Festival Flamenco Internacional de Alburquerque

Albuquerque, NM
June 6-15, 2008


The cantaor wails "Ah fortuna!" The guitarista's eyes track the baile's (dancer's) feet, anticipating the precise rhythm…

Venice Biennale

Venice, Italy
June 14-29, 2008

    
Ah, Venice—one of the world’s most gorgeous cities…

Moving People Dance Santa Fe

Lensic Performing Arts Center
May 24-June 28, 2008CLICK HERE to watch a video clip from MPD's performance! Shaken down to the DNA, that's the effect of Moving People Dance Santa Fe (MPD)'s contemporary works during the Fourth Annual Festival Santa Fe Dance Festival, particularly Curtis Uhlemann's premier, DANCE PIECE #14 in GREEN.
    The dancers streamed so swiftly to the Kronos Quartet's music that they blurred in their green-swirl unitards…

Savion Glover

B.B. King Blues Club, NYC
July 31, 2008

There’s a Capezio ad from the 1980s with Savion Glover leaping into the air, a huge grin on his face…

Kibbutz Dance Company and Tami Dance Company/Nimrod Freed

Central Park SummerStage
July 26th, 2008


The summer air is sweet and the greenery of Central Park welcoming as SummerStage celebrates Israel’s 60th anniversary with a free outdoor performance by two Israeli companies.
    In Tami Dance Company’s , choreographer Nimrod Freed asks the audience to view the performers through peepholes in seven separate cubicles…

Montpellier Dance Festival

Montepellier, France
June 22–July 5, 2008


On the anniversary of his 25th year as director of Montpellier Danse, Jean-Paul Montanari reminded crowds that above all, he seeks to defend creativity…

Chicago Dance Crash

Theatre Building Chicago
Chicago, IL
July 25, 2008

Dance Crash bills itself as an innovative, multi-media company that draws on a synthesis of hip-hop, modern dance, ballet and athleticism to produce cutting edge productions. , which premiered in Chicago on July 25th as an extrapolation of the Goethe epic, dishes up a modern-day morality tale that suffers from an overly confident reliance on facial mugging and ominous music to do the storytelling work we expect from the choreography in narrative ballets.
    If is any indication of what innovative means to these folks, they simply haven’t done their homework…

Latin Choreographers Festival

Teatro IATI (International Theater Arts Institute, New York)
July 24–27, 2008Fresh breezes cooled the small East Village theater opening night…

Ensemble Espagñol

North Shore Center for the Performing Arts, Skokie, IL
June 27, 2008


Drama simmers beneath the exterior of five silhouetted dancers…

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