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Adreinne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts Miami, FL January 6–8, 2012 Performance reviewed: Jan 6 Miami City Ballet welcomed the New Year trumpeting a world premiere by Liam Scarlett, an up-and-soaring choreographer from England who dances for The Royal Ballet. Unlike Asphodel Meadows, the artist’s first work for his home company’s main stage in […]

A tribute and contemplation by © Kenneth King Come now, surely you know that dying is also one of life’s duties? —Seneca, Letters from a Stoic Beginning in the 1960s, and throughout the following two decades, a sizeable cadre of choreographers, led by Merce Cunningham, was identified in the pages of the New York Times […]

    Choreographer Marjorie Gamso’s dances were characterized by their delicate physicality and conceptual rigor. They were suffused with her wild imagination, outstanding intellect, and artistic toughness. Her pieces were profoundly and idiosyncratically experimental, linking choreography and dance to visual art, literature, music, and philosophy, all areas she kept abreast of assiduously. Gamso, born and […]

New York City Center, NYC Dec. 1, 2010–Jan. 2, 2011 Performances reviewed: Dec. 16, 21 The ticket reads, “Robert Battle’s First Season,” and if you still have yours, hang onto it. Decades later, when the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is still going strong, 2011 will be recalled as the year when even the warm, […]

Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, NYC December 8–15, 2011 Performance reviewed: Dec. 13 There was something divine about this performance. Maybe it was the sense of enthrallment from the inching-along beginning to the elegiac end. Maybe it was the sly way it slid from sensuality to sexuality. Maybe it was the altered world of […]

Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, NYC December 8–15, 2011 Performance reviewed: Dec. 13 There was something divine about this performance. Maybe it was the sense of enthrallment from the inching-along beginning to the elegiac end. Maybe it was the sly way it slid from sensuality to sexuality. Maybe it was the altered world of […]