From esteemed Japanese director Hiroshi Koike and his dance-theater troupe Pappa Tarahumara comes “Ship In A View”, an ethereal spectacle that made its Bay Area premiere at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on February 19th. Drawing on memories of his Japanese seaside home, Koike creates a haunting dream that ... Mostly Modernity Three contemporary choreographers take on Mozart in Boston The last three contemporary dance performances I saw in Boston featured scores by Mozart. One supposes that if the presenters (respectively, Celebrity Series of Boston, CRASHarts, and Boston Ballet) had consulted with each other, they might have offered a mini-Mozart ... Many choreographers are adept at placing bodies in space but few besides the late George Balanchine have moved them to music as does Mark Morris. Particularly in his 1988 tour de force L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato there is a marriage of movement to music that feels positively ... Visions of sugarplums beginning to clog up your head? The perfect antidote is Mark Morris’ The Hard Nut which is quickly becoming as much of a holiday tradition as department store Santas and Messiah singalongs. Created in 1991, televised for Dance in America a year later, it premiered in ... Martha Graham Dance Company Popejoy Hall The New Mexico Center for the Performing Arts, Albuquerque, New Mexico March 13, 2009 http://popejoypresents.com/ http://marthagraham.org/center/ http://clytemnestraproject.com/ It gets tricky keeping a dance company’s repertoire fresh when the one and only choreographer died over ten years ago. To that end, the Martha Graham ... "It’s like a truffle," I enthused to The Beautiful Companion at intermission of the Mark Morris Dance Group performance in Zellerbach Hall, "You bite into the truffle and you get the flavor and texture of the rich chocolate exterior, then the burst of the different, contrasting flavor and ... Over just a few decades, Mark Morris has choreographed over 100 works both for his own company, the Mark Morris Dance Group, and for other major companies such as the San Francisco Ballet and American Ballet Theater. In doing so, he has established himself as the most original, most intelligent, ... The Lyon Opera Ballet made it convenient for West Coast audiences to sample the works of three of the most prominent choreographers in Europe today, all of them women. Appearing on a Cal Performances engagement at Zellerbach Hall, in Berkeley, the “ballet” presented by the Lyon company was actually modern ... Perhaps it was the narrowness of the drab high school-like theater stage, that made the opening piece, “Jangle: Four Hungarian Dances”, appear a bit more like musical theater then it normally would. Or, maybe the peasant style costumes added to this appearance of watching a high-energy lyrical dance ala, “Fiddler ... If choreographers such as Christopher Wheeldon, Mark Morris and Twyla Tharp show us where dance may be going, the great Russians: Fokine, Massine, Balanchine, show us where it has been. But before any of them there was Marius Petipa. In 1869 Petipa was appointed ballet master to the St Petersburg ...
