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 […]
Tap City 2010: The Main Event Peter Jay Sharp Theatre Symphony Space, NYC July 9, 2010 Reviewed by Eva Yaa Asantewaa Guillem Alonso. Photo by Debi Field. When young Cartier Williams, Tap City’s opener, mounted the stage, everything—from the driving music to the backdrop’s glowing, traffic-sign green—shouted “Go!” And he went, messing with […]
Tap City 2010: The Main Event Peter Jay Sharp Theatre Symphony Space, NYC July 9, 2010 Reviewed by Eva Yaa Asantewaa When young Cartier Williams, Tap City’s opener, mounted the stage, everything—from the driving music to the backdrop’s glowing, traffic-sign green—shouted “Go!” And he went, messing with rhythms in a fit of joy reminiscent of […]
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 […]
From when to write a post-audition thank-you note to whether to wear sunglasses in class, learning the ins and outs of dancing in a new environment can be daunting. How do you get a job in NYC? What are the hottest dance studios in L.A.? Here are some tips every dancer should know in order […]
I’m late in coming to this party, but I just saw Stomp at the Orpheum Theatre and loved it. It is not only a seamless merging of dance, percussion, and physical comedy; it is also a celebration of play. The instinct to play, the teamwork of play, the exuberance of play, the ingenuity of play. […]
It takes a certain kind of person to be a plate spinner. You know, one of those people who starts spinning one plate on a tall pole, then a second and a third before coming back to the first to make sure it’s still going while spinning a fifth and a sixth. It requires an […]
Tap dancers don’t even stop dancing when they accept their awards. That was evident on Tuesday night at Symphony Space when Tony Waag and Constance Valis Hill presented a Hoofer award to Tina Pratt. She just kept floating around the stage, tapping in her easy gentle style, even when she said her Thank Yous. She […]
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