2,859 stories by "The Dance Enthusiast"
"Toward the end, the holdouts perform a series of flamboyant solos, sinking and swiveling, jogging and dodging, and we remember why we come to these parties at Trisha's---for the sheer pleas…
"Through the challenges and rewards of progress, Coulibaly asserts a continual need for transformative awakening that draws on ancestral power to activate self-driven futures." Sarah Cecilia…
"Awarded both the inaugural Trisk Fellowship and the New York Live Arts "Fresh Tracks" residency this past fall, Antinozzi is quickly becoming an important and consistent voice on the New Yo…
"Choreographers Amadi 'Baye' Washington and Sam 'Asa' Pratt use the riddle of the Sphinx as an allegorical structure for their latest collaboration, 4/ 2/ 3." -Cecly Placenti, New York
" While Morris is known for the tight music-movement relationships his concert-dance choreography establishes, here, we feel that partnership more blatantly than ever. Every dance st…
"No visa required to enter Jersey City, and astonishingly quick to reach from Manhattan! Nimbus Dance, founded in 2005 by Sam Potts [...] is a magnificent venue " with studios for its…
"A rockstar performance by dancer Olga Pericet crowned the latest New York Flamenco Festival with the extravagant imagery of her show, La Leona. Yet stars of all kinds shone at this annual c…
"And not to get political, but with all these governments doing crazy shit, we still get submissions from Russia, from Ukraine, from Israel and the Middle East. And you get to see the people…
"To connect three such varied segments so seamlessly is a wonderful feat in itself. Congratulations to the creators, performers, and curators for a thoughtful yet entertaining performance th…
"People are realizing the necessity of an arts eco-system and are seeing that not everything is centered in New York and Europe. There needs to be a larger focus on the Bay Area as an import…
"To be honest, I wanted to like Illinoise. And for some, it does resonate. The show has been picked up for a 16-week run on Broadway at the St. James Theater beginning April 24. As a commerc…
"Rebecca Margolick's Reservoir and Kashia Kancey's I Believed It Too premiered in the latest
iteration of the theater's Split Bill Series, which brings together pairings of emerging NYC-base…
IMPRESSIONS: Sankofa Danzafro in "Behind the South: Dances for Manuel" at The Joyce Theater: "Palacios Callejas has translated the fascinating novel into a vivid fever dream illustrating the…
"So we got in a room and conducted our first two week workshop... At the end of it, Sting and his manager came into the studio to watch...He asked us to please make this show now, which …
"But the statement that most closely describes Unstill Life"or any life for that matter "was "A step is taken toward something and away from something else." Wendy Perron, New York
"Promoted by Dr. William Kolodney, and supported by rich benefactors, over the years the institution, recently rebranded "92NY," would become not merely a community center but a cultural hub…
IMPRESSIONS: Cunningham on Film Part 2: MERCE / MISHA / MORE & Event at REDCAT: 'They find common ground in their physical curiosity, and the transmission of Merce's roles to Misha's bod…
Valerie Green pursues the healing of trauma though physical ritual in RITE. Commitment to Green's process requires undivided, hyper-aware physical and spiritual attention. ~ Catherine Th…
IMPRESSIONS from Los Angeles: Reinterpreting the Body with Lionel Popkin's "Reorient the Orient" at REDCAT : "When the preconceived ideas of race, religion, and culture are stripped from vie…
"As its title indicates, the film tracks the thirtieth-anniversary workshop restaging of Cunningham's 1989 dance of the same name...a highly individuated transmission process, with thirteen …
"I would love to see a bigger company. Right now, we have 14 dancers and there is a lot of work that we do. And, you know, dancers aren't AI! It takes a toll on their bodies and I would …
IMPRESSIONS: Hubbard Street Dance Chicago at The Joyce Theater :"Instigating and supporting one another, the dancers were bubbling over with infectious musicality." Hannah Lieberman, New York
THE DANCE ENTHUSIAST ASKS: Performer, Choreographer, Director, Jim May on Bringing Life Into Dance, and Anna Sokolow: "Anna was not into any [poltical] party. She very rarely knew who wa…
