Dancers Hear What We Don't by Emeri Fetzer

William Forsythe’s Sider relies on sounds the audience can’t hear — In dance training and performance, stress is often placed on musicality: a dancer’s ability to coo…

SOURCE: TDF at 11:21am on October 8, 2013☆⚑

Dancing Outside Lincoln Center by Emeri Fetzer

Choreographer Mark Dendy’s latest work is a public affair While Mark Dendy is rehearsing dancers in Lincoln Center’s Hearst Plaza for his large-scale, site-specific dance work Ri…

SOURCE: TDF at 11:27am on July 22, 2013☆⚑

Life and Death, Dancing at MoMA by Emeri Fetzer

Japan’s Eiko and Koma bring their installation dance-art to Manhattan If you’re visiting the MoMA this week, then you’ll undoubtedly encounter a living installation on whee…

SOURCE: TDF at 11:31am on January 15, 2013☆⚑

How to Focus on Dance in January by Emeri Fetzer

Inside the Focus 2013 Dance Festival To kick off 2013, New York City will once again turn its full attention to the performing arts. The annual Association of Performing Arts Presenters conf…

SOURCE: TDF at 9:23am on December 27, 2012☆⚑

Engineers Learn to Dance by Emeri Fetzer

  A top choreographer uses rookies for her BAM show Perhaps the most common reason your Average Joe hesitates to get up and dance is a lack of training. But for Jake Shakleton and Micha…

SOURCE: TDF at 4:14pm on November 6, 2012☆⚑

Dance Is Not Forever, and He'll Prove it by Emeri Fetzer

Jonah Bokaer brings a bold new work to Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival One year ago, visual artist Daniel Arsham proposed a set design for choreographer Jonah Bokaer’s new work CUR…

SOURCE: TDF at 11:59am on August 1, 2012☆⚑

Cedar Lake Finally Dances in New York by Emeri Fetzer

Inside the company’s ambitious spring season For a year and a half, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet has performed almost everywhere but New York City. But from May 15-27 they are back a…

SOURCE: TDF at 12:30pm on May 14, 2012☆⚑

The Art and Science of "Throb" by Emeri Fetzer

Choreographer Jody Oberfelder follows the heart When it comes to art and music, nothing is more cliché than “matters of the heart.” So when choreographer Jody Oberfelder began w…

SOURCE: TDF at 12:47pm on February 29, 2012☆⚑

How "You" Become a Superhero by Emeri Fetzer

The epic emotion in Crystal Pite’s choreography In Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite’s The You Show, dancers are superheroes. While they may not be literally scaling walls of b…

SOURCE: TDF at 2:42pm on February 21, 2012☆⚑

Dancers As Action Heroes by Emeri Fetzer

Inside Elizabeth Streb’s “extreme action” performance By EMERI FETZER When audiences enter the Park Avenue Armory for STREB: Kiss The Air, they will see a stadium of hardwa…

SOURCE: TDF at 12:29pm on December 12, 2011☆⚑

The Elegant Terror of Steampunk by Emeri Fetzer

Steampunk Haunted House blends horror and dance Plenty of haunted houses have blood and guts and monsters, but only one lets nightmares mingle with dance. Presented by the dance troupe Third…

SOURCE: TDF at 12:12pm on October 24, 2011☆⚑