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BWW Review: Washington Ballet's THE NUTCRACKER is a Christmas Treat
Washington Ballet's production of The Nutcracker, a beloved DC holiday tradition, has returned to the Warner Theatre in all its splendid glory....
BWW Review: Nashville Ballet's Colorful and Resplendent NASHVILLE'S NUTCRACKER
Since its debut in 2008, Nashville's Nutcracker – choreographer Paul Vasterling's holiday-scented love letter to his adopted hometown – has delighted thousands of audience members eager to experience this particularly rapturous paean to this most wonderful time of the year. Eager to set off on a...
BWW Review: Houston Ballet World Premiere of Stanton Welch's THE NUTCRACKER Is a World-Class Spectacle
As re-imagined by Artistic Director Stanton Welch, the holiday classic pulses with new life and over-the-top theatrics reminiscent of 19th century production at its peak, but brought into the 21st by cutting-edge technology....
BWW Review: The Cincinnati Ballet's NUTCRACKER with Poodles Too at Kennedy Center
As expected this time of year as TV ads, wreaths and shopping center crowds, 'The Nutcracker' has by now gone beyond being merely a beloved holiday tradition to possibly being the country's most performed work of any type - dance, music or theater. Multiple productions of it appear in dozens of citi...
BWW Review: The Rockettes Shine in the RADIO CITY CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR
The iconic Rockettes remain supreme with their eye-high kicks, razor-sharp precision and synchronized choreography. They prance as reindeer, dance as teddy bears, march as wooden soldiers, and tap as rag dolls, all to stunning effect....
BWW Review: BODYTRAFFIC (Dance Cleveland)
A near sold-out audience rose as one following the BODYTRAFFIC dance concert at the Ohio Theatre. They had witnessed a variety of creative, well-executed, serendipitous dance numbers....
BWW Review: Pacific Northwest Ballet Shows Sophistication and Flair
The theme running through the sophisticated, contemporary triple bill now in repertoire for PNB is that of yearning...
BWW Review: UP CLOSE ON HOPE at Festival Ballet Providence
Once again Festival Ballet has put together an Up Close on Hope fall program that is both beautiful and exciting. This year the focus was on shorter pieces, many choreographed by resident choreographer Viktor Plotnikov, as well as Yury Yanowsky and resident dancer Ty Parmenter. While the short piec...
BWW Review: STREB EXTREME ACTION Brings Power and Artistry to Movement at the Kennedy Center
With pure kinetic energy and abounding bravery to boot, it is no wonder the performers of STREB Extreme Action are billed as Action Heroes. The company's three performances of the new work SEA (SINGULAR EXTREME ACTIONS) on November 4-5 at the Eisenhower Theatre marked STREB Extreme Action's Kennedy ...
BWW Review: PATTERN RECOGNITION, Dance Xchange, 3 NOVEMBER 2016
Former Birmingham Royal Ballet and Rambert dancer Alexander Whitley continues an ongoing investigation into relationship between dance and modern technology with Pattern Recognition, seen at Dance Xchange in Birmingham. Performed by two dancers, Julia Sanz Fernandez and David Ledger, Pattern Recogni...
BWW Review: JACQUES' ART NEST at National Dance Institute
'I want every child to have the highest level of arts education and you learn by doing, not by reading about it or seeing it on TV. Our children become the dancers. It changes how they see themselves,' Ellen Weinstein, Artistic Director of NDI....
BWW Review: Cirque du Soleil Creates a Wondrous World in TORUK - THE FIRST FLIGHT
Don LaFontaine was one of the most prolific voice actors in the movie industry for more years than I can even remember, until his death in 2008. You may not know his name but you've certainly heard his deep bass voice and famous catch phrase, 'In a world…' in hundreds of movie trailers during his ...
BWW Review: BILL T. JONES/ARNIE ZANE COMPANY at The Joyce Theater
At times hard to decipher, but always fascinating to watch, Bill T. Jones's "Lance: Pretty aka the Escape Artist" tells the story of dancer, rapper, hustler, and addict Lance T. Briggs, aka Pretty....
