In the elevator of the Baryshnikov Arts Center I am met with an exorbitant amount of energy. “I hope we’re not late late late! I want to see him sooo badly,” chirp the people crowded in with me. David Dorfman’s new work-in-progress is entitled The Prophets of Funk and my elevator mates are just as eager as I am to see this profound prophet of dance theater at APAP on Sunday January 9th.

Entering as the newly incarnated piece begins, Dorfman stands in 60s duds and heeled clogs t... Read More

Richard Alston's newest season at the Joyce is a surprising medley of three works, blending disparate styles into one evening of stirring dance.

Alston, a British choreographer, begins the program with Shuffle it Right from 2008- a very American dance for an American audience. Featuring the early jazz music of Hoagy Carmichael, Alston's dancers glide and jive through accentuated low turns with bent wrists, floating along then breaking down with little hops- much like a child who can'... Read More

Though I'm about to see several very professional companies at the NY Skirball Center, the energy feels more like a dance competition than a performance.  There's intensity, discussion in between pieces and altogether a "more real than nervous for the first day of kindergarten" tight-lipped thing happening.  Instantly Dance Gotham feels like a representation of how dance is formed - through communicating and vitality.  The following four companies stood out above the other fou... Read More

Ahhhh . . . The grittiness of the New York City’s Lower East Side, ya gotta love it.  I’m at the Slipper Room checking out their Wednesday evening’s side show for lounge laggards and work-night drunkards and find myself thoroughly entertained by the hand-balancing act of one of the regular fixtures of downtown’s late night “performance art” scene, Monsieur Rudi Macaggi, the Acromedian.

On a seemingly twelve foot stage and rag (curtain) decorated in jewel tones and Mi... Read More

To go to the depths of the lower east east of Manhattan, where it takes an hour to get home or $50 for a cab, you better put on a show that entertains, provokes thought, and inspires me, or else I’m gonna get real mad!   Thursday night, October 8 (the night after seeing the cerebral and intense Forsythe), I trekked my tired dancing feet down to the Abrons Art Center for the opening night of The Chase Brock Experience. 

Very fortunately, I find the company to be extrem... Read More

İOle!  Cries an audience member as the lights came up on Paco Peña and his Flamenco Dance Company Friday night at Town Hall.  They haven't moved a muscle, yet their strong faces and erect postures, the warm gold light gleaming off the guitars and the pure black of the costumes, is already enough to excite the nearly full house.  And we are not disappointed.  Running nearly two and a half hours this show is packed with movement, whether it's any of the three extremely cap... Read More

Fall for Dance is a wonderful, relatively new program (founded in 2004) that features excerpts from the works of over twenty-five international dance companies over a ten evening run.  This is a great opportunity for the public to be exposed to a wide variety of dance, and perhaps develop an affinity for certain artists, resulting in continued patronage. Tickets are only $10, making Fall for Dance a fantastically affordable event.

This year Fall for Dance is recognizing the 100th... Read More

Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre is a hot-off-the press dance company with choreographer, Samar Haddad King, creating dances about the pervading issues and conflicts of today’s world.  King looks at the controversy that arises amongst groups with varying belief systems and what happens when these systems collide.  According to Ms. King, her goal is to “collabora... Read More

Every year, I am always so excited to see City Center’s Fall for Dance festival. The tickets are cheap, and the festival allows starving artists like me to see some of the best dance around.  For the most part, programs I’ve seen have not had a recognizable theme.  On the evening of Wednesday, September 23rd, however, I am struck by the way each piece pays homage -- to great artists, to established rituals, to recognizable societal and artistic themes.  By the end of the e... Read More

Sometimes an audience needs to be told “You’re in a privileged place to learn a thing or two so keep your mouth shut and your eyes open,” which is exactly what happened on Thursday night at the Joyce SoHo when a booming voice echoed those words through the speakers.

Hailing from Mexico and New York, this week Carlos A. Cruz Velázquez's company,  colectivodoszeta, adorns us with an evening of works, -some revivals, one new- and, of course, some surprises.

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