Modern Meets Ballet in SLC In a rare example of genres crossing, Ballet West artistic director Adam Sklute has invited his local counterpart in modern dance, Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company artistic director Charlotte Boye Christensen, to make a piece on his company. The commission shares the Innovations program with premieres by 2007 “25 to Watch” choreographer […]
Dance Salad was as zesty as ever last night, though it got off to a rough start. The highlights were Ballet du Grand Theatre de Geneve in excerpts from Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s Loin. Prince Credell, who was one of our early “On the Rises,” was silky and gorgeous in a solo, and the last section […]
Koresh Goes Gaga Koresh Dance Company performs its first Ohad Naharin work, Passomezzo (1989), this month as part of its home season in Philadelphia. Set primarily to the familiar strains of “Greensleeves,” the duet shifts between highly physical partnerwork (the male dancer spins the female slowly with his foot; she pins him to the ground, […]
ODC/Dance Yerba Buena Center • San Francisco • March 12–28, 2010 • Reviewed by Rita Felciano With Waving Not Drowning (A Guide to Elegance), choreographer Brenda Way offered audiences dainty needle pricks, while KT Nelson’s Labor of Love cut to the bone. For ODC’s spring season, the two premieres joined repertory works by the co-artistic […]
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 […]
Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet Ted Shawn Theatre Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Becket, MA July 8–12, 2009 Reviewed by Tresca Weinstein Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s Orbo Novo. Photo by Karli Cadel, Courtesy Jacob’s Pillow. What does an electrical impulse look like? Or a synapse, as it forms a path through brain tissue? How would emotion and […]
Sixteen dancers in a tight formation push a 12-foot tall-metal gate-like structure forward. They begin to claw and climb and crawl through the small square holes, manipulating bodies and contorting into angles that allow an arm to escape before a head, a leg to carry the shoulder through. This kind of malleable, near liquidity […]
Dance Salad Wortham Center, Cullen Theater Houston, TX April 10–12, 2009 Reviewed by Wendy Perron A ravishing duet: Carolyn Carlson’s Signes: L’Esprit du blue, with Marie-Agnès Gillot and Kader Belarbi. Photo by Amitava Sarkar. More of a feast than a salad, this annual festival packs in companies from Europe that we rarely see […]
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