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Colorado Ballet Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY March 6, 2005 Ballet Aspen Santa Fe Joyce Theater, New York, NY March 8–13 Reviewed by Clive Barnes   If New Yorkers couldn’t get to the Rocky Mountains this ski season, then the Rocky Mountains came to New York, in the form of the […]

Paul Taylor Dance Company City Center, New York, NY March 1–20, 2005 Reviewed by Clive Barnes   The Paul Taylor Dance Company is recognizing its Golden Jubilee by appearing in all 50 states during its 2004–05 season. In New York it staged an impressive 19 ballets, including the New York premieres of Klezmerbluegrass and Dante […]

Myrna Packer in Under the Skin Photo by Nan Melville The 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Project Duke Theater, New York, NY February 23–27, March 2–6, 16–20, 2005 Reviewed by Jim Dowling   The “92 on 42” series, as it is informally known, brings essential modern and experimental dance programming from the 92nd Street Y […]

Robert Henry Johnson, Othello Papers Photo: Kimara Dixon.   2005 Black Choreographers Festival: Here and Now Project Artaud Theater, San Francisco, CA February 12, 2005 Reviewed by Valerie Gladstone   Walking into the crowded theater lobby for the Black Choreographers Festival felt like joining a friendly house party. The fragrant smell of barbecued chicken and […]

Rome Opera Ballet Teatro Costanzi, Rome, Italy January 13�16, 2005 Reviewed by Silvia Poletti   During her nearly five years as director of the Rome Opera Ballet, Carla Fracci has battled the common opinion that the company is lazy and bored. Under the public’s watchful eye, a new generation of dancers is budding under her […]

Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo Grimaldi Forum, Monte-Carlo, Monaco December 26–29, 2004 Reviewed by Alexander Meinertz   In Memoriam , a dance-theater piece by a modern dance choreographer for a classical ballet company, explores notions of life and death and asks whether the present cannot also define the past. Belgian choreographer Sidi Barbi Cherkaoui built the […]

Hannah Ramsey and Amber Hirsch from AKRNYM. Photo by Tom Ruth.   newsteps Mulberry Street Theater, New York, NY December 2–4, 2004 Reviewed by Jim Dowling   Mulberry Street Theater, home to the cross-cultural H.T. Chen and Dancers, sponsors performance opportunities for choreographers. While the Ear to the Ground series focuses on Asian-American artists, the […]

DC 10th International Improvisation Plus+ Festival Betts Marvin Theatre, Washington, DC December 1–12, 2004 Reviewed by Lisa Traiger   Blink , and you’ll miss how a wily dancer stuffed himself into the cavity of a grand piano. Blink again and wonder when two dancers morphed into a half-dozen, one tossing a partner ragdoll-like in the […]