BWW Review: San Francisco Ballet's Splendid CINDERELLA at Kennedy Center
Before ballet stages everywhere become crowded with nutcrackers and their gala holiday accouterments, there is still time for other sturdy folk tales of enchantment set to Russian music and popular with children with which to spin off imaginative ballets....
BWW Review: Travis Wall's SHAPING SOUND Continues to Mesmerize Audiences in its Fifth Year
With five years under its belt (or dance belt, if you will), Travis Wall's Shaping Sound continues to mesmerize and stun audiences with innovated, invigorating, and enticing choreography. Wrapping up their fall tour this past weekend after a stop in Syracuse, it's easy to see why Shaping Sound has t...
BWW Review: BLACK DIAMOND by the Danish Dance Theatre at The Kennedy Center
Two masked figures stand over a man lying on the floor. As they begin to dance, the man is swept up into an otherworldly spectacle. Dancers in black capes create a stream of movement across the stage, ushering the outsider and the audience into the strange world of Tim Rushton's choreography....
BWW Dance Review: TAYLOR 2 Graces the Stage with Paul Taylor Favorites
On the weekend of October 15 & 16, 2016, Taylor 2 returned to the Schimmel Center at Pace University to bring some of our favorite Paul Taylor pieces to a cozy and intimate setting. Taylor 2 was established in 1993 as a way to ensure Mr. Taylor's work could be seen by all audiences, even in the smal...
BWW Review: RUN, 2 FACED DANCE, Dance Xchange, 14 October 2016
2 Faced Dance Company's Run is an evening of dance presented by three female choreographers, featuring three new works from the company's artistic director Tamsin Fitzgerald, Prague-based Lenka Vagnerova and the first BENCH commission recipient Rebecca Evans. All three pieces - danced by 2 Faced Dan...
BWW Review: Teatro ZinZanni's Exuberant WELCOME TO WONDERLAND
I don't think I've ever seen a bad Teatro ZinZanni show. I mean I really don't think there could be one unless they inexplicably decided to sit on the stage and blankly stare at the audience for three hours while serving us large plates of runny eggs and sour milk. Teatro ZinZanni shows are always...
BWW Review: LOVE at The Mirage
As a first time traveler to Las Vegas, this reviewer thought that it would be crucial to check out one of the most well known franchises synonymous with Sin City. Cirque du Soleil holds a solid reputation as the most entrenched production company in Las Vegas culture and for good reason. Combining a...
BWW Review: DEMO: HEROES at Kennedy Center
Melding all forms of the arts into a cohesive program is never an easy task. Former New York City Ballet dancer Damian Woetzel is trying to do this with a series called Demo, which brings artists from the worlds of theatre, dance and opera together on one stage....
BWW Review: ADELAIDE OZASIA FESTIVAL 2016: SPLIT FLOW & HOLISTIC STRATA: HIROAKI UMEDA Pushes Many Boundaries
Hiroaki Umeda is a truly magical performance maker....
BWW Review: ADELAIDE OZASIA FESTIVAL 2016: VERTIGO DANCE COMPANY: VERTIGO 20 Embraces Two Decades Of Dance
Vertigo 20 is a selection of contemporary dance sequences....
BWW Review: THE TEMPEST, Birmingham Royal Ballet, 4 October 2016
As the celebrations of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death draw to a close, the Birmingham Royal Ballet present the anticipated new creation from David Bintley, The Tempest. The Tempest has fascinated David Bintley for over 20 years. After two decades of research and exploration, he finally...
BWW Review: 2016 Fall For Dance is Underway at New York City Center
This year's Fall for Dance Festival includes twenty different dance companies and groups performing a potpourri of different styles of dance, four groups per performance, each performing on two consecutive nights. On Wednesday, September 28, 2016 I saw the first of two nights of four presentations....
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