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BWW Reviews: The Table of Silence Project 9/11 Commemorates the September 11th Terrorist Attacks
It is the instinctual reaction of an artist to create art from destruction. The Table of Silence Project 9/11 was conceived by Jacqulyn Buglisi and Rossella Vasta as a “public tribute and ritual for peace”—a reaction to the September 11th terrorist attacks and the world that day created....
BWW Reviews: Miro Magloire's New Chamber Ballet Brings Contemporary Music and More to City Center Studio
Miro Magloire's New Chamber Ballet opened its 2013-14 season on September 6 & 7 with performances at City Center Studios in New York. It's a simple setting with no lighting, which adds to direct connection it has with the audience....
BWW Reviews: Houston Ballet's FOUR PREMIERES is a Celebration of Choreography
The Houston Ballet is notorious for providing audiences with top-notch productions and a supremely talented company. Launching into their 2013-2014 season, Houston Ballet opens with FOUR PREMIERES. Consisting of one American premiere and three world premieres, FOUR PREMIERES is a wonderful evening o...
SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE Final Four Recap WITH PHOTOS: Best Show of the Year
I have been pretty vocal with my feeling that the entertainment value of this season of SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE has been lacking a bit. However, while there still hasn't been a singular defining moment this season, as the numbers dwindled, the entertainment skyrocketed. Tonight was the most enjoy...
BWW Reviews: TAP 'N TIME - NJ Tap Fest's Extraordinary Main Stage Event
Tap dancing is an art that has endured through the enthusiasm and creativity of its performers. New Jersey Tap Fest's main stage event, 'Tap 'N Time,' was performed at the Westminster Arts Center at Bloomfield College on Saturday night. The two act show delighted the audience with a wide variety of ...
BWW Reviews: STOMP '13 Gets Feet Tapping and Hands Clapping
This performance will have you smiling, laughing, foot tapping, clapping, and going home talking about it for ages after....
BWW Reviews: A LULLABY TO MR. ADAM Activates Imaginations at MMAC
On August 18th, the basement of the Manhattan Movement and Arts Center in Manhattan not only held a beautiful, intimate theater, but a space completely filled by passion from the dancers and creativity from their choreographer's vision....
BWW Reviews: Peridance Capezio Center's Faculty Showcase
A diverse evening of dance, with pieces ranging from contemporary to classic jazz to hip hop, presented by Peridance Center's faculty, entertained an eager audience on Saturday evening, informing them of New York's vibrant and diverse dance scene....
BWW Reviews: Eva Dean Underwhelms with PETER PAN AND THE STARDUST DANCES
BWW Reviews New York International Fringe Festival's Peter Pan and the Stardust Dances, a tale of Peter Pan, Esmerelda, and floating lanterns told in five acts....
BWW Reviews: Groundworks Dance at Cain Park and Fall Dance Previews
Dance has long been perceived as an art entertainment for the wealthy, educated and performance trained. Terms such as 'fifth position,' 'adagio,' 'camber,' 'shag,' and 'pirouette' are foreign to most people. Dance styles such as hip hop, Tango, jazz, Samba, and Broadway may be terms that have been ...
BWW Reviews: Cleveland Orchestra Superb, Joffrey Ballet Disappoints
What happens when The Cleveland Orchestra, considered to be one of the world's great ensemble of musical performers, couples with the Joffrey Ballet, hailed as 'America's Ballet Company of Firsts?' After their well-received five sold-out performance of THE NUTCRACER last winter at PlayhouseSquare, a...
BWW Reviews: Les Ballets Jazz De Montreal Celebrates Brooklyn
Celebrate Brooklyn! Performing Arts Festival is held at the Bandshell is Prospect Park, with live performances featuring artists from all over the world. For their dance portion last week, BRIC presented three works from Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal....
BWW Reviews: Melinda Sullivan's GONE
Sullivan shined in this story of love, loss, and letting go. Gone was a storybook told through dance; a Broadway performance without words. With smooth transitions between scenes, I was seamlessly pulled into Sullivan's world of a home that was simultaneously living out the past and looking toward t...
