New York is about laying it all on the line..'if you can make it here you can make it anywhere' and Perceptions Contemporary Dance Company throws their hat in the 'if you can make it here you can make it anywhere' ring of NY with their explosive evening length premier at Teatro LA TEA Theater last Friday. Relocating from Boston to NY 7 months ago, PCDC boasts fourteen highly trained and expressive dancers - including Artistic Director Melissa Gendreau and Assistant Director Molly Fletc... Read More
Armitage Gone's World Premiere of Three Theories at Cedar Lake on Thursday June 3rd undoubtedly proves their staying power. Impetus for this work came from choreographer and artistic director Karol Armitage's reading of Brian Green's best selling book on theoretical physics, The Elegant Universe. The book focuses on the conflict between Einstein's General Theory of Relativity and Quantum Mechanics vs. the newest String Theory. This piece, using dancers as physical icons for... Read More
Dre.Dance's dre.diohead at the LPAC Mainstage Theater on April 30 tells their movement story candidly, ferociously and with a clarity only highly attuned artists possess. In owning their style of movement so completely, each piece resonates as dance in the same way a McDonald's sign resonates as fast food. While dance and fast food don't usually find themselves in the same sentence, this speaks to the raw quality dre.dance emulates. Set to a soundscape of Radiohead music, t... Read More
Written and directed by Twyla Tharp, romance takes literal flight in a picturesque party that lights up the cast and band in Broadway's Come Fly Away at The Marquis Theater. In this tribute to Frank Sinatra, Tharp reigns queen of the classical lifts; within the first ten minutes of the show, she pulls out no less than fifty from her bottomless arsenal! A show tailor-made for all of the Sinatra lovers out there, this production includes a whopping thirty-five songs booming t... Read More
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
