Saturday, December 9, 2023
IMPRESSIONS: Ivo Dimchev's "In Hell with Jesus/Top 40" at La MaMa Etc. :"In Hell with Jesus is partly modeled on that American TV staple, the Game Show, with its promise of momentary stardom…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM"When two individuals give each other space, support one another, honor their quiet moments of connection, and watch each other intently, you have a healthy relationship. When you witness a …
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMFriday, December 8, 2023
In IMPRESSIONS: Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born "adaku, part 1: the road opens" at BAM Fisher: "in the thrumming womblike dark - an abstract landscape receives and reflects - shattered yet …
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMTuesday, December 5, 2023
"Dance relies on the ever-evolving identities and interpretations of its dancers and their social context. So repertory and the canon must evolve along with its artists. The key question at …
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMMonday, December 4, 2023
"Studies continue to verify dance's physical and mental health benefits, yet dance is seldom integrated into institutions like hospitals and businesses." — Ann Moradian, Paris
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMThursday, November 30, 2023
"Composer Simita Sinha, and choreographer Okwui Okpokwasili, sit with legs-folded upon round platforms below long swags of red fabric hung from the second floor of St. Mark’s Church in Tre…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMWednesday, November 29, 2023
POSTCARDS: On forging a career in New York -- Profiling Demetris Charalambous: "I was struck by Demetris’ ability to world-build with their movement alone amidst a sea of street-clothed …
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMIMPRESSIONS: SOKOLOW THEATER/DANCE ENSEMBLE's In the Eye of a Drea :"The late choreographer Anna Sokolow (1910-2000) was a sculptor of movement chipping away patiently until her dances revea…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMTuesday, November 28, 2023
In IMPRESSIONS: American Ballet Theatre's First Gala Evening with New Artistic Director Susan Jaffe;"After seeing the promising youngsters in the opening number, this first pas de deux aff…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMMonday, November 27, 2023
In IMPRESSIONS: Mark DeGarmo's "Las Fridas: An Offering for the Days of the Dead" at The Clemente Center "As a millennial, I instantly note how refreshing and beautiful it is to see bodies …
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMIn IMPRESSIONS: "Room with a View" - (LA)HORDE and Rone with The Ballet National de Marseille at Skirball Center: "Room is a collaboration between electronic music producer Rone and choreogr…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMWednesday, November 22, 2023
"What makes Jungle Book reimagined such a wondrous two-hour, dance-theatre adventure is how magically it amalgamates pairs of differing expressive modalities to concoct its mysteriously unif…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM"Marshall invites audiences into his mind, prayers and ruminations through choreography that is subtle, contemplative and imbued with deep presence." — Cecly Placenti, New York
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMMonday, November 20, 2023
POSTCARDS: Lucy Stewart of Complexions Contemporary Ballet On Their Joyce Season: "I was introduced to Complexions when I was nine years old, and it has been a dream of mine to join ever sin…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMIMPRESSIONS: Stephen Petronio Company “Breath of the Beast” at NYU Skirball: "As a choreographer, Petronio clearly still has creative energy to spare—a fact that allows his own oeuvre …
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMTuesday, November 14, 2023
IMPRESSIONS: Bill T. Jones ,Marc Bamuthi Joseph, & Tamar-kali's "Watch Night" at the Perelman Performing Arts Center: "when does the theatricalized retelling of violence constitute a nec…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM Fall for Dance Festival at New York City Center -The 20th Edition :"This year’s festival offered five different programs, ten performances, and fifteen works, celebrating twenty years o…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMMonday, November 13, 2023
IMPRESSIONS: The Lyon Opera Ballet (Opéra de Lyon Ballet), performed Dance (1979) choreographed by Lucinda Childs, music by Philip Glass, and film by Sol LeWitt, at New York City Center, Oc…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMIMPRESSIONS: Dorothée Munyaneza “Mailles” at New York Live Arts"True to its name, Dorothée Munyaneza’s “Mailles” crafts delicate yet resilient narrative and aesthetic “meshes�…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMIn IMPRESSIONS: New York City Ballet 75th Anniversary Season Week Four - All Balanchine- at Lincoln Center: "The final week of New York City Ballet’s month-long fall season features its ac…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMSaturday, November 11, 2023
"Greetings from Lincoln Center! My name is Lisa Borres, a dancer at Paul Taylor Dance Company. I’m writing from “Jersey” as we call it, also known as the furthest dressing room on the …
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMFriday, November 10, 2023
In THE DANCE ENTHUSIAST ASKS: Aaron P. Dworkin, The PoetJournalist -In-Residence with Complexions Contemporary Ballet: "Now as they say, 'the world is becoming more like Complexions...' Th…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 08:06PM"Although the show’s title implies a step-by-step guide leading to a career in dance, How to Be a Dancer in 72,000 Easy Lessons is not an instruction manual, but rather a collection of mus…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMThursday, November 9, 2023
Monday, November 6, 2023
In DANCE NEWS: Ballet Tech Launches New Initiative - Ballet Tech Across New York “For forty-five years—beginning decades before the long-overdue prioritization of access and inclusion …
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM IMPRESSIONS: Ola Maciejewska's "Bombyx Mori" at Florence Gould Hall "Polish choreographer, Ola Maciejewska, who created "Bombyx Mori," credits Loïe Fuller and her Serpentine Dance (1892) …
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM"From its inception, the company has remained committed to themes of distress and ‘otherness’. KŌSA explores the satisfaction of harming, the love of self, cross dressing, and death." -…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMIMPRESSIONS: Rachid Ouramdane and Chaillot’s Théâtre National de la Danse "CORPS EXTRÊMES" at BAM: "A body tossed upward onto a ledge protruding from the wall appears to have the same e…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMIMPRESSIONS: Hope Boykin's "States of Hope" at The Joyce :"Hope Boykin, radiant with a thousand-watt smile...this magnetic woman could be your sister, a cousin, your best friend...So, I wo…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AMIMPRESSIONS: New York City Ballet 75th Anniversary Season -Balanchine and Robbins :"The freshest breeze during this otherwise all-Balanchine season proves to be a contribution by Jerome Rob…
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