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BWW Review: BREAKING BALLET World Premiere Shatters Preconceptions of Dance
The world premiere of BalletMet's "Breaking Ballet" thrust audiences into a world where the music of Cyndi Lauper, the tradition of classical ballet and the serendipity of urban romance converged on the same stage within a single two-hour program....
BWW Review: GISELLE Opens LA Ballet's 10th Season Celebrating the Great Romantics
Premiered by Los Angeles Ballet in 2011, GISELLE is a haunting and ethereal masterwork; the perfect embodiment of the Romantic ideal to kick off its tenth season. Continuing its mission to offer world-class professional ballet to greater Los Angeles, the season will include four full-length story ba...
BWW Review: MARIKO'S MAGICAL MIX Gets Kids Interested in Dance
Explore a world of shadows in music in this world premiere....
BWW Reviews: CRAWL: CHAPTER 4 - Dante Brown, Gregory Dolbashian
The People Movers presented their final installment of their inaugural season of CRAWL, a multi-disciplinary arts series. CRAWL's mission is to provide a platform for a diverse range of creative emerging artists to 'radically change the way that contemporary art is seen and experienced.' Set in a wa...
BWW Review: NEW YORK CITY BALLET Serves up a Five-Course Feast of Ballets to the Music of American Composers
There may be no better way to chase the gloom of an unseasonably chilly and wind-whipped evening in NYC than to watch New York City Ballet's delightfully varied quintuple-bill entitled "Americana X Five". On October 2nd 2015, with Hurricane Joaquin's approach bringing on a gusty downpour, I was amon...
BWW Review: BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET'S SWAN LAKE Still Stunning After 25 Years
The Birmingham Royal Ballet's first production of the season is always a special occasion, and even more so this year as the company celebrate the 25th anniversary of their move to Birmingham. In the past 25 years, Birmingham Royal Ballet have performed Swan Lake a total of 582 times, from Thailand ...
BWW Review: BATSHEVA - The Young Ensemble is Performing at the Joyce Theater
On opening night, September 29, 2015, we experienced a great burst of energy by this focused, well-rehearsed, professional company, Batsheva - The Young Ensemble: Ohad Naharin, Artistic Director; Adi Salent, Associate Artistic Director; and Matan David, Ensemble Director. For this debut, September 2...
BWW Reviews: REACH MUSIC & DANCE 'FUSION98' Gets Families Bursting With Musical Explosion
REACH is a non-for-profit Artistic Development Organization and is the brain child of Julliard Graduate Jason Reed who started REACH 10 years ago in 2005. REACH serves to assist a community in PA with the opportunity to mentor young people through education and the arts....
BWW Review: Dancer MARK C. REIS Brings New Cabaret to Sterling's
On Sunday September 27 at Sterling's Upstairs at the Federal, dancer Mark C. Reis debuted his brand new cabaret show I'd Enjoy Being a Girl...on Broadway. Reis had tremendous success in 2012 with his first show at Sterling's called Diapers, Dishes and Dreams...Stories of a Dancer about his gay m...
BWW Reviews: NEW YORK CITY BALLET'S “Swan Lake” Gets Dance 10, Costumes and Scenery 0
New York City Ballet's 'Swan Lake', which opened the 2015 fall season with performances from September 22nd to 29th, is a testament to the old adage that goes 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it.' In creating this iteration of one of the most beloved staples in ballet's classical canon, Artistic Direct...
BWW Review: A Powerful Evening with CAMILLE A. BROWN & DANCERS
Camille A. Brown & Dancers, notably recognized for their introspective approach to cultural themes and socio-political dialogues, kicked off its 2015-2016 season tour with the world premiere of their newest work entitled BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play for a week-long engagement at The Joyce Theater, ru...
BWW Review: Trainor Dance's Fifth Anniversary Season at Ailey
Trainor Dance's fifth anniversary season opened with multi-colored ghosts descending from the sky- silk skirts that featured as heavily as the dancers themselves in this excerpt of Faux Pas. The fabric was manipulated into a variety of shapes and garments, which has led many to draw comparisons with...
BWW Review: Excavating the Complexities of Collaboration in Joanna Kotze's 'Find Yourself Here' at Baryshnikov Arts Center
Collaborations in Dance often operate on the following formula: Choreographer and designated visual, film and/or sound artist decide to collaborate. They meet, they discuss, they agree on a concept, they work independently for several months. The resulting piece is a dance with supported sound and v...
BWW Review: Mark Dendy's WHISTLEBLOWER Explores Identity, Patriotism
The morning after the premiere of Mark Dendy's Whistleblower at Dixon Place comes disturbing news that the military is forcing transwoman and former intelligence office Chelsea Manning to follow male grooming standards while imprisoned. Dendy's timing is lucky. His piece explores Manning's mind as s...
BWW Review: CLOUD GATE DANCE THEATRE OF TAIWAN Mesmerizes Audiences
As part of the 2015 Next Wave Festival, the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan had its US premiere of the piece Rice on September 16-19 at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House. The company's founder and Artistic Director, Lin Hwai-min, s a recent recipient of the Samuel H. Scripps/American Dance Festiv...
BWW Review: YOUR OWN MAN/MAD NOTIONS - Finding the Beat of Your Own Drum
Luke Murphy's svelte demeanour can instantly give way to warrior-like choreography. Why then is he struggling to break free from his cages?...
BWW Review: DANCE NOW's Closing Night
Last Saturday I had the pleasure of punctuating my night at Joe's Pub for DANCE NOW- an innovative dance festival, celebrating its 20th year, featuring brief dance vignettes on a bite size stage. The pub was vibrant- a full house buzzing with anticipation under chic, mood lighting... ...
BWW Review: A Captivating Evening with NEW CHAMBER BALLET
On September 11-12, choreographer and company director Miro Magloire kicked off the New Chamber Ballet's 2015-16 season with an intimate gathering at the City Center Studios. Magloire, a native of Munich, Germany, began his career as a composer before moving to New York to pursue dance. His work dra...
BWW Review: WEAVER WOMAN Entrances at Scotiabank Dance Centre
For fear of falling into the Eurocentric trap of appreciating East Asian literature through an Anglophone lens, what must be said first is that Korean author O Ch?ngh?i is an incomparable visionary of the heart....
BWW Review: KOKORO Enlightens at Wreck Beach
Butoh is a sacred modern art. Originally spawned of postwar Japan, Butoh has since invigorated the world to a new style of movement. Kokoro dances Butoh in the nude. From the lower mainland of British Columbia to the world, this Dancing on the Edge Festival surely lives up to its name....
BWW Review: EDGE SERIES Tantalizes at Firehall Arts Centre
If art does not make the public more capable of feeling, of seeing the world through other eyes, and wanting positive change for all, then it only perpetuates class division, and in so doing, social strife....
BWW Review: IT FOLDS - Old Horse Town
In this beguiling co-production, junk ensemble and Brokentalkers place confidence in a cast of strangers....
BWW Review: PEARL at Lincoln Center is Extraordinary Through 8/30
'Pearl' will be presented at Lincoln Center's David H. Koch Theater through Sunday, August 30th. This spectacular dance theater presentation pays honor and tribute to the life of Pearl S. Buck....
BWW Review: Martha Graham Dance Company's EMBATTLED GARDEN
As part of an on-going series, “GrahamDeconstructed,” the Martha Graham Dance Company presented an intimate showing at the Martha Graham Studio Theater of the iconic piece Embattled Garden, Graham's wry meditation on love's strife inspired by the story of Adam and Eve, with music by world-renown...
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