The struggle for balance is one that all dancers know well. Check out The MacArthur Dance Project and Brian Senti’s From The Margins, This, Unmentioned at The Brooklyn Lyceum to watch their struggle to win this very battle. The gorgeous space, architectural costumes, dancers, video projection, orchestra and singers shine against an exposed brick wall and come to a screeching halt before they hit sensory overload. Based on five poems about a young girl’s descent, pr... Read More
Dance Review: Da∙Da∙Dance says "Yeah right," Da∙Da∙Dance
Project at Joyce SoHo
Da∙Da∙Dance Project is a company of two; Korean born Eun Jung Choi-Gonzalez, and Guillermo Ortega Tanus of Mexico, its conception inspired by Dadaism. The literal translation of da da into English is "yeah yeah," as in a sarcastic "yeah right." With reoccurring moments of absurdity, Da∙Da∙Dance Project seems to be saying "yeah right" to conventional modern dance throughout the even... Read More
Da∙Da∙Dance Project is a company of two; Korean born Eun Jung Choi-Gonzalez, and Guillermo Ortega Tanus of Mexico, its conception inspired by Dadaism. The literal translation of da da into English is "yeah yeah," as in a sarcastic "yeah right." With reoccurring moments of absurdity, Da∙Da∙Dance Project seems to be saying "yeah right" to conventional modern dance throughout the evening.
In Ploy, the first of four duets, the two enter, their bodies covered in squares... Read More
DA•DA•DANCE Project
in association with Joyce SoHo
Presents
Butter and Fly: Intends to Walk
at Joyce SoHo
July 30-August 1
[Thurs-Sat] at 8:00PM
Admission: $18; $12 stu/sr
Under peeling post-it garments and full-length raincoats, the complexity of human behavior is exp... Read More
Barnard Project presents a spectrum of Contemporary dance from the purely Postmodern to funky House fusion. What sets Barnard apart from some of the other schools I have seen this season is that Barnard is not a conservatory, but a liberal arts college. They seem freed from the trappings of ‘high culture/virtuosic performance’. T... Read More