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Vampires bare their fangs in the Carolinas, bayadères besiege Boston, and you can’t make a move without encountering a ballet set to Carmina Burana. The dancescape this autumn looks promising. At home, ballet companies favor narratives, some traditional, others original. The touring slate includes major expeditions from Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Sankai Juku, and, as […]

      The bucketful of water that doused Andrea Parson was the first shock of the night at last fall’s premiere of Not I. Sarah Slipper, the artistic director of Portland, Oregon’s Northwest Dance Project, created the work on Parson, who began the piece alone on a bare stage under a spotlight as the […]

Chicago is bursting with dance. In just three days I saw performances by the Joffrey Ballet and Jump Rhythm Jazz Project, rehearsals of Hubbard Street and Giordano Jazz  Dance, and classes at the Joffrey Academy of Dance. There are way more dance events going on, but these are the bases I happened to touch down […]

Light/The Holocaust & Humanity Project Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre takes on the heavy stuff.   A far cry from fluffy fairytales, Stephen Mills’ Light/The Holocaust & Humanity Project challenges ballet to take on big issues. Ballet Austin’s 2005 production is performed this month by Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre as the centerpiece of PBT’s 40th anniversary season.   […]

Martha Graham Dance Company Skirball Center, NYC • May 12–16, 2009 • Reviewed by Susan Yung   Watching Martha Graham’s Clytemnestra (1958) served as a reminder of what might be missing or impossible in today’s cultural climate. Graham’s indelible, un-ironic language of angst—enhanced by Noguchi’s reductive set and elegant costumes by Graham and Helen McGehee—plumbs […]

Architectural Endeavors Hubbard Street Dance Chicago teamed up with the Illinois Institute of Technology’s College of Architecture to create scenic designs in alternative spaces in combination with works by HSDC choreographers. The 12 IIT students submerged themselves in the scene to learn more about the art of dance. They met weekly with the choreographers, dancers, […]