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Happendance Fairchild Theatre, Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan February 2?4, 2001 Reviewed by Kate O’Neill It’s surely remarkable when a small dance company weathers funding and other crises over the years to reach its twenty-fifth anniversary?even more remarkable when past dancers return to perform at the anniversary concert. Yet when Happendance, Michigan’s longest-running professional […]

Kathleen Dyer New York St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery New York, New York February 1?4, 2001z Reviewed by Kevin Giordano Of the two premieres which Kathleen Dyer New York presented in the program “The Well Seasons,” only the first, Chaingers, jelled. The evening’s second premiere, The Making of Dr. Horn, cried out for editing. Chaingers ‘s theme […]

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 […]

Pat Cannon’s Foot & Fiddle Dance Co. in Barn Dance. Photo by Will Landin Pat Cannon Foot & Fiddle Dance Company Cultural Arts Center, SUNY Rockland Suffern, New York October 22, 2000 Reviewed by Marilyn Hunt Percussive dancing is what Foot & Filddle is all about, but the dancers seem most at ease in down-home […]

Sydney Dance Company Memorial Auditorium Stanford, California October 13?14, 2000 Reviewed by Janice Ross The story of Salome has never been as popular a topic for choreographers in the United States as it has been in Europe. One of the few exceptions is California modern dancer Lester Horton’s 1938 staging of this biblical tale. The […]

The working-class tappers of Bootmen splash their way into the big time in a gritty Australian industrial town. Photo by Philip le Masurier courtesy Fox Searchlight Film: Bootmen Reviewed by Jane Goldberg Bootmen, an Australian movie about working-class tap dancers, is scheduled to open in the United States on October 6 (though such dates are […]

Oakland Ballet presents Betsy Erickson’s Sfumato. Photo by Marty Sohl courtesy Oakland Ballet Oakland Ballet Paramount Theater Oakland, California September 15?17, 2000 Reviewed by Rita Felciano Expectations ran high for this year’s opening night at Oakland Ballet, now under the directorship of former Dance Theater of Harlem principal Karen Brown. Since Brown only started her […]

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 […]