New York City Center Sept. 27–Oct. 13, 2012 Programs 1, 3 and 5 The annual Fall for Dance Festival offers astounding global variety inexpensively, and continues to be wildly popular in its ninth season. Several New York premieres in three evenings are reviewed here. The first program (seen on Sept. 27) featured Fang-Yi Sheu […]
The Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School Children’s Division has opened a second satellite branch. The prestigious school affiliated with American Ballet Theatre has partnered with Mason Gross School of the Arts Extension Division to offer dance classes for children ages 4 to 10, which will be held at the Douglass Campus of Rutgers University in New […]
Pairing companies with choreographers Michael Uthoff, artistic director of Dance St. Louis, is not only an innovative presenter—he’s a matchmaker, too. For performances this month at the Touhill Performing Arts Center and nearby universities, he has paired four St. Louis dance companies with four nationally known choreographers. In Dance St. Louis’ inaugural “New […]
A guide to the new season BodyCartography Project, coming to Walker Art Center in October. Photo by Gene Pittman, Courtesy WAC. This fall, a vibrant mix of voices will be “heard” onstage through movement, memorials, and mile-markers. From an array of world premieres hitting theaters across the U.S., to tantalizing festivals celebrating […]
Here in New York, dance critics are gearing up for that time known informally as “March Madness.” The next four weeks offer up an embarrassment of dance riches, from Paul Taylor’s annual three-week season (happening for the first time at the David H. Koch Theater), to Wendy Whelan’s guest appearance with Stephen Petronio at the […]
Joffrey’s Rocky Road Hosannas and hallelujahs for the new documentary on the Joffrey Ballet, that groundbreaking American experiment in ballet that relocated from NYC to Chicago in 1995. Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance, directed by Bob Hercules, features lively, sometimes emotional interviews with former dancers including Christian Holder, Gary Chryst, Trinette Singleton, […]
A resilient dancer with a calming focus, Rashaun Mitchell was called “the most riveting dancer” in the Merce Cunningham Dance Company by New York Times chief dance critic Alastair Macaulay. Mitchell grew up in Atlanta and started dancing at the Concord Academy in Massachusetts, where he studied with former Joffrey and Tharp dancer Richard Colton. […]
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has named the inaugural 21 Doris Duke Artists, each of whom will receive a multi-year cash grant of $225,000, plus up to $50,000 more for audience development and retirement funding. The selected artists were chosen in the fields of contemporary dance, theater, and jazz, via an anonymous peer review They […]
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