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It is a city that finally, and seemingly all at once, has sunk its hooks into the American psyche. Flip through the cable channels and you might see a cop show called Memphis Beat starring Jason Lee, or reruns of the reality series Police Women of Memphis, or the new cheerleading drama Hellcats, set at […]

Christopher Gattelli had gazpacho on his mind. Not the zesty combination of tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, and onions that goes into the cold Spanish soup. More like the mix of flamenco, mambo, the 1960s, and the 1980s from which he was planning to build the dance sequences in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown […]

Samantha Sturm is a creature of contradictions. Warming up before James Kinney’s theater dance class at New York’s Peridance Capezio studios, she seems the epitome of a shy, girlish ballerina. As she practices tendus, she stares critically at herself in the mirror. Her toes are stretched and articulated, her port de bras graceful and weightless. […]

Will Rawls Mt. Tremper Arts Festival Mt. Tremper, NY July 24, 2010 Reviewed by Christopher Atamian   Will Rawls. Photo by John Paul Hennessy, Courtesy Mt. Tremper Arts Festival.   “An exaltation of larks. A gaggle of geese. A pod of whales. A bed of oysters. A charm of finches. A knot of snakes…”   […]

    @lulawashington “I’ll Facebook message you my Twitter name.” Ten years ago, this sentence would have been meaningless. Today, however, we use social networking sites on a daily basis. Lula Washington explores this theme in her newest piece, WWW.CONNECTING.2010, which the Lula Washington Dance Theatre will debut at Peak Performances in Montclair, NJ, from […]

Broadway director/choreographer Warren Carlyle was meant to have a career in ballet. “Billy Elliot is my life story,” he says. He grew up in a working- class family in eastern England, won a ballet scholarship at 14, and two years later began dancing with Northern Ballet Theatre, a touring company based in Yorkshire. But he […]

Fabrice Herrault says French training is “not about style, but about details, and making every transition clear. It’s about the look of a classical ballet dancer: straight, elegant but strong; that focus in the eyes that really is everything; the line, sensitivity, and feeling in the movement, and the musicality, which is number one.”   […]

Choreographers’ Evening McGuire Theater Walker Art Center Minneapolis, MN November 29, 2008 Reviewed by Linda Shapiro   Photo: Cameron Wittig. The evening’s performers.   Click here for video clips from the event.   This annual artist-curated event showcases dance in the Twin Cities. Sally Rousse, co-founder of James Sewell Ballet, assembled this year’s program of […]