Contact Lincoln Center Mitzi Newhouse Theater New York City, New York October-November, 1999 For anyone aware of Agnes de Mille’s contribution to musical theater, Contact is hardly innovative. It’s three short stories told with minimal dialogue, substituting dancing to music for conventional musicals’ singing to music in order to move the plot along. Director/choreographer Susan […]
Carissa Coleman, center, in a luminous portrayal of Queen Lili’uokalani, with Peter Rockford Espiritu and Holly Chung in E Lili’u E. Photo: Peter Yee, courtesy of Tau Dance Theater Tau Dance Theater Hawai’i Theatre Honolulu, Hawaii June 2526, 1999 Rreviewed by Paula Durbin Since founding Tau Dance Theater three years ago, director Peter Rockford Espiritu […]
Cairo Opera Ballet Opera House, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Washington, D.C. May 26, 1999 Reviewed by George Jackson Hollywood used to have it in for opera, and a frequent target was Aida‹depicted with overripe singers, too many supernumeraries, moth-eaten elephants, and dancers contriving to move in a two-dimensional way. Cairo Opera […]
Fiona Wallis as the tragic Miss Havisham in Northern Ballet Theatre’s Great Expectations. Photo by Hanson courtesy of Northern Ballet Theatre Reviewed by Margaret Willis Northern Ballet Theatre’s new director, Stefano Giannetti, set himself an awesome task for his first production for the company, that of adapting and condensing Charles Dickens’s much-loved and very long […]
Frank Afrunti and Brett Mills dance Toni Pinble’s masterly Slipstream in Eugene Ballet’s spring season. Photo by Steve Welsh, courtesy Eugene Ballet. Eugene Ballet Company Hult Center for the Performing Arts April 17-18, 1999 Reviewed by Martha Ullman West Eugene,OR-Conventional wisdom is that while there’s no lack of good dancers around the country, the quality […]
Judson Caldeira and choreographer Sonya Delwaide perform her new work De la Tete aux Pieds at ODC Theater in San Francisco. Photo by Michael Slobodian, courtesy of Sonya Delwaide De la Tête aux Pieds ODC Theater, california February 26-28, 1999 Reviewed by Rita Felciano San Francisco-Sonya Delwaide’s recent move from her native Québec is good […]
Wally Cardona Quartet DTW’s Bessie Schönberg Theater New York City, New York January 26-February 14, 1999 Reviewed by Amanda Smith You’ve got to have intelligence, maturity, and a soul of particular complexity to do Wally Cardona’s work-such as Four Ramonas, made last year, and performed this January at Dance Theater Workshop. It’s so slow and […]
New Shoes, Old Souls Dance Company Cowell Theater San Francisco, California January 13-23, 1999 Reviewed by Ann Murphy Six years ago, a group of longtime Bay Area dancers got together and put on a show, and when they looked around and took count, they realized that theirs were unusual demographics. They were all over forty, […]
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