The 20th century could—at least in the Western world—be called the Century of the Woman. It was a century of emancipation and universal suffrage, women’s rights, feminism, and, at least on paper, equal opportunity, if not equal wages. But despite any glass ceiling, it was a century of enormous progress for women. This progress was […]
Skimpy rehearsal periods, wretched studios, lousy music tapes, dancer injuries. You think choreographers have problems now? Ha! Those traditional vexations pale in comparison to the challenge of confronting the ego of a genuine opera diva. Yet dancemakers are taking the plunge and besieging the world’s opera stages. In some of the most prestigious opera houses, […]
Blondell Cummings gets comfortable in Just a Coupla Boomers Sitting Around Chillin. Photo by Tom Brazil Talking Dance The Kitchen New York, New York January 3?February 1, 2001 Reviewed by Wendy Perron Wacky hostessing is all the rage downtown, and The Kitchen’s Talking Dance series lucked out with Lucy Sexton and Anne Iobst, known as […]
Hugo Suarez uses body parts as if it were a whole man in Short Stories. Photo courtesy Hugo & Ines Henson International Festival of Puppet Theater Handshadows by Prasanna Rao Short Stories by Teatro Hugo & Ines The Public Theater New York, New York September 13?18, 2000 Reviewed by Wendy Perron Dancers know that each […]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has been seriously getting into dance lately. But now it’s taking its love affair one step further: Gallim Dance director/choreographer Andrea Miller was just named the museum’s artist in residence for the 2017-18 season—the first dance artist ever chosen for that distinction! We caught up with Miller to find out […]
Today we’re all taking a field trip to Paris to visit the Icons Of Modern Art: The Shchukin Collection exhibit at the Foundation Louis Vuitton. Lil Buck will be your tour guide. First you’ll float down a hallway and up an escalator before admiring some paintings by Matisse. Later you’ll pause near a Picasso to watch a solo by the […]
Ribbon cutting ceremonies are generally pretty ho-hum affairs. But The Met Breuer decided to spice things up today. The new building of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, dedicated to 20th- and 21st-century art (in a bid to expand the institution’s underdeveloped contemporary and modern offerings), is opening to the public today by offering performances […]
If you’re craving some science and dance and you’re in NYC between now and Friday , why not head to the American Museum of Natural History? There, in the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life—perhaps most famous for the 94-foot, 21,000-pound model of a blue whale suspended from the ceiling—30 performers from Armitage! Gone Dance […]
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