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BWW Review: Houston Ballet Showcases Sumptuous MADAME BUTTERFLY and Spare SON OF CHAMBER SYMPHONY
The current offering from the Houston Ballet, MADAME BUTTERFLY with SON OF CHAMBER SYMPHONY, is a study of contrasts - economy and luxury....
BWW Review: CLOUD CUCKOOLAND: A STORY ABOUT DEATH
Ballet, Belly Dance... birds? Desert Sin's latest production Cloud Cuckooland: A Story About Death is a multimedia melange of music, dance, puppetry and aerial arts with sprinklings of spoken word all set against a backdrop of constantly shifting projections....
BWW Review: OZASIA FESTIVAL 2016: SOFTMACHINE: RIANTO Explores The Fine Line Between Man And Woman
Rianto displays amazing control and ability....
BWW Review: ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER, 23 September 2016
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater tour the UK for the first time in 6 years, presented by the amazing Dance Consortium. Hailed by the US Congress as "a vital American cultural ambassador to the world", the company perform original works by the late Alvin Ailey - including his most famous and critic...
BWW Review: CASTLES Penetrates as Synaptic Synonymic Sensation Phantasm at Old 505 Theatre
Pushing the boundaries of the performance art from is no easy task, and neither is adapting the quick-fire connective nature of the brain for the stage, and yet in House of Sands' Castles, Eliza Sanders accomplishes both, and more. In a work all at once intimate, quintessentially Australian, randomi...
BWW Review: LEGALLY BLONDE 'Appeals' to Everyone!
Legally Blonde, which is based on the novel by Amanda Brown and the renowned Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer motion picture, opened this past Friday at the South Bend Civic Theatre to much buzz and anticipation. As I sat in the audience on Saturday night waiting for the musical to begin, all around me I was hea...
BWW Dance Review: Pushing the Envelope Forward with NEW CHAMBER BALLET
On September 16, 2016, Artistic Director, Miro Magloire, and company New Chamber Ballet, kicked off its' 2016-17 season with an exciting mix of old and new works at the City Center Studios. With this not being my first time seeing the troupe perform, I was curious what to expect since I saw them las...
BWW Review: AMERICAN INGENUITY Showcases Powerful Performances From Houston Ballet
BWW Review: AMERICAN INGENUITY Showcases Powerful Performances From Houston Ballet...
BWW Review: RE(D)GENERATION Comes from the Earth at the Center For Contemporary Arts
Dancing Earth takes contemporary dance a step further-because they root within their immemorial indigenous identity. Theirs was not a dance of abstract gestures through undefined space; their movement was growth, upon a dancing earth....
BWW Review: BATTERY DANCE FESTIVAL Continues to Enthrall
'Lovely, never, never change. Keep your breathless charm. Won't you please arrange it? 'Cause I love you.' Those glorious Dorothy Fields penned lyrics to Jerome Kern's evergreen 'The Way You Look Tonight' bubbled through my head during Kilowatts Dance Theatre's joyful performance of Jaime Shannon's ...
BWW Review: BALLETX, Philly's Groundbreaking Contemporary Company, Offers Three NYC Premieres at the Joyce
On August 16th 2016, opening night of a six-day run at the Joyce, BalletX did not disappoint dancegoers anticipating a taste of the quirky fare for which the troupe has become known. Billing itself as 'Philadelphia's premier contemporary ballet', the company has from its inception in 2005 been what ...
BWW Review: ERASING BORDERS FESTIVAL Transports The Audience To A Higher Plane
A highlight of this year's Erasing Borders Festival was that it took place on Indian Independence Day; perhaps that is why each artist infused the work with such celestial splendor. We opened with Carolina Prada of Colombia - who is based in New Dehli, India - performing the choreography of her Guru...
BWW Review: BATTERY DANCE FESTIVAL Dances To Glory Through Rain and Shine
A gracious speech given by Jonathan Hollander - Artistic Director of Battery Dance Company - opened the 35th annual Battery Dance Festival. There was a welcome emphasis on all that went into making this festival possible, including calls for thanks to: Council member Margaret Chin and her continued ...
BWW Review: ADELAIDE GUITAR FESTIVAL 2016: BANDALUZIA: COOPERS LATE NIGHT SESSIONS Electrified The Space Theatre
It is to be hoped that we see more of this Australian group here in Adelaide....
BWW Review: THE SARASOTA BALLET Celebrates Sir Frederick Ashton's Legacy
An air of bravura swirled through the Joyce Theatre on the evening of Tuesday, August 9th 2016 as The Sarasota Ballet premiered its 26th season with 'A Knight of the British Ballet,' the company's love letter to famed choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton. Led by director,Ian Webb, the company prepared...
BWW Review: Colors Fly in BalletMet's New BECOMING VIOLET Video Project
Although its 2016-17 season is not set to begin until September, some dancers from BalletMet are adding color to the summer with a new video project....
BWW Review: ROSIE HERRERA DANCE THEATRE Concludes AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL's Premiere NYC Season
Although the Rosie Herrera Dance Theatre has performed in NYC before, the company's appearance from August 4th to 6th 2016 as the second half of the American Dance Festival's first season in the Big Apple included the New York debut of Herrera's Carne Viva. The work was commissioned by ADF....
BWW Review: PROVINCIAL DANCES THEATRE Offers an Auspicious Start to AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL's First NYC Season
Opening night on August 1st 2016 of a shared week at the Joyce presented by the venerable American Dance Festival got the six-day run off to an auspicious start. Provincial Dances Theatre, a company from Russia, treated dancegoers to two mesmerizing contemporary works by Tatiana Baganova that will a...
BWW Review: LA DANCE PROJECT Bombs at The Joyce
Three men engage in acrobatic entanglements that transform from free-moving sculptural configurations to crumpled masses of bodies that roll all over the floor of a darkly lit fog filled stage. Resembling an improv-ed floor-work exercise full of incongruously musical acrobatic manipulations, this in...
BWW Review: FINI DANCE FESTIVAL Parties La Via Italiana
Though it was hot and muggy on the evening of July 24th, 2016, the jam-packed audience at Manhattan Movement & Arts Center was grinning agog like newly minted parents infatuated with their brood. The cause: a troupe of adorable bambine from Staten Island Ballet performing Ellen Tharp's 'Tarantella'....
BWW Reviews: Doug Varone and Dancers Further the Art
Doug Varone and Company impress at Bates Dance Fest with new and classic work....
BWW Review: iLUMINATE Does Much More Than Just Light Up
In iLuminate you're transported on a thrill seeking yet mind-boggling ride. The energetic nine-member troupe is full of expert dancers who dance full-throttle the entire show. Their unified razor-sharp work is worthy of the precision of the Radio City Rockettes....
BWW Dance Review: BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play
BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! offered New Yorkers a free evening of empowering music and dance at the Prospect Park Bandshell on July 21st 2016. The program began with Brandee Younger's glistening jazzy harp music following the traditions of Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane. Younger's mellow jazzy mu...
BWW Review: CINDERELLA, The Australian Ballet, London Coliseum, 20 July 2016
The Australian Ballet return to the London Coliseum this summer with the UK debut of Alexei Ratmansky's Cinderella, created on the company in 2013. Sleek, surreal and contemporary, there is no trace of a pumpkin or any talking mice in this new adaptation of the classic fairy tale....
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