Pilobolus has absolutely perfected performance art! After thirty-nine years, Pilobolus still brings innovation that challenges their artists and thrills audiences, which I got to experience first hand this past Monday evening at The Joyce Theater in New York City. This evening, Pilobolus adds to their superior athletic and dynamic reputation by flaunting their fluidity and grace on top of their ability to tell a story.
The opening piece, Lantera Magica, take... Read More
Waking into Joyce SoHo for the performance of Deacadance Theater, I am immediately massaged by the sounds of Hip-Hop beats. Creating the vibe on the ones and twos is DJ Henry C, spinning the joints that hype everyone to get crunk. Finally the house lights dim and the crowd erupts into thunderous applause, and we are ready.
The first piece on the bill, choreographed by Jennifer Weber, The Cage (inspired by Jerome Robbins), takes hip hop dance soaring to heights as high as t... Read More
With a clever mind, his heart on his sleeve and a pair of supernatural feet, Savion Glover, the artist, unleashes mind-boggling rhythms in his current production, “Sole Power” at Manhattan’s mecca for exemplary dance, The Joyce Theatre. In the footsteps of tap legends, Savion Glover pays homage, one beat-filled rhythm at a time, to those of the past in a futuristic format.
With feet from another galaxy, Savion poses the question, "Can you see sound?" Sound had better... Read More
"Keep SLYDE Alive! . . . with a Y."
Performance: Savion Glover's "Sole Power"
Venue: Joyce Theater, www.Joyce.org
Run: June 21 - July 10, 2010
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Definitely an inspiration to all young tappers and future Broadway dancers... Savion Glover takes the theater world by storm with youthful zeal as a 12 year old prodigy performing in his first Broadway show, The Tap Dance Kid. By 15 year...
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I'm a Jersey boy, loud and proud. It wasn't until I moved to London at 19 to study dance did i begin to question or understand my heritage. I would tell people,"oh ya know, I'm 1/4 French, 1/4 Italian, a little German etc.. and my English friends would say, "Are you baking a cake? A little of this a little of that? What are you talking about? YOU'RE AMERICAN!"
So what is it to be American? Martha Graham asked this question over 80 years ago, and never fo... Read More
