madness came early as the Washington Ballet whirled through George Balanchine’s tribute to John Philip Sousa this weekend. “Stars and Stripes” turns the buoyancy of Sousa marches…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:18PMFriday, February 22, 2013
When Dana Reitz and Sara Rudner, two matriarchs of postmodern dance, brought their much-anticipated collaboration “Necessary Weather” to the Washington area last spring, they didn’t ap…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:17PMFriday, February 15, 2013
Septime Webre, artistic director of the Washington Ballet, speaking to the audience at Sidney Harman Hall Thursday night: “This is great. It’s like we’re on a giant Valentine’s Day d…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:29PMThursday, February 14, 2013
Is it any wonder Harlem Shake videos have gone viral? It's all in the jump cuts, which add that little jolt of magic. Plus, the song's beat is hypnotic, the setups are quick and the routines…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:01PMMonday, February 11, 2013
Was it too much to ask that the Grammy Awards have some sparkling dance moments? Or do I, like the Rihanna-Chris Brown reunion, ask too much? Apparently so. The best dance performance at the…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:06AMSunday, February 10, 2013
Sequestration, furloughs and other horrors: Washington’s specific fears and the nation’s general unease took shape in a dance by Mark Morris called “The Office.” Of course, that�…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:40PMSaturday, February 9, 2013
“This music is all about sex!” squawks a bespectacled, nerdy musicologist as the slashing chords of Stravinsky’s ode to the id, “The Rite of Spring,” reach their shattering peak. W…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:53PMWednesday, February 6, 2013
Speaking to the audience just before the curtain lifted on the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Tuesday night, Robert Battle, the company’s director, joked about how he hadn’t been bor…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:13PMMonday, February 4, 2013
Beyonce, what got into you? Strutting through a swirl of smoke at the start of her Super Bowl halftime show last night, the golden-maned songstress pounded the stage, each step of her…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:41AMSaturday, February 2, 2013
A Ronald K. Brown program is the dance equivalent of comfort food. Especially on such a frigid, blustery night as Friday, when you were all but blown from 21st Street through the doors of Li…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:21PMFriday, February 1, 2013
When he is in the studio creating a dance, choreographer Mark Morris faces no end of decisions, questions, problems. How does he solve them? Honey, you have no idea. Neither does he. Let�…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:38AMFriday, January 25, 2013
If there’s a theme to the hefty spring dance roster, it’s that excellence lies in all directions. Rely on the offerings of any single venue at your peril, for in this season — which lo…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:08PMSunday, January 20, 2013
As the curtain opens on “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” performed by the National Ballet of Canada at the Kennedy Center, we’re in familiar territory. That is, it’s familiar if…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:32PM 
