Bill T. Jones/ Ernie Zane Dance Company and SITI Company
Anne Bogart, director
Joanna G. Harris
Since the premiere of “The Rite of Spring” on May 29, 1913, both music and dance concerts have celebrated the unique nature of Stravinsky’s work. What is less celebrated, except for the riot it produced, is Nijinsky’s choreography for "Le ...
Joanna G. HarrisSan Francisco,
“There’s a crack in everything, that’s how that the light gets in.”
In her September 2013 article for In Dance, choreographer Erin Mei-Ling Stuart quotes the Leonard Cohen lyric. She suggests this line motivates her “to try to slip in ...
“American Dreamer,” “Fibers,” “Profiles” and “Gossamer Gallants”
Lewis WhittingtonPhiladelphia,
At 83, choreographer Paul Taylor continues to be legendary in his own time, his company perpetually youthful, even when (as in the case of “American Dreamer,”) the dance is sketchy. He is a longtime favorite at Dance Celebration in Philadelphia, ...
Michael Wade SimpsonSanta Fe,
In addition to raising funds, booking engagements, mothering dancers and generally running a ballet company, another of the important hats worn by Jean-Philippe Malaty and Tom Mossbrucker, the duo who run the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet wear, is that of ...
Alyssa Schoeneman
'Audible'
Performed by 605 CollectiveMusic samples from Daedelus, Tehn (Brian Crabtree), Portable Sunsets, aMute, Poirier and Mulatu Astatke At the American Dance Festival Reynolds Industries Theatre, Durham, NCJune 16, 2013
In Vancouver, British Columbia, circa 2006, three artists ...
Suzanne WeissSan Francisco,
With nary a sacrificial virgin or dinosaur in sight, Mark Morris has joined the legions of celebrants wishing a happy 100th birthday to Igor Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” with a jaunty, exciting interpretation that may make you forget everything that ...
Suzanne Weiss
‘Rodin’
Eifman Ballet of St. PetersburgChoreography by Boris EifmanMusic by various composersCal Performances, BerkeleyMay 10-12, 2013
Nobody ever could accuse Russian choreographer Boris Eifman of subtlety. Nobody seeing his latest full-length saga, “Rodin,” could accuse him ...
Suzanne WeissSan Francisco,
Spoiler alert: she gets the prince. But you probably know that already. Nevertheless, there is so much that you didn’t know about the new Craig Lucas/Christopher Wheeldon take on everybody’s favorite fairy tale— the one about the unloved child who ...
Suzanne Weiss
‘Onegin’
Ballet after Alexander Pushkin’s poemChoreography by John CrankoMusic by Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky, arranged by Kurt-Heinz StolzeDesigned by Santo LoquastoSan Francisco BalletMarch 21-March 28, 2013
The course of true love never did run smooth and, in ...
