2,859 stories by "The Dance Enthusiast"
"This summer break into the fall will be a time for our writers, board members, and friends to reconsider The Dance Enthusiast's mission and to imagine, re-imagine, and create a more sus…
"Dance historian Nancy Reynolds has devoted much of her life to sharing with others the importance of George Balanchine's ballets to the history of dance." Nicole Dekle Collins, New York.
"Performer, choreographer and educator Barbara Mahler returns to the Performance Mix Festival. Mahler has known festival founder Karen Bernard since shared their work in the same program in …
"For thirty years the Performance Mix Festival has provided a unique platform for experimentation and creative risk-taking by both emerging and established artists."Â
"The high-art severance of physicality and emotion, of sensuousness or sensuality and conscious recognition, is still sexy-cool, even today." Mindy Aloff, New York.
"This month Karen Bernard takes the New Dance Alliance's Performance Mix Festival back to where it first began in 1986 - the Henry Street Settlement's Abrons Art Center." Trina Mannino, New …
"I actually never liked the term education, I prefer learning. Education is something that implies a finite end, but learning is ongoing. It's something that never stops," says Jacques d'Amb…
"Though all three artists use humor and an irreverent disregard of dancer and audience conventions as a starting point, they also reach deeper than superficial laughs." Nicole Loeffler-Glads…
"Battery Dance impresses tremendously with its legacy. It presents a company model that fosters global harmony, bringing together disparate cultures with dance as their universal language." …
"What is fascinating to me about this format is that it constitutes a paradigm shift in how the arts organize, and facilitates change in a larger cultural context in a way that only the arts…
"The dancers in this small, young, freelance ballet company are so beautiful physically that it makes one embarrassed even to be in their presence in the audience." Mindy Aloff, New York.
"She braids together two strands from her life: going to and from her son's preschool in Bedford-Stuyvesantand and being a Movement Research Artist-in-Residence to reflect on community " the…
"My Festival co-founder Enzo Celli and I are thrilled to be able to bring together over 20 dance companies, artists and filmmakers visiting and living in NY," says Vanessa Tamburi.
"Prodigious technicians; hot choreographers; moody pieces; and a sexy, cool vibe: everything points to a homerun. Instead, it's more like a bunt to first." Erin Bomboy, New York.
"The first Broadway audition I did took me right back to my work with Jennifer Muller," says Fiedelman. "There are the steps, but they aren't just the steps, they're bouncing off of …
"Thanks to the time that Mercer clearly put into developing his choreography, [of color] proves that dance can be an eloquent and profound medium to question identity, struggle and strength.…
Center for Performance Research's Spring Movement showcase on April 14 (there are three nights in the series, each presenting different artists) included four fabulously un-trendy pieces…
"Wood's choreography alludes to emotional shifts, passing from innocence, rebellion, and struggles made tangible with straps bound around the dancers who tug and resist each other." Deirdre …
"...the pièce de résistance of the evening is Quick Time, also a premiere, and a bountiful work, richly textured with visual, aural, and physical collaborations." Christine Jowers, N…
