93 stories by "Lisa Jo Sagolla"
This boring hodgepodge of video, songs, and talk at Dixon Place created by Grammy winner Vernon R. Reid explores African-American identity.
This flashy, upbeat celebration of Brazilian music and dance is distinguished by its inclusion of freestyle footballers who delight us with soccer-ball juggling tricks.
Visually striking yet kinetically static, this hourlong marionette musical is driven by an intelligent, humorous script that is probably better appreciated by middle-aged moms than little …
Set to Sly & the Family Stone recordings, this work pays tribute to the music and contains only hints of the political choreography for which David Dorfman is best known.
This riveting production of a disturbingly dirty redrafting of Strindberg's "Miss Julie" derives its lifeblood from D.J. Mendel's tour-de-force turn as a gritty blue-collar worker.
This extravagant presentation of an old Chinese play told through Chinese folk dance has more in common with Western story-ballet spectaculars than with traditional Chinese opera forms.
An undeniably unique display of physical daring, this show presents extreme athletic feats involving bungee cords, zip lines, springboards, and a rotating ladder yet is both exhilarating a…
Inspired by writings by Federico García Lorca, this debut production of AENY-El Puente is a sincere, impressionistic, sometimes static, yet often powerful portrait of life in New York.
This polished performance of Merce Cunningham's evening-length work set to a John Cage score inspired by James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake" opens the famed modern dance troupe's penultimate U.…
This rewarding production offers five extremely well-acted short plays that are based on classic fairy tales and illuminate various aspects of the dark side of human nature.
Superbly directed and choreographed by Martha Clarke, with fascinating historically based text by Alfred Uhry, this is an enthralling dance-theater portrait of an 18th-century Shaker commu…
With this latest work, choreographer-designer Shen Wei seems to be moving—or at least looking—backward, embracing the past rather than evolving new approaches to the art of dan…
More like a ballet than a play or a traditional puppet-theater presentation, this uneven choreography-driven show features a hodgepodge cast of people and puppets.
A superbly entertaining show for all ages, this stimulating introduction to tap features five appealing male dancers backed by a three-piece rock band and a beat boxer.
A remarkable achievement of multimedia artistry created by Phantom Limb, this spellbinding show is an imaginatively evocative depiction of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 expedit…
A stage adaptation of the Oscar-winning 1954 Italian film of the same title, this is an enchanting, cunningly constructed production, performed in Spanish with English supertitles.
A tidy production of a compelling A.R. Gurney play, this is the kind of show that sends a critic to her thesaurus seeking synonyms for the word "perfect."
A world premiere choreographed by Luca Veggetti, this engrossingly experimental work combines a bit of puppetry, slippery text, flute and electronic sounds, and gorgeous contemporary dance.
Choreographed by Wang Yuanyuan, this ultimately unsatisfying 70-minute contemporary ballet piece is danced on a spongy mat and proves mesmerizing, beautiful, and fun for the first half-hou…
Jenn Colella achieves the impossible with her magical portrayal of a four-year-old in this smart new musical.
In September, Pace University, in Lower Manhattan, kicked off a new degree program: a Bachelor of Arts in theater arts with a specialized track in commercial dance.
Dancers interested in earning a college degree often struggle with the decision to give up four of their prime performing years to academic studies.
It's not every day that someone invents a new genre of theatrical performance, yet that's essentially what happens in this clever one-man show that's driven by ingeniously designed, transf…
Though its composer and librettist, Paul McCartney, was the biggest celebrity in the house at the premiere, the real star of this simplistically choreographed ballet is costume designer St…
A gripping history lesson comprising reconstructions of three of the earliest Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane works, this two-hour program offers an illuminating rearview mirror.
