BWW Review: MARIKO'S MAGICAL MIX Gets Kids Interested in Dance
Explore a world of shadows in music in this world premiere.
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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.
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".
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
BWW Reviews: The Ashley Bouder Project Performs at the Joyce Theater
On Saturday, August 8, 2015, The Ashley Bouder Project presented their first of two performances participating in the Joyce Theater's Ballet Festival.
BWW Reviews: Maine State Ballet Presents Lovely, Lyrical COPPELIA
Maine State Ballet's latest production of Coppelia is marked by a lovely wistfulness and lyricism and bolstered by fine choreography and impressive dancing.
