Described as a “rock-dance opera” with lead vocalists and music from the East Village Opera Company, David Parsons' Parsons Dance Company presents their Program A with an evening length work, REMEMBER ME, now being performed at The Joyce Theater for it’s second season. It’s an on-going trend to incorporate more live music into dance works and Parsons does an excellent job bringing in talented singers to belt re-imagined opera classics, opening the doorway to a younger audi... Read More
I walk into City Center excited primarily because of the beautiful photography advertising Christopher Wheeldon's Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company. I am anxiously looking forward to experience the beauty of what this dance Company has to offer.
The show opens up with Christopher Wheeldon's Commedia, a piece where the dancers are wearing white unitards, designed by Isabel and Ruben Toledo, with printed patterns of black much like a mixed up checkerboard. They also wear what... 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
The opening day of the 28th Annual Downtown Dance Festival was not the best representation of what is happening in downtown, or in dance or in any festival I have been to. I found the program to be long, boring, and under rehearsed. There are some saviors, but overall, the first day of the 28th Downtown Dance Festival should have been a great opportunity to get people turned on to dance… but I left totally turned off.
The program opens with a captivating Bharatanat... Read More
REMEMBER ME presented by Operatic Heat, a dance/rock opera featuring Parsons Dance with the lead vocalists and music of East Village Opera Company, will Air Across the Country this Summer:
To Air on WLIW, NYC on Thursday, August 13 at 7:30pm
(originally scheduled for August 13 at 8pm)
Operatic Heat
presents Parsons Dance and the East Village Opera
Company (EVOC) in REMEMBER ME,...
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