Small- to medium-sized companies based in cities outside dance meccas—New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles—are often written off as “regional,” or somehow lesser than their big city counterparts. But in recent decades, a few have defied such categorization as they’ve gained traction on the national and international scene. So how does a company build an […]
Densely dimensional, unpredictable, strangely graceful and wild, Alice Klock’s dances are like elegant ribbons caught in hopelessly tangled knots. In 2018, she’ll choreograph more works than she did the year before, extending a trajectory that’s continued throughout her still-brief career. While her early premieres were in-house affairs at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, where she also […]
Late one Friday night, Daniil Simkin and Cassandra Trenary are running a new duet inside the Frank Lloyd Wright–designed rotunda in New York City’s Guggenheim Museum. Trenary drops her weight back into Simkin’s arms and lets him slide her, spinning, into the ground. They clasp hands like children to pull each other close, an intimate […]
San Francisco is crawling with unexpected dance events over the next month. Here are seven on our radar. The Right to be Believed Jo Kreiter’s gravity-defying, site-specific dance work taking place on UC Hastings College of the Law’s Outdoor Wall probes the credibility of women in society through Flyaway Productions’ signature cocktail of social justice […]
When the Leonore Annenberg Fellowship Fund for the Performing and Visual Arts announced their tenth and final round of $50,000 fellowships for performing and visual artists last week, it wasn’t exactly a surprise to see Cassandra Trenary’s name on the list. The American Ballet Theatre soloist sparkles onstage in classical rep (particularly in works by […]
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in Becket, Massachusetts is always in flux. Here are some of the new things that greeted me during my visit on July 16. Moving Still. A stunning exhibit of Lois Greenfield’s latest photos (based on her book of the same title) dazzles the eye in Blake’s Barn until August 28. Director […]
The dance artists to keep an eye on in 2017
Hubbard Street resident choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo. PC Todd Rosenberg, Courtesy Hubbard Street. Dance organizations throughout the country are working to build better laboratories for tomorrow’s dancemakers. Tommie-Waheed Evans was having a fairly typical Thursday. Having recently earned his master’s degree in choreography, he was preparing to teach two dance classes and a senior seminar at The University […]
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