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Vital Signs

      Ease on Down the Road Dallas Black Dance Theatre teams up with the Dallas Theater Center for a month-long run of the rock ‘n’ roll-meets-soul The Wiz, with choreography by Christopher L. Huggins. DBDT revisits Geoffrey Holder’s landmark 1975 musical, which won seven Tony Awards. This foray into musical theater is a […]

Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet

Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet // Hofesh Shechter’s The Fools // The Joyce Theater, NYC // November 2–7, 2010 // Reviewed by Susan Yung Men of Cedar Lake in Shechter’s The Fools. Photo by Julieta Cervantes, Courtesy Cedar Lake.   Cedar Lake’s dancers may be extremely skilled in classical techniques, yet they have enough dramatic range […]

Reviews

Biennale de la Danse de Lyon Lyon, France • September 9–October 3, 2010 Reviewed by Wendy Perron   Where else does a dance festival overtake an entire city? With 40 companies spread out over 34 venues (plus three outdoor sites), this year’s Biennale de la Danse was the main event in the second- largest city […]

Dance Matters

The Man Behind the Curtain Sadler’s Wells trailblazer Alistair Spalding   His manner might resemble that of an amiable accountant, but don’t let the deceptively low-key image fool you. As chief executive and artistic director of Sadler’s Wells, Alistair Spalding has turned this London venue into the UK’s leading dance presenter while simultaneously fashioning himself […]

Reviews

    Hofesh Shechter Company White Bird Series • Portland, OR • October 21, 2009 • Reviewed by Heather Wisner   Group dynamics took center stage when this London-based contemporary company made its Portland debut—just one of two U.S. stops before heading on to Canada and Australia.   The two-piece program opened with a jolt […]

A Stirring Fall

Why cry about the economy? It won’t help, and a succession of dirges makes for wretched choreography, anyway. America’s dance companies and presenters aren’t mourning. They’re making the best of it. They’ll trim and adjust a bit this season. But they know that, for every cutback or compromise, the dance world can still put warm […]

Comings & Goings

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. […]

Best of 2008

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 […]