This year, a single performance stood out as gut-wrenching and unforgettable: Nadia Beugré, from Cote d’Ivoire, delivered an almost unbearably compelling solo titled Quartiers Libres, wherein pleasure and pain, freedom and oppression, intermingled. It was part of the Voices of Strength tour from Africa that stopped at New York Live Arts. When Beugré gradually stuffed […]
Books on Hermes Pan and Israeli dance, Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance on PBS, film Anna Karenina, Baryshnikov’s Nutcracker on Blu-ray Books Hermes Pan, The Man Who Danced with Fred Astaire By John C. Franceschina. Oxford University Press. 2012. 306 pages. Illustrated. $35. Growing up in Memphis as the son of […]
Hearts and eyes. The heart speaks through the eyes. You can see that in our cover shot of Bridgett Zehr and Zdenek Konvalina. Not only are they rising stars of National Ballet of Canada, but they are in love. Both from modest beginnings, they’ve helped each other […]
Wonderful things happened at the NDI Gala on Monday night. Allegra Kent played a buoyant, pleading mouse. Harry Belafonte watched a slew of kids dance for him. Jacques d’Amboise joked amiably with the audience. Belafonte walks with a cane now, but his speaking voice is still mellifluous. Always involved in […]
They Made Our World Larger Biographies of dancers who forged new paths Fernando Bujones: An Autobiography By Fernando Bujones with Zeida Cecilia-Méndez. Doral, FL: Higher Education & Technology Consultants, 2009. 342 pages. $35 + shipping. www.fernandobujones.com. Completed by Bujones’ longtime friend and coach after his death in 2005, this volume recounts a major […]
This time last year in “On Broadway,” we were eagerly looking ahead to Billy Elliot and West Side Story and absolutely clueless about the economic crisis beginning to engulf New York, the country, the world. But if history has taught us anything, it’s that bad times and good musicals often go together. Yes, shows were […]
National Tap Dance Day is May 25th, and there are two great (and inexpensive) ways for New York City hoofers to celebrate. On May 23rd, The Kitchen and The Studio Museum in Harlem present a collaborative performance by tap dancer Jason Samuels Smith, DJ Reborn, and film artist Rashaad Newsome as part of their quarterly […]
Set and Reset/Reset Teaching Trisha Brown at the University of Minnesota By Camille LeFevre “Peak, squiggle, step, step, around, pop up, break,” Wil Swanson sing-songs quietly, as he leads three young men in the University of Minnesota’s dance program through a phrase of Trisha Brown’s seminal work, Set and Reset (1983). “This arm pierces […]
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