Step number one, in considering Lar Lubovich’s program at the Joyce Thursday night, is opening this in your browser while you read this review: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I6xkVRWzCY.
This show is a delightful group of dances presented by the talented Lar Lubovitch Dance Company. It starts off with “Nature Boy: Kurt Elling” featuring solos by Christopher Vo and three duets. As the curtain rises, the core company is moving fluidly in a circular... Read More
Come to Fresh Tracks presented by Dance Theater Workshop and expect to be surprised. Fresh Tracks 2010 offers some shocking works from new choreographers seeking to get their names out there.
First on the program is up and down by Makiko Tamura who also dances in the piece alongside Ryoji Sasamoto. The dance is inspired by a long distance relationship of two people with the world in between. One is on top, experiencing day, when the opposite is on bo... 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
iDANZ Supports Doctors Without Borders
in their Haiti Relief Efforts.
MSF/Doctors Without Borders has been working in Haiti for 19 years, most recently operating three emergency hospitals in Port-au-Prince, and is mobilizing a large emergency response to the Haiti/earthquake disaster. Can you please help them provide medicine, surgeons, nurses, and supplies to victims in this crisis?
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DanceNow at Dance Theater Workshop presents 50 works from a wide assortment of dance companies giving each artist seven minutes in which to show their stuff. They invite you to “find your artistic crush” from among the various companies which range from emerging to mature artists. Wednesday night, my heart went pitter-pat for Amber Sloan and Kyle Abraham.
Amber Sloan’s premiere ‘Below’ is the gem of the performance Wednesday night. The piece begins with Matthew Rogers... Read More