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BWW Reviews: Cedar Lake Farewell Performance
I remember where I was when I found out that Cedar Lake was closing--and so do most members of the New York City dance scene. Reactions varied from shock, confusion, anger to the "oh, well all those dancers will get jobs in other companies, so who cares." ...
BWW Reviews: AL SON SON Rouses at Tribeca Performing Arts Center
Ever seen the real Roma, the homegrown flamenco of Spain? It's the kind of harmonic and choreographic precision that leaves a theater breathless, with countless eyes in a daze trying to follow each step of a dancer, pluck of a guitarist and intonation of a singer....
BWW Reviews: ADELAIDE CABARET FESTIVAL 2015: THE TAP PACK Cleverly Combined Dance, Song, And Comedy
It is nigh on impossible to resist a tap show, and so The Tap Pack just had to be on my list....
BWW Reviews: The Victory Dance Project
The Victory Dane Project celebrated its first anniversary on May 11, 2015, with a program that, if not stirring or original, at least caught my interest to see the well trained and very passionately committed young dancers....
BWW Reviews: American Ballet Theatre Performs La Bayadere
Set in the Royal India of the past, La Bayadere is a story of eternal love, mystery, fate, vengeance, and justice. On Tuesday, June 2nd, at the Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, I was transported to this far away place and time by a marvelous cast, with some of ABT's finest dancers, in a mag...
BWW Reviews: ABT's THE SLEEPING BEAUTY at The Met
Review of ABT's timeless recreation of Tchaikovsky and Petipa's 'Sleeping Beauty' as staged by Ratmansky....
BWW Reviews: THE SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET'S 2015 WORKSHOP Offers a Mostly Polished and Always Charming Peek at the Upcoming Generation of Dancers
SAB's annual Workshop performances have been a treasured staple on NYC dance lovers' calendars ever since 1965 when the legendary Alexandra Danilova, then a faculty member, initiated the iconic spring ritual. The event is not a graduation ceremony, but rather a tantalizing glimpse of what the future...
BWW Reviews: VIENNA FESTIVAL BALLET 35TH ANNIVERSARY GALA, Old Rep Theatre Birmingham, May 30 2015
Without a resident theatre or base, Vienna Festival Ballet have achieved remarkable things over the last 35 years since its conception by Austria's most successful ballet dancer, Peter Mallek. They are very much a touring company living and working out of a suitcase but in doing so, have created a s...
BWW Reviews: The Scottish Ballet Brings Americana to the Kennedy Center
The Scottish Ballet performed A Streetcar Named Desire as a ballet at the Kennedy Center on Thursday, May 29th. On its face, this is a ridiculous statement. How could a foreign company perform the iconic American story by Tennessee Williams, much less translate it into pure movement? However, ...
BWW Reviews: THE DEBORAH ZALL PROJECT: IN THE COMPANY OF WOMEN at Martha Graham Studio Theatre
Internationally renowned dancer and choreographer, Deborah Zall, restaged six of her dramatic female solos for the first time this past Thursday at the Martha Graham Studio Theater at Westbeth. This legendary choreography was taken down from the dance bookshelf, brushed off, and performed good as ne...
BWW Reviews: WENDY WHELAN/ RESTLESS CREATURE at The Joyce
Wendy Whelan's 'Restless Creature' is an experiment in choreographic development worthy of cultivation....
BWW Reviews: New York City Ballet's Bournonville Divertissements and La Sylphide
So how far does an afternoon of Bournonville go? I would love to say a long way, yet in the performance on Sunday, May 24 at the Koch Theater, the dancers of the New York City Ballet proved that, while soaring high octane is definitely in their blood, the softer sounds and characterizations of Bourn...
BWW Reviews: FLAMENCO VIVO Exhilarates at BAM
Flamenco Vivo celebrated the inaugural performance of flamenco at BAM with high fashion, and dramatic ingenuity....
