Something Fresh in Edinburgh The Edinburgh International Festival brings a handful of dance front-runners to Scotland this year. Brazil-based Deborah Colker Dance Company has taken Onegin (see “Turning Into Tatiana,” p. 30) and transported it onto a huge geometric tree in Colker’s European premiere of her Tatyana. The Mariinsky Ballet also jumps on the “updated […]
Allegra Kent muses on the mirror as both friend and foe. New York City Ballet’s Janie Taylor and Craig Hall in Robbins’ Afternoon of a Faun. Photo by Paul Kolnik, Courtesy NYCB. When a dancer walks into a rehearsal room, wall-to-wall mirrors are nearly always present and can serve as an immediate reference point as […]
Packed Sardines DanceNOW’s Dancemopolitan festival, a sprawling, festive, messy performance series, welcomes downtown denizens back to the city every fall. Slews of dance artists, young and old, black and white, classical and quirky, descend on various small venues to show snippets of their work. This year, however, it all takes place in a […]
However you define “emerging,” it takes longer to get there than you’d think. The six dance artists here have made ripples in certain circles. They are now on the cusp of making waves in the larger dance world. Kyle Abraham New York City In high school, before he ever took a formal dance class, Kyle […]
New York City Ballet // Benjamin Millepied’s Plainspoken // David H. Koch Theater, NYC // February 19, 2011 // Reviewed by Joseph Carman Amar Ramasar, Sterling Hyltin, and Tyler Angle in Plainspoken. Photo by Paul Kolnik. Courtesy NYCB. Benjamin Millepied seems to approach choreographing new ballets as if he were solving math problems. How […]
A woman passes three men in the street. The men pursue her. They thrust their pelvises at her. They continue to pursue her after she slaps one’s hand and walks away. They surround her. She glances around at them in alarm. One snatches her purse (to review the Freudian significance of purses, click here) and […]
No matter what styles you specialize in, today’s competition and convention offerings are as unique as your dancing is. Dive into info on 107 events with performance opportunities and master classes galore. Competition Category Key: A = Acro B = Ballet C = Contemporary CHE = Cheer/Pom/Etc. DT = Dance Team H = Hip Hop […]
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