YAGP Gala presents a delightful mixture of dance prodigies and top dancers from around the world.
All week the city has been buzzing with visiting dancers from top international dance schools. Recently, I’ve been encountering the YAGP people quite a bit around the city in classes at Peridance and Steps. Now, I get to see them perform at New York City Center for the gala performance. YAGP attracts dance school personnel from top schools to recruit and award scholarsh... Read More
Stephen Petronio is living his moment the opening night of his New York season at the Joyce Theater. Located in Chelsea, the posh notoriously gay neighborhood, the Joyce Theater is swarming with just the type. The bar is busy, with people partaking of the specialty cocktail “Love Me Tender” and cherry flavored popcorn, both in Petronio’s favorite color-pink! And it is certainly time for celebration; this company has survived the big city for 25 years, grow... Read More
A hip new version of The Whiz: Emerald City is whizzing about New York City, courtesy of nicholas leichter dance. With an amazing recent run at Joe’s Pub, this production is provocative and unique, blending new music and fresh moves. Without a solid yellow brick road to follow, the numbers flow easily from one to the next, performers streaming in and out of the audience. The show is diverse in its array of dances and musical numbers, delighting the palate along with the y... 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
The Joyce SoHo often presents unique, even avant-garde artists, and Elfi Schaefer-Schafroth exemplifies this fact. As a soloist choreographer and dancer, she has created more than five full-length solo works and toured the world performing them. In her work, she may incorporate movement phrases given to her by an international group of her friends and colleagues, which contributes diversity and greater depth. Her work successfully incorporates several points of view, as she... Read More
