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BWW Review: RADIO CITY CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR Takes Flight with the Glorious Rockettes
It's the most wonderful time of the year at Radio City Music Hall! The Rockettes are in fine form and have kicked off the holiday season with another slick and polished production that's directed and choreographed with finesse by Julie Branam. Just watching that glorious orchestra rising up out of t...
BWW Review: Ohio State Students Showcase Dance Skills in High-Energy DANCE DOWNTOWN Performance
Students from Ohio State University's Department of Dance took to the Capitol Theatre stage Saturday night for the annual Dance Downtown event, performing pieces that touched upon myriad topics from climate change to the infusion of art and movement....
BWW Review: Ronald K. Brown/Evidence Celebrates its 30th Anniversary at BRIC
Shining a spotlight on human struggles, tragedies and triumphs, and bearing witness to the atrocities against black bodies in America is the mission of Ronald K. Brown/Evidence, A Dance Company, illustrated soulfully, urgently and purposefully through a fusion of traditional African dance and modern...
BWW Review: Twyla Tharp's Crazy Creative World
Twyla Tharp has been a major player in the dance world for fifty years, and is one of the most prolific, living American choreographers. While many know her from her work in Hair, Tharp's body of work is much larger. According to the program, Tharp has created over 160 works including "129 dances,...
BWW Review: LIFE IN PROGRESS Reflects on Love, Loss and Time
A solitary tree, withered and skeletal, lit by a spotlight and ominous percussion. Suddenly, she appeared, crawling rapidly in a storm and fervently circling said tree over and over again. This arresting display is how Life in Progress commenced opening night at the lush New York City Center, kickin...
BWW Review: Natalie Weir's CARMEN SWEET Shows Three Sides To The Femme Fatale in Beautiful Dance
The famous story of CARMEN is reinterpreted in Expressions Dance Company and Queensland Performing Arts Centre's production of Natalie Weir's CARMEN SWEET. Three sides to the Spanish Gypsy are seen through three different dancers as she toys with the naive solder's affections. ...
BWW Review: REVERBDANCE FESTIVAL Celebrates 10 Years
What a wonderful and stimulating compilation of works by both seasoned and emerging contemporary dance artists! REVERBdance, in partnership with Steps Beyond Foundation, presented the 10th anniversary of the REVERBdance Festival at the Baruch Performing Arts Center on November 6-8, 2015. Here, danc...
BWW Review: Troy Schumacher's BalletCollective
Entering New York University's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts on November 5, 2015, dancers from Troy Schumachers's group, BalletCollective, were already warming up on stage. You could feel the excitement in the air. All one had to do was scream 'go' and the dancers, high on performance octa...
BWW Review: HAGOROMO Meditates on the Contrasts Between Heaven and Earth
Rich in history and antiquated opulence, the BAM Harvey served as the ideal theater for David Michalek's imaginative Hagoromo, the world premiere of a multi-medium artistic portrait of self-proclaimed "Sky, Earth, World, Flesh". A venue rooted to its past with an aesthetic that looks toward the futu...
BWW Review: GARTH FAGAN DANCE Celebrates 45 Years in NYC
In a mix of old favorites and two world premieres by Norwood Pennewell and, of course, Fagan himself, Garth Fagan Dance celebrated its 45th anniversary at The Joyce Theater in a week-long engagement, November 3-8, 2015. Honoring such a significant milestone in the company is a great time to showcase...
BWW Review: TIME FOR US Connects with Atlanta Audiences
French choreographer Fabien Prioville and his wife, Azusa Seyama, explore the codependent need for intimacy and the physical exertion that goes into relationships through a series of touching vignettes....
BWW Review: The Minstrel Show Revisited
Frederick Douglass once described blackface performers as '...the filthy scum of white society, who have stolen from us a complexion, denied them by nature, in which to make money, and pander to the corrupt taste of their white fellow citizens.'...
BWW Review: Tiempo Libre's Music is the Star of Artist Rep's World Premiere Musical CUBA LIBRE
Loosen your hips, get out your dancing shoes, and get ready to salsa at Artists Rep's world premiere musical CUBA LIBRE....
BWW Review: BalletMet's DRACULA Haunts Halloween Stage with Dark Drama
Halloween isn't always just about candy and kids in costumes -- it also often calls to mind the supernatural fantasies that haunt our nightmares. Last weekend, BalletMet delved into the spine-chilling story of Bram Stoker's "Dracula," just in time for the ghoulish holiday....
BWW Review: BALLET MEMPHIS Brings Diversity and a Southern Sensibility to a Run at the Joyce
In the wake of the media frenzy about African-American ballerina Misty Copeland, a recent article in The New York Times by Gia Kourlas applauds the fact that the American Ballet Theatre and the New York City Ballet are featuring black, Asian, Latino, and multiracial dancers 'where it matters most: L...
BWW Review: Jose Limon
I wish I could have been more enthusiastic about the all-Jose Limon program on October 25, 2015, at 2 pm. It wasn't the dancers-just the repertory....
BWW Review: RAMBERT'S ROOSTER Steals The Show in Birmingham
Rambert's eagerly awaited return to Birmingham showcases their reputation as Britain's national dance company, extending the reach of their world class dance to the Midlands with an accessible triple bill of works, Frames, Transfigured Night and Rooster, performed at the Birmingham Repertory Theat...
BWW Review: INTIMACY Is A Moving And Rewarding Performance
Michelle Ryan is a sensational dancer, an equally superb choreographer, and a great inspiration to others....
BWW Review: MKE Ballet Haunts Uhlein Hall in Pink's Thrilling DRACULA
When the curtainss opened in Uhlein Hall last weekend at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, Milwaukee Ballet unfolded Michael Pink's world renowned Dracula to a mesmerized audience. While the stage Dracula seduced his prey, the ballet company danced with sensual abandon in technical beau...
BWW Review: AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE Is as Versatile as Ever in a Mixed Bill
According to a 1998 review of ABT by Jack Anderson in The New York Times, publicists for the company in the early days used to call the troupe 'a museum of the dance.' Anderson commented that this is a good phrase to describe the company 'provided one realizes that great museums can encourage new ar...
BWW Review: Festival Ballet's Underwhelming BALLET RUSSES REINVENTED
Festival Ballet Providence kicks off their 2015-2016 season with a somewhat underwhelming Ballet Russes Reinvented. The program, which features three shorter pieces and a longer section from The Firebird focuses on classical pieces from Russian ballet, particularly the work of Nijinsky and tries t...
BWW Review: Vasterling's DRACULA From Nashville Ballet
Darkly sensual and broodingly sexy, Paul Vasterling's balletic interpretation of Bram Stoker's legendary anti-hero Dracula (first presented in 1999 and revived in 2007) remains as potent and as stirring as ever, richly conceived and beautifully performed by the dancers of Nashville Ballet, who offer...
BWW Review: Back to Afro-Futurism
Afrofuturism is a literary, cultural and otherwise artistic aesthetic that combines elements of science fiction, history, fantasy and magic realism to address issues concerning people of color. So where does queerness fit into this aesthetic? Some answers could be found in afroFUTUREqu##r, a four-da...
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