Twyla Tharp’s Come Fly With Me Alliance Theatre at the Woodruff. Atlanta, GA. September 15-October 11, 2009. Reviewed by Wendy Perron At her best, Tharp challenges extraordinary dancers to create extraordinary performances. This she has done in Come Fly With Me, her new “dansical” that could/should/might come to Broadway next season. She built the […]
Ride the Momentum Four of the Twin Cities’ experimental dance artists come together for two weekends at The Southern Theater’s series, Momentum: New Dance Works. The choreographers all reveal glimpses into human behavior in one way or another. Vanessa Voskuil’s en masse explores gestural movements; Sachiko Nishiuchi’s piece, The Apple Tree, offers a […]
American Ballet Theatre has a winner in James Kudelka’s Désir. This rhapsodic ballet has gorgeous partnering with soaring lifts and beautiful touches of affection. Every single pas de deux is both rapturous and inventive. The legs make aching arcs and the bodies and skirts follow. In the fourth section, Hee Seo (see her in “25 […]
After Diana Vishneva and Marcelo Gomes’ balcony scene from Macmillan’s Romeo and Juliet, I wanted to go home. Enough beauty for one night. I wanted to savor what I had seen: the illusion of a true love, where two bodies surrender to each other. Vishneva, who usually sucks all the attention into her, yielded to […]
BalletMet Columbus artistic director Gerard Charles will become the ballet master of the Joffrey Ballet in Chicago this July. Charles served as the head of BalletMet for over a decade and has been with the company for 26 years. He will continue to work with BalletMet in order to launch its 2012–13 season this August. […]
These picks are highly subjective and totally dependent on where I have travelled. TEN BEST IN CHOREOGRAPHY Most haunting, beautiful, and beguiling: Christopher Wheeldon’s In the Golden Hour, part of San Francisco Ballet’s New Works Festival Best new vision of global interchange: Bahok by Akram Khan with members of his company as […]
Each year Dance Magazine gives awards to leading members of the dance field. Each awardee chooses the person from whom they would like to receive the award. This year, on December 8 at New York’s Florence Gould Hall, Harvey Lichtenstein will present the award to Pina Bausch; Damian Woetzel will introduce Ethan Stiefel; Judith Jamison […]
I saw a completely different side of a few dancers at the gala last night at City Center. Gillian Murphy, who’s been a beautiful but sometimes steely superwoman—her double triple fouetees are scarily dependable—performed Juliet in Tudor’s Romeo and Juliet. She did bedroom scene (the farewell to Romeo) (which is a rather restrained version if […]
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