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BWW Reviews: Fall For Dance Final Evening
Fall for Dance at New York City Center wrapped up last weekend with a program featuring four companies, thrilling in their differences. Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui/Sadler's Wells London, BODYTRAFFIC, Les Ballet Trockadero De Monte Carlo, and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre shared the stage on October 5...
BWW Reviews: David Howard Tribute Celebrates the Life of the Great Master Ballet Teacher
On the evening of Sunday, October 13th 2013, an invitation-only crowd filed into Studio II at Steps on Broadway in NYC to share fond memories of David Howard, the beloved ballet teacher who once said that he arrived in New York 'as an upstart and became part of the American Dream.'...
BWW Reviews: Companies Compete for an Evening Length Production at DanceNow Festival at Joe's Pub
Thursday evening's DanceNow Festival at Joe's Pub, October 10th, 2013, was an evening teaming with glamour. Down-turned lights, delectable food, fine drinks, and all eyes glued to the small stage on which ten companies performed, separately, five minutes of uniquely prepared work. With the exception...
BWW Reviews: Urban Renewal
In this hour and a half long monologue by Kyle deCamp and Joshua Thorson, we get to experience the impact of political action and the impending negative effects it can have on a community and, more specifically, on a child: one child, in particular....
BWW Reviews: Career Transition for Dancers 28th Anniversary Jubilee, BROADWAY AND BEYOND
The 28th Anniversary Jubilee for Career Transitions for Dancers, 'Broadway and Beyond' was held at City Center on Tuesday. With impressive honorees and a star-studded stage show, the event was a resounding success....
BWW Reviews: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance and SITI Present A RITE as Part of BAM's Next Wave Festival
If the original Rite of Spring was a stone dropped into a calm and unsuspecting pool of water, then "A Rite" magnifies not only the ripples on the surface, but the speed and velocity with which the stone fell and the effect of its reverberations on bodies of water for a century....
BWW Reviews: The 2013 Bessies at the Apollo Theater Honor NYC Dance Artists
New York City's dance luminaries, rising stars, and fans were out in full force at the fabled Apollo Theater in Harlem on the evening of Monday, October 7th 2013 to attend the 29th annual Bessies Awards. The ceremony, named for contemporary dance legend Bessie Schonberg and produced in partnership w...
BWW Reviews: Passage a l'act/Acting Out
Passage a l'act/Acting Out is a wonderful show for art and dance fans alike. This dance performance did not use dance in the way one would expect, but instead went back to the basics of dance, using simple and basic movements as a form of expression and art....
BWW Reviews: Cloud Gate 2 is 'ON THE ROAD'
Cloud Gate 2, of Taiwan, performs at the Joyce Theater...
BWW Reviews: Da-On Dance Presents THIRST at Danspace Project
THIRST uses the structure of Dante's Inferno to examine the role of suffering in the human experience. Throughout the work Song-Begin, costumed in layers of black, performs an on-going solo. The audience accompanies Begin-Song, like Virgil accompanies Dante, into the various realms of the underworl...
BWW Reviews: Molissa Fenley and Company Presents World Premiere and Revivals
The Replay Series, presented by New York Live Arts, allows audience members the opportunity to engage with works that span the entire career of influential dance makers. As part of this series, Molissa Fenley and Company can be seen at New York Live Arts October 2-5, performing a world premiere alon...
BWW Reviews: Pentacle's FALL FURTHER II at Citigroup Theater
As I sat in the half filled house at the Citigroup Theater to watch Pentacle's Fall Further II, I could not help buzzing with excitement from the success of last year's show, and Pentacle's reputation at hosting such exciting and diverse performances. Unfortunately, I started to feel my excitement w...
BWW Reviews: Fall for Dance 2013 Opens at City Center
Every year, New York City Center offers performances by several dance companies, local and international, performing on this stage in the same evening, for affordable ticket prices. All tickets, this year, are $15.00. This is a two week Festival....
BWW Reviews: THREE IF BY AIR Takes Over MMAC
With all the shows one can see in NYC, it's refreshing to see a small theater production that exudes such talent and passion. Three if by Air, performed by the General Mischief Dance Theater at the Manhattan Movement and Arts Center, is a warm and charming presentation by local actors and acrobatic...
BWW Reviews: TAKE DANCE Delights Fans with World Premieres at Symphony Space
Long celebrated for his unique brand of contemporary choreography that combines powerful athleticism with profound emotional sensitivity, Takehiro (Take) Ueyama did not disappoint his opening night audience on Friday, September 27th at Peter Norton Symphony Space, Broadway at 95th Street. The progra...
BWW Reviews: Bourne's SLEEPING BEAUTY Delights
Ballet is not a dance style often featured on a Broadway stage, but Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty may change that. His production of Sleeping Beauty is as imaginative, expansive, and stunning as the best productions offered on Broadway. In its' North American premiere at the Des Moines Civic Cent...
BWW Reviews: New York City Ballet Black and White Program
NYC Ballet's Black and White program offers rich rewards for dedicated dancegoers. The company is in great form, so much so that it's too much for the eye to take in....
BWW Dance Reviews: THE START OF SOMETHING BIG at The Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company
The Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company opens its season with The Start of Something Big....
BWW Reviews: John J. Zullo Dance - Raw Movement, Innovative and Imaginative
John J. Zullo Dance/Raw Movement had its 2013 Season performance at Danspace Project in the St. Marks Church from September 19th to the 21st. The three pieces presented in the program fascinated their audience....
BWW Reviews: The METAMORPHOSIS
I wanted to read Kafka's Metamorphosis before attending the Royal Ballet's production bearing the same name. But my own Kafkesque world intervened, so I never had the chance to follow Gregor and his transformation from human being to bug. I can only judge the production on its own merits, and not co...
BWW Reviews: Houston Ballet's THE MERRY WIDOW is Opulently Romantic
As a ballet, THE MERRY WIDOW is an adaptation of Franz Lehar's popular romantic operetta Die Lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow), which premiered in 1905. In the process of adapting the score for ballet, John Lanchbery and Alan Abott retained the style of Franz Lehar's orchestrations and included severa...
BWW Reviews: Roberto Bolle And Friends Gala
That Roberto Bolle is the body beautiful, not to mention gorgeous, extraordinaire, beyond belief, is not to be questioned. If he took just one step to the right, you might call it exploitation or something closely resembling that. Mr. Bolle, wisely, did not take that slippery path. He remained an am...
BWW Reviews: Ballet Austin Presents Gorgeous, Charming MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
Any theater-goer must have some passing familiarity with William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, arguably the screwball comedy in which fairies use a magical flower to make two sets of humans fall in love with each other. No such flower is needed here to elicit the audience's love and affe...
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