302 stories by "Sarah Kaufman"
What's not to love about a noche latina? You know there will passion, guitars, feisty women in black stretch lace, flowers in their hair. . . . Have I left out any stereotypes?…
A beautiful dancer, all long legs and sparkle, enters a ballet competition and lands a job. She came in a student, leaves a professional. In the gamble that is serious dance lust, she hit th…
First in an occasional series.
Great kitchens match drill-field precision with gestural art. The best cooks possess a soldier's obedience and a dancer's grace, transcending the dangers wit…
A local radio station goes off the air. A parent is diagnosed with Alzheimer's. These unrelated events might seem curious subjects for a dance " especially for the same dance. Consider it a …
Few dance artists have practiced the creativity of subtraction as successfully as Anna Sokolow. The power in her works from the mid-20th century stems from a mix of space, absence, anticipat…
In a blast of white light after a blinding blackout, the Japanese dance group called Noism took a hard turn into surrealism.
The dancers who had displayed great skill but little personality …
In "Alice (in Wonderland)," Septime Webre's trippy, dazzling new production for the Washington Ballet, the title character is not only a kid with a fantastic imagination " she's also an adre…
In the opera that was Frank Sinatra's life, actress and world-class beauty Ava Gardner was his Carmen. Over a few tumultuous years, the high-strung, hard-drinking pair fell in love, fought, …
It's one thing to teach a group of preening pink flamingos to dance. Or even the piglets, hedgehogs and an unruly hand of playing cards.
It's quite another to tell the Jabberwocky what to …
On the one hand, how sad it is that the jealousy and bloodthirstiness of "Snow White" still feel relevant today.
On the other, how seductive those emotions are onstage. Particularly in the …
That body. Those legs. She was just 10, but Teresa Reichlen made an impression on her new ballet teacher before she'd even danced a step.
"I'm walking around assessing my new young students,…
At one point in "Necessary Weather," dancers Dana Reitz and Sara Rudner break from their more mysterious permutations to launch into a brief novelty act. They hum "Tea for Two" and pad baref…
Fashion provocateur Jean Paul Gaultier is no stranger to dressing dancers " after all, he laced Madonna into her cone bra in the most athletic phase of her career. Burlesque queen Dita Von T…
Keigwin + Company has cornered the market on laugh-out-loud dance. Consider it LOLdance, worthy of one of those baby-talk captions reserved for cute cats: U can't hav enuf of deez cuddlie da…
You don't stick it out as the director of a local dance company for 16 years without a high degree of moxie. Yet even by the going standards, Lucy Bowen McCauley has more moxie than most.
A…
If the recession is hitting the financially precarious dance world especially hard, it is also sparking new thinking. Take Company E, a start-up troupe that gave its first local performance …
In her best, loosest moments, Twyla Tharp choreographs the way Woody Allen writes " with a keen understanding of personality, idiosyncratic rhythm and the essence of the performer.
In much…
We expect a lot from museums today, particularly those showcased on the Mall, the single greatest gallery of America's treasures. Those institutions should display the most important objects…
New beginnings often contain built-in excitement, but there was an extra note of promise in the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's program Tuesday night at the Kennedy Center Opera House.
"Meeting Pina was like finding a language," gushes one of the dancers in Wim Wenders's extraordinary homage to the late Pina Bausch. Wenders must have felt the same way about the revered Ger…
It takes one heck of a man to overcome a tutu disaster. Luckily for ballerina Xiomara Reyes " whose skirt trailed a loop of torn tulle during a "Don Quixote" pas de deux Tuesday " her partne…
Agreed: Mirth, with thee I mean to live.
The chorus sings these words at the exultant finish of Mark Morris's "L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato," which transforms the Handel oratorio i…
Welcome to good times: In the realm of dance, your spring is going to heat up early and stay hot. Or at least tingly warm. There's the brand new: Company E, a repertory troupe making a foray…
In retrospect, cultural upheavals look so dramatic. Yet we forget the day-to-day exhaustion that goes into resculpting the status quo.
New York 1967: The Joffrey Ballet does the unthinkable…
Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful Jollity.
" chorus, "L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato"
When the young Mark Morris created the biggest production of his life " t…
