17 stories by "Madeline Duff"
When a technician noticed a lighting cue had come later than planned (the dancing took over), Aleksey Kulikov, co-director of Flamenco Aparicio Dance Company, explained to the crew member: "…
Amber Tamblyn and Andrea Gibson were heard loudly and clearly at The Kennedy Center this past weekend. Washington, D.C. and the Terrace Theater welcomed the two poets as part of the Comedy a…
Gin Dance Company’s Dance, Champagne and Chocolate with Gin program felt a little bit like flicking between emoticons: determined, eyebrows scrunched emoji? Hmm, aloof? What about gigg…
No curtain opened on the black and white picture of Jerome Robbins, smiling, in a sweatshirt, a hand on his forehead and another on the chest of one of his two dogs. There was no boundary un…
Velocity is speed with purpose: a change in distance over time, crucially defined by direction. The VelocityDC Dance Festival took us in many. In its ninth iteration, the variety-style perfo…
Moments into a dimmed house at the historic Lincoln Theatre, an off-stage voice over a loudspeaker made a promise to a buzzing audience: "We're going to light up the night sky, so dance!" Ci…
In Tom Horan's Static, directed by Bridget Grace Sheaff, Emma (Amy Horan), a perky millennial, inherits, after her father's death, the sad task of excavating the second house he owned later …
Every so often, we witness a moment in time unabashedly good"good in its intentions, good in its ideals, good from inner core to every outer, polished extremity. CityDance's benefit performa…
Latin Heat does what the Washington Ballet does best: spotlight its dancers' strengths and individual personalities. However, Latin Heat also illumines the WSB unhinged and unrestraine…
To witness Seuls is to witness a gifted artist toss his tools"la vie banale, literary idols, childhood"into the same spot in a stream. Each tool, each influence, creates a new circle on the …
Eight dancers paused on an open-air stage. The curtain is up. No music, yet. A rustle from a small, brown mass as far downstage as can be: a bird, flicking wings. One more sits near the othe…
Grey, almost nondescript costumes, would not seem powerful. A lightly lit modern painting, blue, then back to grey, would not seem striking. Eight dancers, re-entering in lines from upstage …
The dancers, dusted in long, white tulle, reflect"shells on a dark beach. It is an opening, a closing, a commencement, an ending. Arms raise. Hands flex. Heads turn, diagonally, toward a com…
This dance variety show featuring undergraduate choreography and dancers unfolds with a consistent contemporary theme, but some pieces achieve more variety of movement than others. These Fiv…
Under a moonlit, cloudy sky, a young, overwhelmed Prince Siegfried seeks refuge in the forest following an evening of birthday revelry. A weighty anticipation gives a lag to his steps, for t…
Principal dancer Teresa Reichlen unwraps her leg into a développé, a blade curling a bow, then"suspends"playfully, before hiding it away. Her partner, principal Zachary Catazaro, approache…
If fast-paced apps, tweets, and glowing screens have your eyes abnormally a-glaze (yes, millennials, you can admit this, too) trade Facebook for good-feeling farce and be sure to pop over to…
