Min Tanaka Dreaming Trees?Flying in Nexus P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center Long Island City, New York July 7?16, 2000 Reviewed by Wendy Perron As hundreds of people were ushered onto the rooftop of P.S. 1 in Queens, the glaring sun beat down on still bodies lying in and around the gravel that covered the surface. […]
Savage Jazz Company Cowell Theater, Fort Mason San Francisco, California July 7?9, 2000 Reviewed by K.C. Patrick There?s nothing primitive about Savage Jazz Dance Company. In fact, it may be the most layered, sophisticated concert jazz dance company in these Western climes. Formed in 1992 by Artistic Director Reginald Ray-Savage, who is its principal choreographer […]
Séan Curran Photo by Josef Astor Summerstage 2000 Sinha Dance and Sean Curran Company Culture Splash, Central Park New York, New York July 7, 2000 Reviewed by Gus Solomons jr The production quality of free summertime performances in New York keeps improving. Summerstage?armed with a bevy of corporate underwriters?now boasts a huge cantilevered roof structure […]
Do Jump Very Physical Movement Theater Newmark Theater, Portland Center for the Performing Arts Portland, Oregon May 19?20, 2000 Reviewed by Martha Ullman West Fresh from the rigors of a highly successful season at New York’s New Victory Theater, this tireless company of dancer-actor-acrobats mounted a completely different show for the hometown, but not where […]
Reviewed by Albert Lee Raymond Alexander “Rayza Rayz” King did his best to raise the roof at Playhouse 91 in his opening rap to The Panther Peace. “Everybody say yeah!” he hollered, and the audience responded with less-than-rousing “yeah?s” and polite clapping along. Fortunately, actions speak louder than words and M?Zawa Danz brought plenty of […]
Mary Oslund & Company/Dance PCC Sylvania Performing Arts Center Portland, Oregon March 23?25, 2000 Reviewed by Martha Ullman West Put a videotape of Mary Oslund’s Behavior in a time capsule marked 2000, and a century from now viewers will know about the impact on the human psyche of the high-tech, high-speed American zeitgeist at the […]
Dancing Through Temporal Cavern Collage Dance Theatre Subway Terminal Building Los Angeles, California March 18?April 9, 2000 Reviewed by Donna Perlmutter Heidi Duckler arguably has the savvy to succeed in anything, but Collage, her performance-art/site-specific company, happens to be the engine she powers. Its latest project, subVersions, showed her as someone who knows how to […]
Darren Press and Meegan Godfrey from Diavolo Dance Theater Photo by Blaine Covert Diavolo Dance Theater Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall Portland, Oregon January 26, 2000 Reviewed by Martha Ullman West There was much to admire and little to engage when the Los Angeles-based Diavolo Dance Theater made its Portland debut with Catapult, La Comedie Humaine, […]
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