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Dance is supposed to keep one young—but centenarians are still comparatively rare in the business, with even the unsinkable Martha Graham making it only to 97. In fact, the only truly celebrated dance centenarian I can think of off-hand is the founder of Britain’s Royal Ballet, Ninette de Valois, who died about five years ago […]

Once, the novelty of receiving a resume package that included a video was enough to help any dancer stand out above the rest. These days, dance companies routinely use audition videos to pre-screen talent, so it pays to create a video that has impact. “I tend to make up my mind pretty fast,” says Anthony […]

Astaire & Rogers Collection Volume 2 DVD; set $59.92; each $19.97. “The new fast-stepping dancing pair!” announces the trailer for Flying Down to Rio before showing a snippet of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers doing the Carioca in a glamorous nightclub. It was 1933, and Flying Down to Rio was only the second film that […]

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, […]

Dawn Fay Ballet Memphis doesn’t rank its dancers in the typical hierarchical sense. However, if there were a scale, Dawn Fay would undoubtedly land on top as the company’s prima. Watching Fay dance is a bit like listening to Melissa Etheridge sing rock or Diana Krall jazz: She is soulful, insightful, a powerhouse of strength. […]

Meredith Monk BAM Harvey Theater, Brooklyn, NY November 1-5, 2006 Reviewed by Lisa Rinehart Meredith Monk and Ellen Fisher in Monk’s impermanence Photo by Stephanie Berger, courtesy BAM Meredith Monk’s impermanence is a multilayered jewel box filled with tender explorations of the ordinary made extraordinary. It’s the kind of creation only an artist of Monk’s […]

I have been living and working in New York’s downtown dance world for more than 25 years, but it’s only recently that I’ve been confronted with the sight of so many of my peers naked. I’m not crashing dressing rooms after concerts or lurking in the showers at dance or yoga studios. No, I’m talking […]

Garth Fagan Dance Joyce Theater, NYC October 17-22, 2006 Reviewed by Eva Yaa Asantewaa Garth Fagan Dance in Senku Photo by Steven Schreiber, courtesy Garth Fagan Dance   In 1970 choreographer Garth Fagan founded a group in Rochester, New York, that (as old-timers will recall) once bore a self-deprecating name. That ironic moniker is long […]