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Dd Critical Conversation: Trisha Brown, Repertory and Final Works at BAM
Rebecca and I had the pleasure of seeing the Trisha Brown Dance Company at BAM last week perform in works of repertory and the final pieces of Brown’s choreographic career. We thought this event...
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Joyce Marathon, Cont.: Buglisi Dance Theatre
On Sunday, February 10, Buglisi Dance Theatre performed a program of new and old works as part of its 20th anniversary season at the Joyce Theater. Program B featured two premieres, Butterflies and...
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Dd Critical Conversation: Meryl Tankard’s “The Oracle”
Alejandra Iannone: I saw The Oracle on February 7, 2013. It was a cold Thursday evening here in New York City and the theater at the NYU Skirball Center was far from full, with most of the audience...
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Dd Response: DanceBrazil at The Irvine Barclay Theatre
Light diffused across the stage of the Irvine Barclay Theatre to reveal members of DanceBrazil standing against a blue background, dressed in white. Their heads were tilted down and turned slightly to...
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Dd Response: Trisha Brown Dance Company: The Retrospective Project
By the second piece on Royce Program A of Trisha Brown Dance Company: The Retrospective Project presented by UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance, I liked Trisha Brown. In a concise solo called...
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Dd Response: Stephen Petronio Company’s Spring Revival at the Joyce
Spring is the season when the least mystical of New Yorkers find themselves praying for some kind of natural and personal resurrection, rolling the boulder away to emerge from the cave of winter. Last...
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Dd Response: Ballet BC at Irvine Barclay Theatre
Before Saturday at the Irvine Barclay Theater, the last time I had seen Rachel Meyer and Darren Devaney dance together was five years ago, during a rehearsal for my piece at San Francisco Conservatory...
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Dd Response: Finding Diverse Points of Reference in NYCB’s All Robbins Program
There are many choreographers who have neither the depth of ideas nor range to sustain a full evening and whose work is best suited to splitting a bill with another artistic voice. Jerome Robbins is...
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Dd Response: Unpacking Paradox in ABT’s Shostakovich Trilogy
Dmitiri Shostakovich is the kind of artist whose work invites intrigue. He composed under an intensely fearful and repressive regime, prompting many of his listeners to try to read between the phrases...
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Dd Response: RIOULT’s Woeful Woman and Magnificent Machinery
When I was a kid, Edith Hamilton’s Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes was a favorite of mine. I would read one chapter at a time, savoring the myths as dramatic treats to be consumed...
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Dd Video Countdown for National Dance Day: 6 of 20/20
Do you feel like the ballet world is less glamorous than it used to be? Today’s video linking ballet and fashion is for you: Are you a dance documentarian? What is your favorite dance video or short...
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Dd Video Countdown for National Dance Day: 9 of 20/20
Here at Dd a substantial part of our mission is bringing rigorous review to dance performances. We think our critics know best how to bring context to their own art form. We believe such thoughtful...
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Dd Video Countdown for National Dance Day: 18 of 20/20
It’s #tbt so we are going way back with Graham. Can’t help but appreciate the use of two cameras and so many interesting angles on the close-ups! What is your favorite dance video or short film? Send...
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Dd Response: Post:Ballet at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in SF
In San Francisco, excitement is building for Robert Dekker’s Post:Ballet, a small and relatively new company with all the markings of professionalism. I attended their fourth annual home season...
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Dd Video Countdown for National Dance Day: 20 of 20!
Happy National Dance Day! Here at Dd we have been anticipating this event–recognizing the importance and influence of our art form in and on the culture of our country–with a Video Countdown and the...
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Get Over the Hump
What gets me over the hump? This week it is teaching the lovely apprentices at BodyTonic Pilates Gymnasium in my new Tilda Stardust leggings from Shivura. Bowie, Tilda, and I all have our eyes on...
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#tbt: 1924 on the Mediterranean
As the summer weeks begin to dwindle (sigh), let’s throwback to Le Train Bleu. This adorable ballet was created for Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes by a superstar team: choreography by Bronislava Nijinska...
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Dd Response: Week 1 of Ballet v6.0 at the Joyce
When asking the big questions like “Is there a God?” and… “What is contemporary ballet in 2013?” artists (and believers) are searching for a raison d’etre. The curators of Ballet v6.0—a contemporary...
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Dd Response: Vendetta Mathea & Co at the Downtown Dance Festival
Vendetta Mathea, an American transplant in Aurillac, France, shared an excerpt of her new work, Water Soul, at the Downtown Dance Festival last Sunday. Since I was born and raised in France, it was...
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Complexions Contemporary Ballet & Lula Washington Dance Theater at the Ford...
It was difficult to talk any of my local friends into going with me to see Complexions Contemporary Ballet and Lula Washington Dance Theater perform last Saturday at the Ford Theater in Hollywood. Not...
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