Books Every Step You Take By Jock Soto Harper, 2011. 288 pages. Illustrated. Hardcover, $24.99. “I was a dance addict,” remembers Jock Soto—and you’ll find his book addicting, too. The former New York City Ballet principal—an instinctive dancer’s dancer—has written a memoir that’s equal parts an emotional contemplation of family and identity, and a fascinating […]
Ballet British Columbia Queen Elizabeth Theatre • Vancouver, Canada • November 18–20, 2010 • Reviewed by Michael Crabb Ballet BC’s season opener of three contemporary works was more than an evening of fine dancing. It was a triumphant declaration by the Vancouver-based troupe that it’s back from the brink and, in its 25th year, […]
Meet 2010’s showstoppers William Wingfield and Whitney Jensen, two of our 2010 “25 to Watch.” Photo by Matthew Karas. Robert Fairchild If there was ever a crush-worthy ballet boy, it’s 22-year-old Robert Fairchild. A new principal with New York City Ballet, Fairchild beckons the viewer with innocent, pool-like dark eyes and […]
Jonah Bokaer is everywhere these days. Whether he’s choreographing operas for avant-garde theater director Robert Wilson, building new spaces for dance in Brooklyn, collaborating on a fashion shoot for The New York Times’ T. Magazine, or presenting multidimensional performance pieces, his calendar is brimming with cool collaborations in nontraditional spaces. Yet with so much on […]
Astonishing. Stunning. Dreamy. Powerful. These are some of the adjectives that come to mind as I watch Yuan Yuan Tan dance. But I am stumped when I try to think of verbs for her. I don’t know what it is she does to capture my attention so completely. She is not incredibly […]
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has named the inaugural 21 Doris Duke Artists, each of whom will receive a multi-year cash grant of $225,000, plus up to $50,000 more for audience development and retirement funding. The selected artists were chosen in the fields of contemporary dance, theater, and jazz, via an anonymous peer review They […]
Christopher Williams Dance Theater Workshop, NYC May 12–16, 2009 Reviewed by Margaret Fuhrer Photo: Williams’ The Golden Legend. © 2009 Yi-Chun Wu, courtesy DTW Nothing is as beautifully, compellingly weird as Medieval literature—except, perhaps, dance about Medieval literature. Christopher Williams used early Christian mythology as the basis for his acclaimed 2005 work Ursula […]
A magician’s goal is to astonish an audience with seemingly impossible feats through illusion. There is a skill behind it, but the crowd only sees the magic. Dance, an art form sometimes built on pleasing through illusions, has reached a new level of sleight of hand. Computers have invaded the scene. Stages become moving […]
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