Dance Alloy Theater’s Fragile The New Hazlett Theater, Pittsburgh, PA April 13-16, 2007 Reviewed by Steve Sucato Pictured: Dance Alloy Theater Photographer: Frank Walsh Courtesy: Dance Alloy Theater Pittsburgh’s Dance Alloy Theater has presented a number of memorable dance works in its 31-year history. Perhaps none has been more powerful and moving as Donald Byrd’s […]
What color is her parachute? Bahiyah Sayyed Gaines makes her Broadway debut in Purple. Bahiyah Sayyed Gaines uses a single sentence to explain her decision to walk away from life as a principal in the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: “I had a baby,” she says. Late last fall, sitting in an empty […]
Hawaiian festivals, Aix gets axed, Rainer does Stravinsky, Dance Place’s 25th The Hawaiian Scene: Grass Skirts and Dancing Geckos Hawaii may be a vacation paradise, but the state is rapidly gaining a reputation for its cultural offerings, too. Among a wide range of dance attractions, hula is still the predominant style, with hundreds […]
Koresh Dance Company The Wilma Theater, Philadelphia, PA November 10, 2006 Reviewed by Lewis Whittingtonr Michael Velez (center) and Jessica Daley (right) in “Hound Dog” from Ronen Koresh’s Looking Back: The Music of the ’40s and ’50s Photo by Gabriel Bienczycki, courtesy Koresh Dance Company For his first full-evening program at the Wilma Theater, artistic […]
Spectrum Dance Theater The Moore Theatre, Seattle, WA October 6-7, 2006 Reviewed by Gigi Berardi David Alewine, Tanya Wideman-Davis, Allison Keppel, and Peter deGrasse in Petruchska Photo by Chris Bennion, courtesy Spectrum Dance Theater Artistic director Donald Byrd’s Petruchska offers a story of violence thriving in society and operating on different scales. In this retelling, […]
Washington Ballet England Studio Theatre, Washington Ballet Building Washington, D.C. April 28–May 16, 2004 Reviewed by George Jackson The bodies nearby demanded attention as the audience was being seated. One woman’s was upright and tense as she worked more pliancy into one of her pointe shoes. Two others kneaded leg muscles and stretched their spines. […]
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Cal Performances celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. Connors, who started the job in 1945, recalls the early, pre-Misha era. “It was very hard to get companies to come out. There were so few performing opportunities on the West Coast. And they didn’t fly in those days,” she says. In earlier decades, Berkeley […]
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