2,859 stories by "The Dance Enthusiast"
"The potential of 11 seconds was Tharp's inspiration in The One Hundreds...and watching the specificity and challenge of each phrase..feels like tiptoeing on the edge of chaos." Jean Leni…
"Through our Community Action work, we have learned that there is a powerful synergy between domestic violence and dance that helps survivors take their whole self forward"both in body and m…
TDE: This fall The Dance Enthusiast is celebrating 8 years! Can you describe your creative process (perhaps in 8 words or less)? "Immediate, but intricately thought out. Sensitive and bold,"…
"In many ways I think of this piece as an embodied search for missing links in the complex process of creating and forging my identity as a Puerto Rican woman in the United States." Alicia D…
"Like many creatives of her ilk, there is no line dividing between her artistic and personal life. Dancing is a family affair." Trina Mannino, New York.
"Getting older can, in a word, suck. It's not just the wrinkled brow, the creaky knees, the thinning hair and thickening waist. It's the feeling of irrelevancy, the creeping realizat…
"I am South African... Coming from Africa, it is very normal to [incorporate] choral work and song in my work. It's part of my universe." Robyn Orlin
"We invited people to watch our work develop over a six-week period, and audiences loved this. They were able to delve into our pieces and understand that the creative process isn't only the…
"How does a community negotiate and synthesize a dance form that is healing, cultural, entertaining, and academic?" Melanie Greene, New York.
"Petroliunas describes her dances as visits to the past 'combining historical fiction with choose-your-own-adventure.'" Theo Boguszewski, Brooklyn.
"The Cloud Gate company dance with remarkable grace, conveying a the solidarity of communal living, as well as individual emotions." Deirdre Towers, New York.
On September 28, Clark Center NYC will begin a weeklong residency at City College Center for the Arts. The residency, will pay tribute to the legendary Clark Center for the Performing Arts, …
".A dance doesn't have to remember that it has a body. In dance, the body is usually a given. Unlike a book, a dance must remember that it has a soul. Yet in the mirror-world of Tree of Code…
"Within this political climate, if I am going to contribute something, I want it to be...something that can help move the conversation forward." Camille A. Brown, New York
Now in its fifth year, Jacqulyn Buglisi's 9/11 Table of Silence returned to Lincoln Center with crowds of spectators wrapping around the Josie Robertson Plaza's perimeter.…
"New York is the city that invented queer, or did so much for the queer scene everywhere," Zvonimir Dobrovic, New York.
"Reviving a collaboration between a choreographer, a composer, and an architect in the kind of space for which it was originally designed was a feat that took several years to accomplish." N…
"Yue, a rising star with a fresh approach to classical ballet inspired by her training in Chinese folk dance, has been chosen to create a new work for BalletX under the mentorship of world-r…
"Like a bullet, she shoots across the stage, always unbreakable, only braking when she smacks against something or somebody." Erin Bomboy, New York.
"Koosil-ja describes herself as a "machine," born into our capitalist system and a cog in this vast engine. Yet especially in the first part of her dance we see something else---not a machin…
