"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.
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…
"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.…
"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 …
"I lived with a highly cultured Indian family in Bombay, as it was called then (in 1968), and met extraordinary dancers who have continued to influence me from that day onwards." ~ Jonath…
"...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…
"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 …
"There has always been an edge to Lin's choreography; something offbeat about phrasing, something gritty about his vocabulary." Gregory King, Philadelphia.
"Like a sorceress, Pyle stirs together two beloved fairy tales and adds a dash of ballet mythology in the form of Anna Pavlova's The Dying Swan to forge a dance that is timely and timele…
"The bold collaboration brought together the New York based dance company with the Curtis Institute of Music and Choral Art Philadelphia." Gregory King, Philadelphia.
CDI is holding an application information session on Wednesday, May 4, at 6:30pm at Baruch Performing Arts Center.
"Art translates, filters, offers dreams in a new form." ~ Maria Bonzanigo
Congratulations, Laurie Berg, winner of the 4th Annual Tom Murrin Performance Award, aka " The Tommy"!
"I want the work to be a kind of architecture of desire: a place where we move through power and play and erotica and boredom. And that these conditions can coexist," explains Kravas.
"At its third annual Eight Over Eighty benefit gala, The New Jewish Home paid tribute to eight New Yorkers who, in their ninth and tenth decades, continue to live lives of remarkable achieve…
"We view GRIT as a way to make it possible for the present generation's work to be recognized and celebrated in live performance by future audiences." ~ Gina Gibney
"AÂ showcase that spans a wide range of confidence and competence " and often offers up welcome surprises." Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone, New York.
"Sometimes cryptically, though persistently, this ensemble warns us to never presume and enjoy the moment because change is forever upon us." Deirdre Towers, New York.
"Choreographers Kimberleigh Costanzo, Lily Bo Shapiro and MiÅ™enka ÄŒechová create three wildly different works related to the body, physical sensuality, sex and desire," Nicole Loef…
"In the hands of seven female choreographers who've been paired with seven painters and sculptors (also women), the pointe shoe, and sometimes ballet itself, receives a fresh interpretat…
"Throughout the piece, Cohn takes ideas of the traditional, utopian family and smashes them apart, allowing us to see what lies underneath." Theo Boguszewski, New York.Â
"Work Up's tight curation usually means that even if the evening falls flat, the individual dances show remarkable research in one way or another." Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone, New York.
"It may be a company devoted to classical ballet, but it shows best when ballet is the root and not the flower." Erin Bomboy, New York.
"Duet presents the nature and intimacy of coupled movement as expected, but 280 Broadway conjures new possibilities to experience these works from an architectural lens." Melanie Greene, …