José Limón Dance Company performs radiantly with timeless perfection! Showcasing in New York City at Baryshnikov Arts Center, There is a Time, by Limón, and Rooms, by Limón's close colleague Anna Sokolow, these two legends offer disparate and compelling visions of the same generation in American dance history, both of which to dancers' delight still have the power to speak to us today.
The program opens with Rooms, Solokow's intensely American "masterwork" examin... 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
Doug Elkins' Fraulien Maria is an absolute joy. Featuring exuberant, unbridled dancing and a soundtrack that everyone can sing along to, Elkins' loving send-up of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic "The Sound of Music" is a must-see for the Holiday season.
A man in a tuxedo takes the stage at Dance Theatre Workshop while the houselights are still up. He welcomes the audience and says that we are going to try an experiment. He splits the audience into three sections, then... Read More
Last Life is an R-rated thrill. Timothy Haskell’s new fight play, performed as part of the two-week long Fight Fest at the BRICK theatre in Williamsburg, takes a time-hopping journey through a dark and violent world, leaving... Read More
What can I say? I love The Nutcracker. And the Nutcracker, as performed by Neville Dance Theatre, is a revitalized production full of the magical holiday spirit we know and love.
Growing up in Maine, I fell in love with the Maine State Ballet's Nutcracker, then watched my peers in Robinson Ballet's Nutcracker and, most recently, was awed by the height of Nutcracker heights; New York City Ballet's Nutcracker.
Today, as I go to see Neville Dance Theatre's Nutcracker... Read More
