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BWW Reviews: Ballet, Inc.
This quirky ballet company blended ballet on pointe and contemporary/modern dance together to create a smooth and flowing movement....
BWW Reviews: Ballets With A Twist Present COCKTAIL HOUR at UC PAC
Ballets With A Twist performed 'Cocktail Hour' at Union County Performing Arts Center in Rahway and the audience was captivated....
BWW Reviews: Ballet in Cinema From Emerging Pictures Presents SPARTACUS
Spartacus is like camp. Not summer camp, but Susan Sontag camp, who wrote in that brainy, immortal essay , 'Camp helps account for the fact that opera and ballet are experienced as such rich treasures of Camp, for neither of these forms can easily do justice to the complexity of human nature. ' This...
BWW Reviews: Miguel Gutierrez Performs 'myendlesslove' at Abrons Art Center
With intervallic thrusts of kiss-and-tell performance, myendlesslove plunges further and further into the depths of heartbreak, and it is not the kind of heartbreak that we recover from experiencing easily, even as a third party....
BWW Reviews: Wheeldon's CINDERELLA Meanders and Misses the Mark
As I mentioned last week in my largely favorable review of one of the San Francisco Ballet's mixed bills at the Koch Theatre in NYC, the company under the direction of Helgi Tommasen is first rate. Yet the excellent dancing in Christopher Wheeldon's 'Cinderella', which I saw on Friday evening, could...
BWW Reviews: Matthew Bourne Turns SLEEPING BEAUTY into a Spellbinding Gothic Romance
With "Sleeping Beauty", the third ballet in Matthew Bourne's Tchaikovsky trilogy that includes "Nutcracker!" and "Swan Lake", the award-winning British choreographer has once again proved himself to be not only a gifted dancemaker but a masterful storyteller. The production, correctly billed as "A G...
BWW Reviews: James Brown - Get on the Good Foot: A Dance Celebration
'Give the people what they came for' James Brown said in reference to his shows, and it seemed that the Apollo set out to do just that on the opening night of 'James Brown - Get on the Good Goot' dance celebration concert in Harlem....
BWW Reviews: San Francisco Ballet's From Foreign Lands - Symphonic Dances - Suite en Blanc
San Francisco Ballet's mixed rep program showed off its strong dancers from top to bottom featuring the star power of resident prima ballerina, Maria Kotchetkova....
BWW Reviews: VOICES OF ITALY Comes to NYC
Italy came to New York City, and in a big way! Not speaking Italian wouldn't stop anyone from enjoying this show. Voices of Italy was fantastic! Full of passion and energy, the show was nonstop excitement from beginning to end....
BWW Reviews: INTERMEZZO
In music, intermezzo is a musical composition that is partnered with another work of art, usually a play or other, larger musical compositions. Following this definition, Intermezzo, a spectacular new ballet company, entirely lives up to its name. There is no greater joy than an evening at the balle...
BWW Reviews: Ecstatic Sight and Sound at the ARB American Artist Showcase
Performing at the Hamilton Stage, the American Repertory Ballet staged three joyous short ballets: VIVA VIVALDI, CARESS, and FAERIE TYME....
BWW Reviews: Lar Lubovitch Dance Company Celebrates 45th Anniversary at The Joyce
The 45th anniversary season of the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company provided a glimpse into Lar Lubovitch's prolific career as a dance maker, showcasing both well-known and new works. Program B, presented at The Joyce Theater from October 15-20, featured a variety of pieces that emphasize Lubovitch's tal...
BWW Reviews: SAN FRANCISCO BALLET Treats NYC Audiences to Two Weeks of East Coast Premieres
I still remember how surprised I was as a young dancer to learn that the first professional ballet company in the United States, the San Francisco Ballet, was not established until 1933. Given the fact that the Paris Opera Ballet was founded almost three centuries earlier in 1673, I realized that da...
BWW Reviews: Mark Stuart Presents STANDARD TIME World Premiere at Lancaster PA's Fulton Theatre
Choreographer Mark Stuart unveils his vision of social history in America through a spectacular combination of dance styles, with an eye to Broadway...
BWW Reviews: NEW YORK CITY BALLET Offers Faithful and Flawless Renditions of Some of Mr. B's Greatest Hits
I have always told my ballet students that because the art form is kept alive by each new generation of dancers, we must be as proficient in historical styles as we are in contemporary techniques. The important works of the past cannot be hung on museum walls the way the paintings of the masters are...
BWW Reviews: Pavel Zustiak/Palissimo Present ENDANGERED PIECES at Abrons Art Center
Throughout 'Endangered Pieces' there are episodic shifts between boyhood and manhood, mortality and immortality, and purpose and preoccupation, all of which seem to be existing in a shadow cast by an unknown, impending disaster....
New York's Top Talent Shines at Abrons Arts Center for Star-Studded UPTOWN DOWNTOWN Benefit
Juggling, dancing, comedy, singing, contact improvisation and more from some of New York City's top talent garnered great laughter and applause at UPTOWN DOWNTOWN, a one-night-only benefit for the Abrons Arts Center on Monday evening....
BWW Reviews: ARB's ROMEO AND JULIET is Majestic at The State Theatre
The American Repertory Ballet performed 'Romeo and Juliet' at The State Theatre in New Brunswick on Friday night accompanied by Rutgers University Orchestra....
BWW Reviews: Rioult Dance Explores the Relationship Between Dance and Music
Almost every choreographer attempts to address the relationship between the bedfellows of dance and music. The results of these examinations have had varying degrees of success. Bach Dances with Live Music was presented as a partnership between the two art forms by featuring Rioult Dance New York ...
BWW Reviews: Lar Lubovitch: 45th Anniversary Season at the Joyce
Lately, all my conversations about dance return to one question: who is making new, exciting, and unique contemporary dances. It's true, we've all been jaded by So You Think You Can Dance, as well as the abundance of contemporary modern companies with beautiful, but nonetheless, gooey movement. La...
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