Stephen Petronio Company Joyce Theater, NYC April 1–6, 2008 Reviewed by Eva Yaa Asantewaa The curtain rises on a backdrop lit in designer Ken Tabachnick’s hazy, Antarctic white. Almost imperceptibly, this frigid expanse becomes a serene sky-blue, and a dancer’s body is washed in the softest gold. So begins Stephen Petronio’s latest romp, Beauty and […]
Stephen Petronio brings a bracing season to New York City’s Joyce Theater, where he has performed almost every year for 24 years. His work is exciting to the subscription audience as well as to many dance artists. He delves into movement invention at the same time as creating complex postmodern forms. The new work, Hardness […]
NEW YORK CITY Stephen Petronio continues full steam ahead with his Bloodlines series, a tantalizing window into the rich past of postmodern dance. His season at The Joyce includes five short historical works: three by Judson Dance Theater co-founder Yvonne Rainer, an excerpt from Steve Paxton’s Goldberg Variations (1986) and a solo choreographed by dance […]
Keigwin + Company. Photo by Christopher Duggan. Each year, the US Department of State and the Brooklyn Academy of Music choose three American dance companies for its DanceMotion USA cultural diplomacy program. For 2017, the sixth year of the initiative, DanceMotion will send three New York City-based companies to foreign countries. Keigwin + Company will […]
Tonight the Stephen Petronio Company starts its Joyce Theater season, closing May 5. On the bill is the world premiere of Like Lazarus Did, an evening-length work exploring the concept of resurrection. But his true subject is always movement: slithery, twisty, awkward-elegant sequences that are hard to follow and hard to dance. This premiere […]
How does the director decide who to hire? Dancers learn a phrase from Petronio’s Underland at an audition for his company. Gino Grenek (in gray sweatshirt, at back) leads. Photo by Rachel Papo. Early on in a packed audition for his contemporary dance company, Stephen Petronio offered some advice: “Try not to […]
The men in Trisha Brown’s company never got to do Spanish Dance, that slowly advancing line of swaying hips and spooning bodies. So yesterday at my last talk on Trisha at DTW, six post-Trisha choreographers and I did Spanish Dance to “break the ice” before our talk. No one had access to the Dylan song, […]
Summer Reunion DancemOpolitan at Joe’s Pub June 14–15, 2007 Reviewed by Emily Macel Family reunions should always include superheros and dancing. In June, seven former members of Stephen Petronio’s company performed at the intimate caberet-style setting of Joe’s Pub—a fitting scene for the peculiar, lewd, and funny dancing that occurred that evening. Petronio […]
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