BWW Reviews: From the Television Archives- John Cranko's THE LADY AND THE FOOL and PINEAPPLE POLL
On a rainy August day I curled up on the couch with BBC's recently released and re-mastered television broadcast of John Cranko's The Lady and the Fool and Pineapple Poll. Accustomed to contemporary ballet sensibilities, I was a bit skeptical of the black and white recording of these two 1959 perfo...
BWW Reviews: At Zombie Joe's They're DANCING ON THE EDGE
No matter what kind of a production ZJU Theatre Group is working on you can bet they'll throw themselves into it with everything they've got. Their latest, a dance performance piece called DANCING ON THE EDGE, is no exception. Staying true to their overall aesthetic of raw, creative, smartly crafted...
BWW Reviews: BALANCHINE AND THE LOST MUSE: REVOLUTION AND THE MAKING OF A CHOREOGRAPHER by ELIZABETH KENDALL
George Balanchine (1904-1983) is considered the greatest choreographer of the 20th century, his transforming genius in dance often compared to that of Mozart and Stravinsky in music and Picasso and Cezanne in art. Born Georgi Balanchivadze in Czarist Russia, he fled the country of his birth for the...
BWW Reviews: Verb Ballets Presents Uneven Evening of Dance
Verb Ballets' SUMMER SERIES was, with the exception of the opening number, a pleasant, if not compelling evening of dance....
BWW Reviews: THE MUSIC MAN Brings Fun to Cottonwood Heights
As with any show with a large cast, it can be difficult for a choreographer to know what to do with all those bodies. And Cottonwood Heights production of MEREDITH WILLSON'S THE MUSIC MAN is no exception. Working with a cast of at least 75 that included small children, Choreographer Teresa Draper ...
BWW Reviews: Alvin Ailey DANCE WORKS UNHINGED
When benevolence, fine artistry and pure movement conjoin, you get Dance Works Unhinged, a benefit concert choreographed and performed by members of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. On Sunday July 20, 2013, the Ailey Citigroup Theater presented an evening of original works for a good cause: ...
BWW Reviews: Live Arts Presents MADCO Performs MILLS/Works
Traveling from St. Louis, Modern American Dance Company, or MADCO, performed three works by former company member turned choreographer, Joseph Mills, that blended theatre, dance, and sculpture, creating a diverse and entertaining evening....
BWW Reviews: ChEckiT! Dance - CHECK US OUT Dance Festival 2013
CheckiT Dance presented its third annual Check Us Out Dance Festival: A Celebration of Female Choreographers, on Saturday, July 13, 2013 at Summit Rock in Central Park. The evening included works from more than 10 female choreographers from the United States and abroad. CheckiT Dance is an all femal...
BWW Reviews: American Tap Dance Foundation's TAP INTERNATIONALS: GLOBAL RHYTHMS
The American Tap Dance Foundation (ATDF) is an acclaimed non-profit organization “committed to establishing and legitimizing Tap Dance as a vital component of American Dance through creation, presentation, education, and preservation. Charles “Honi” Coles, Brenda Bufalino, and Tony Waag found...
BWW Reviews: From the Television Archives - Frederick Ashton's LA FILLE MAL GARDEE
La Fille Mal Gardee is one of the oldest works of modern ballet, originally choreographed by Jean Dauberval in 1789 for the Grand Theatre de Bordeaux. Dauberval found inspiration for the piece in Pierre-Antoine Baudouin's painting of an older lady reprimanding a younger girl in a hay barn, while he...
BWW Reviews: TAP IT OUT Electrifies Times Square
On Saturday, July 13th, the sound of 300 unified tapping feet escalated through the air in the heart of New York City at this year's TAP CITY event, TAP IT OUT. As a dancer with knowledge in the art of tap, the idea of hundreds of individuals coming together to perform outside in the core of one of ...
BWW Reviews: The American Tap Dance Foundation's TAP IT OUT
The American Tap Dance Foundation's Tap it Out hoofers closed out Tap Week in NYC on July 13, 2013 outdoors in Times Square...
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