From sexy to sassy to Shining Sea. With their powerful thighs and boundless energy, Paul Taylor’s women seem more yang than yin. Then there’s Annmaria Mazzini. Her delicate features and physical abandon send a whiff of something different floating out to the audience. She wandered through the recent revival of From Sea to […]
From left: (front couple) Macha Daudel and Roberto Zamorano, (rear couple) Ashen Ataljanc and Walter Matteini in Mauro Bigonzetti’s Les Noces Photo by Richard Termine for The New York Times, courtesy BAM Compagnia Aterballetto Next Wave Festival Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY November 8, 9–12, 2005 Reviewed by Nancy Alfaro The theater […]
Tommy Neblett and Diane Arvanites-Noya in Wreckage. Photo by Jaye R. Phillips, courtesy Prometheus Dance Prometheus Dance Boston Conservatory Theatre, Boston, MA May 26–30, 2005 Reviewed by Iris Fanger Prometheus Dance presents movement pieces that veer toward theater in their strong images and characterizations, although they do not spin out a specific story. Its […]
Random Dance Company premiered Wayne McGregor?s Nemesis at the British Dance Edition Festival 2002. Ravi Deepres, Courtesy British Dance Edition British Dance Edition Various venues Birmingham, England January 30?February 2, 2002 Reviewed by Donald Hutera As the U.K. was being buffeted by wet, windy weather in late January, a small army of people in Birmingham […]
Pennylvania Ballet dancers donned Liz Prince?s retro-futuristic costumes for Trey McIntyre?s Plush. Photo by Paul Kolnik, courtesy Pennsylvania Ballet Pennsylvania Ballet The Merriam Theater Philadelphia, PA February 7?11, 2001 Reviewed by Lewis Whittington By the time viewers got to Plush, the much-anticipated Trey McIntyre premiere that closed an ambitious but skittish modern program from the […]
Carlos Acosta, seated, and Nigel Buffey in The Royal Ballet’s Shadowplay. Photo by Bill Cooper Royal Ballet: Triple Bill Royal Opera House, Covent Garden London, England, U.K. October 31, 2000 Reviewed by Margaret Willis This is Sir Anthony Dowell?s final season as artistic director of The Royal Ballet, and the repertoire this year includes works […]
Adrienne Dellas’s Shim Chung with principals Julia H. J. Moon and Jae-Keun Park. Photo courtesy Universal Ballet of Korea Universal Ballet Civic Opera House Chicago, Illinois April 26?30, 2000 Reviewed by Clive Barnes South Korea?s Universal Ballet seems to get more universal year by year?it is certainly a great one for traveling. Already since its […]
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