Michael Wade SimpsonNew York,
French choreographer/artist Xavier LeRoy has staged his “Retrospective” in Singapore, Paris, Barcelona, Rio de Janeiro and Hamburg before arriving at PS1 MoMA in Long Island City for a two-month run ...
David E. MorenoSan Francisco,
Mago
In Three Parts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb6K9ZUMQAA
Mago: as work in progress
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl7X932-o2k
“I had a dream.
There was a woman who ...
David E. MorenoSan Francisco,
The pre-curtain audience at the Yerba Buena Center For The Arts was especially boisterous Thursday evening. This was in part because the legendary Israeli dance company, Batsheva, had returned to San Francisco for its fourth season, and because this performance ...
Continuing its West Coast tour, the Australian Ballet brings this retooled classic to Berkeley, with choreography that is pleasing if not spectacular.
Suzanne WeissSan Francisco,
Who says you can’t teach an old bird new tricks? Certainly not choreographer Graeme Murphy, who has taken the venerable “Swan Lake” and stood it on its head. The result is a gorgeous, sophisticated dance-fable that will satisfy all but ...
Modernists should find much to enjoy in this updated variation of the oft-performed classic.
Karen WeinsteinLos Angeles,
Maybe you are one of those folks who looked at the advertisements for the Australian Ballet's "Swan Lake" and said, "I don't need to see another 'Swan Lake' by a company I've never even heard of ... why I've even ...
An exciting new partnership with Aspen Santa Fe Ballet
Michael Wade SimpsonSanta Fe,
Juan Siddi Flamenco won a kind of unofficial genius grant this year. After six years dancing six nights a week at a Santa Fe tablao during high season, he and his company were acquired, basically, by Aspen Santa Fe Ballet. ...
Despite flashes of good dancing, these works lacked the technical achievement needed to make them come truly to life.
Joanna G. HarrisCA,
“Carmen” was first produced in London in 1949 and then premiered in San Jose on May 3, 2002. It is Luigi Bonino's revival of Roland Petit's one-act retelling of the opera as ballet. The "end of season" show May 11 ...
Lewis WhittingtonPA,
Philadanco played to sold-out houses in the Perelman Theater in Philly for their spring concert series in the Easter weekend. Danco is coming off a high profile year with the premiere at the Apollo Theater of Get on the Good ...
Though performed with devotion and vitality, this collaboration between Mark Morris and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra is not entirely well integrated.
Joanna G. HarrisCA,
In her time, Isadora Duncan choreographed opera, among them Gluck’s “Orpheus and Eurydice.” There is lovely pastoral dance in that work; Mark Morris has evoked her spirit and style in Handel’s “Acis and Galatea.” Noted as a "world premiere," this ...
Lewis WhittingtonPA,
New on the map in Philly is LA dance troupe Bodytraffic, winning over Dance Celebration audiences with a wide sampling of styles. Artistic directors Lillian Rose Barbieto and Tina Frankelman Berkett (who also danced in the ...
