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        Runaway Love On the brink of a financial shutdown in July 2010, Ballet Nouveau Colorado, the little company that could, has much to celebrate as it kicks off its 10th-anniversary season on Sept. 16. With 13 dancers, BNC performs its cool, collaborative rep in Denver and neighboring Lakewood, CO. Artistic director […]

At the Finnish Line Both local and international companies make their debuts at the 42nd annual Kuopio Dance Festival in Finland. Performers range from the Korean Byuk-Pah Dance Research Society to the Belgian Compagnie Thor, from Finnish contemporary folk dance troupe Rimpparemmi to the American companies Ailey II and Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet. The weeklong […]

Dance Salad Festival Wortham Center, Cullen Theater Houston, TX April 21–23, 2011 Reviewed by Nancy Wozny Daisy Phillips in Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s Faun. Photo by Amitava Sarkar. Courtesy DSF.   What a study in contrasts Beijing Dance/LDTX brought to this year’s Dance Salad, which included 11 companies from 10 different countries. In excerpts from Sang […]

Dance Salad Festival Houston, TX April 21–23, 2011 Reviewed by Nancy Wozny What a study in contrasts Beijing Dance/LDTX brought to this year’s Dance Salad, which included 11 companies from 10 different countries. In excerpts from Sang Jijia’s Standing Before Darkness, an anxious tribe of chair-bound dancers skitter just above the surface of the floor, […]

        Whet Your Appetite Houston’s Wortham Center bursts with international talent at this year’s Dance Salad. Highlights include Ballet National de Marseille performing artistic director Frederic Flamand’s dreamy Metamorphoses. Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s company Eastman will dance his Faun, the choreographer’s version of Nijinsky’s exotic original. The Jasmin Vardimon Company, helmed by Vardimon—the […]

Next Wave Festival at BAM, Boston Ballet, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui     Next Wave Festival Brooklyn Academy of Music, NYC • September 29–November 10, 2010 • Reviewed by Gus Solomons jr   The audience at BAM’s Next Wave Festival welcomed Pina Bausch’s Vollmond (Full Moon) like a tribute to the late choreographer, whose Tanztheater Wuppertal […]

    Latino Fest Ballet Hispanico plans a smashing 40th anniversary season that stretches the geographical concept of “hispanico.” Spread out over three programs are world premieres by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa (from Spain) and Maray Gutierrez (from Cuba); revivals of works by choreographers no longer with us—Talley Beatty (African American) and Christopher Gillis (from Canada); […]

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 […]