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Style Meets Substance: Annabelle Lopez Ochoa

It’s 3:00 in the afternoon in Madrid and the air in the rehearsal studio of Spain’s Compañía Nacional de Danza is dense with concentration. Sixteen dancers are rehearsing Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s In Transit, in preparation for its January premiere. The dance is filled with rapid crossings, encounters, and occasional collisions. One lone woman sits quietly […]

Best of 2011

Once again my list is completely subjective, limited by what I happened to see. There were LOTS of good performances this year. Please know that the order within each category is fairly random. Best Performances • Dana Caspersen in I don’t believe in outer space by William Forsythe at BAM: gutsy, fascinating distortions of voice […]

American Ballet Theatre: Fall Season

New York City Center November 8–13, 2011 Performances reviewed: Nov. 8, 9, 12 (matinee) & 13 After skipping a couple of seasons at City Center, ABT returned to the renovated theater, which suited the company’s contemporary repertory season, even if just for one week. The selected works reminded us of the extant riches produced by […]

Alina Cojocaru as Giselle: Spiritual in both acts

5:00 a.m. I just realized I won’t back get to sleep unless I write about Cojocaru’s Giselle. She’s invaded my dreams. She reminded me of Gelsey Kirkland 35 years ago. The little-girl look, the vulnerability, the feeling of a heart exposed. Cojocaru’s delicate face has a whiff of sadness around the eyes that foreshadows the […]

American Ballet Theatre

American Ballet Theatre Metropolitan Opera House May 25, 2011 Reviewed by Gus Solomons jr Sascha Radetsky, Alexandre Hammoudi and Daniil Simkin in Benjamin Millepied’s Troika. Photo by Mikhail Logvinov. Courtesy ABT.   It’s a shame the general public has no idea how difficult the dancing is that American Ballet Theatre does with such authority, grace, […]

Dancing in the Twittersphere

Alex Wong got his cast off, New York City Ballet’s Kathryn Morgan is heading to Prada, Houston Ballet’s Melissa Hough feels narcoleptic after the fall rep, and Miami City Ballet’s Rebecca King is taking five before a Bugaku rehearsal. How do I know all this? Simple, I follow them on Twitter.   I was born […]

Vital Signs

      France Dances To celebrate its 30th anniversary, France’s Montpellier Dance Festival is chock-full of powerhouse dance companies. American staples such as the Merce Cunningham and Trisha Brown groups join forces with talent from across the globe. Nederlands Dans Theater, with their exquisite precision and flawless lines, presents works by Jirí Kylián and […]

Reviews

American Ballet Theatre Metropolitan Opera House, NYC. May 18–July 11, 2009 Reviewed by Lynn Garafola   With two repertory programs, six full-length ballets, and wildly cheering crowds, the eight-week American Ballet Theatre season at the Metropolitan Opera was in many ways business as usual. However, with Nina Ananiashvili’s farewell performance, the presence of exciting newcomers, […]