River Runs Midwest St. Louis welcomes River North Chicago Dance Company Feb. 26–27. After three stops in Pennsylvania at the beginning of the month and RN’s annual Valentine’s Day weekend of performances in Chicago, this jazz-based contemporary dance company brings a mixed bill of works, including artistic director Frank Chaves’ Forbidden Boundaries, […]
As usual, I have no discipline when it comes to narrowing down my favorites to 10 best. There are way too many performances and people that I loved. Â On another note, the deaths of two giants, Merce Cunningham and Pina Bausch, cast a shadow over the whole year. But they also reminded us that […]
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 […]
Opposites Attract He’s a choreographer, she’s a famous actress. He’s “brown” and she’s “white.” He is of East Asian descent, she is French. Two radically different kinds of charisma meet and mesh in In-I, Akram Khan’s collaboration with movie star Juliette Binoche. “It’s about a relationship,” he said in these pages, “but it’s […]
Wade Robson, choreographer Michael’s movement was this amazing amalgamation of all his influences, filtered through this beast of a dancer. His lines were so dynamic. He understood the strength of simple movement delivered with incredible precision and energy. An invert of the legs and an extension of the arm were so much more powerful than […]
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 […]
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 […]
The bustling city of Beijing is full of movement. Arms of calligraphers sweep delicate brushstrokes on the sun-drenched slate at the Temple of Heaven. Legs of cyclists pump their pedals as they speed down busy streets returning from the market with heaps of green onions. Even the red and gold lanterns that appear everywhere—from storefronts […]
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