BWW Reviews: New York City Ballet Presents 21st Century Choreographers
On May 21, 2015, at the David Koch Theater, New York City Ballet performed three works created by choreographers of today....
BWW Reviews: ABT's 75th ANNIVERSARY GALA Served up a Retrospective Feast of Excerpts from the Company's Incomparable Repertoire
ABT's 75th Anniversary Gala, a balletomane's dream of a performance on May 18th 2015 at the Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center, treated the nearly sold-out audience to a joyous celebration in dance and archival images of the American Ballet Theatre's seven-and-a-half decade reign as 'America...
BWW Reviews: LA SYLPHIDE and HEAR THE DANCE: DENMARK
The Danish choreographer August Bournonville, who predates the NYCBallet's founding by a century, still delights audiences with a repertory cultivated from his Royal Danish Ballet. His aesthetic sparks with joyful spontaneity, and even his most tragic works seem lightly brushed with a pastel warmth....
BWW Reviews: MKE Ballet's CINDERELLA Glitters with Classic Romance
The age-old story of a cinder girl disdained by her step family but destined to change her life to glitter and gold arrived at the Milwaukee Ballet's when Cinderella closed the season. This enchanting fairytale envisioned by Artistic Director Michael Pink captivated the audience with romance and s...
BWW Reviews: CHERYLYN LAVAGNINO DANCE Flourishes at Danspace
Cherylyn Lavagnino's choreography is an audacious blend of signatures, absolutely strong in her guidance of the body to fruition through movement and stillness....
BWW Reviews: The Kennedy Center Presents FEET DON'T FAIL ME NOW by Rhythmic Circus
From the moment Rhythmic Circus's FEET DON'T FAIL ME NOW begins, these multitalented dancers and band members make the energy soar, and work and dance like mad to keep it that way....
BWW Reviews: SUZANNE FARRELL, a Guest of LIVE from NYPL, Recounts Her Legendary Ballet Career
Suzanne Farrell, one of the greatest ballerinas of her generation, proved herself to be a charming and thoroughly engaging raconteur when she appeared on the evening of May 12th 2015 as a guest of LIVE from NYPL. The event at the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street in NYC was abl...
BWW Reviews: With 'Dream Logic,' Aura Curiatlas Offers Mature, Amusing Dance Theatre
Aura Curiatlas, and its current program 'Dream Logic' is dedicated to the idea that with a simple stage, simpler costumes and a sound cue or two, you can create magic. Their evening of 10 dance vignettes is fascinating exploration of dance, physics, romance, with a healthy dose of cheap slapstick....
BWW Reviews: ROTUNDA Blends Contemporary Dance And Big Band Music To Honor The 1915 Gallipoli Landings And The ANZAC Memory.
The New Zealand Dance Company joins with the local City of Holroyd Brass Band to evoke the memories of the Rotunda Bands prominent in the early 20th century and tell the ANZAC story through modern dance and music in ROTUNDA....
BWW Reviews: Mark Dendy Complicates Astor Place History
Books are the structure around which Mark Dendy's NEWYORKnewyork @ Astor Place is built. The cramped Joe's Pub stage is set with an abstracted skyline of books, soon to be destroyed by Mei Yamanaka as she embodies the forces of gentrification that Dendy not-so-subtly suggests are destroying our twic...
BWW Review: Kansas City Ballet Performs DANCES DARING (THEN AND NOW)
With enchanting beauty and grace, the Kansas City Ballet brings Dances Daring (Then and Now) to the stage of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. From the moment of the first curtain rising, to the fall of the final curtain the beautifully crafted and performed movements of the four-part ba...
BWW Reviews: The Gods Prevail in NYCB's Black and White Festival II
Hear the Dance:Russia, covered forty years of Balanchine accompanied by Stravinsky's music from his Apollo, created in 1928 for Diaghilev's Ballet Russes, to 1957's Agon, to two works from 1972, Duo Concertant and Symphony in Three Movements. In Balanchine's temple on Lincoln Center's campus, his ch...
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