{Dd} Response: The Satellite Collective at BAM Fisher
The Satellite Collective made its debut at BAM Fisher last week-end bringing twenty seven different artists in dance, music, writing and visual arts together to collaborate on different pieces. Though...
View ArticleDd Response: Preljocaj–The Sexiest in Ballet?
The curtain opened to partially reveal the women of Angelin Preljocaj’s Les Nuits (The Nights) at the Music Center, but a mixture of white smoke and darkness–and the fact that they were tangled in a...
View ArticleDd Response: LEO at the Irvine Barclay Theatre
LEO, a one-man physical theater hearkening from Berlin, literally tipped the stage of the Irvine Barclay Theatre on its side on Saturday, October 5th. A set by Flavia Hevin consisted of three walls...
View Article{Dd} Critical Conversation: The continuing process of RoseAnne Spradlin’s...
Choreographer RoseAnne Spradlin and Alexandra Pinel met in the New York Live Arts Conference Room, a couple weeks before the opening of her show g-h-o-s-t-c-r-o-w-n (working title) to talk about the...
View Article{Dd} Response: David Rousseve’s REALITY/Stardust
Text messages in white Helvetica pinged onto a black backdrop, then faded away. In REALITY/Stardust, choreographer David Roussève depicted a fragmented reality that existed in the form of these...
View ArticleDd Response: LEO at the Irvine Barclay Theatre
LEO, a one-man physical theater hearkening from Berlin, literally tipped the stage of the Irvine Barclay Theatre on its side on Saturday, October 5th. A set by Flavia Hevin consisted of three walls...
View ArticleNYC 2013 Bessies Dance Awards Recap
Missed the Bessies? Or feel like going back in time to this epic award ceremony dedicated to dance? Get the play-by-play on the Storify recap of the Bessies as our own Alejandra and Alexandra report...
View Article{ Dd } Response: Kyle Abraham’s Wolves Unleashed at New York Live Arts
There is something to be said about witnessing an artist, who has received the incredible amount of support Kyle has, materialize an idea into a fully produced performance with beautifully tailored...
View ArticleDd Response: LEO at the Irvine Barclay Theatre
LEO, a one-man physical theater hearkening from Berlin, literally tipped the stage of the Irvine Barclay Theatre on its side on Saturday, October 5th. A set by Flavia Hevin consisted of three walls...
View ArticleDd Response: Lighting Brings out the Darkness of Kibbutz Contemporary Dance...
Dark skirts swirled across the stage of the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts last Wednesday night in Los Angeles, California. At the back of the stage hung a moon, or an orb of light I...
View Article{Dd} Preview: Soft Openings at Triskelion Arts
Spark(edIt) Arts newly introduced “Soft Openings” is an evening of performance reflective of its founder, Nadia Tykulsker’s desire to engage in performance as research. Tykulsker is the artistic...
View ArticleNYC 2013 Bessies Dance Awards Recap
Missed the Bessies? Or feel like going back in time to this epic award ceremony dedicated to dance? Get the play-by-play on the Storify recap of the Bessies as our own Alejandra and Alexandra report...
View ArticleWorth the Drive? Ballets Jazz Montreal’s L.A. Appearance
Seeing a dance that’s set to music to which you’ve also choreographed is unsettling in the same way hearing a song can remind you of a cheating ex. So I was not poised to enjoy “Zero In On,” a duet...
View ArticleDd Response: “mouth to mouth” Ate9
It was Ate9’s final run of “mouth to mouth” in LA. The show closed where it had premiered, and where the company often rehearses, at Los Angeles Live Arts. We were ushered single file into the warmly...
View ArticleLaguna Dance Festival Contrasts Two Contemporary Companies, Part II
On Sunday, September 13th, I returned to the Laguna Playhouse for the Festival’s second presentation, Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet. The big draw seemed to be their newest collaborative work, “Biophony,”...
View ArticleNYC 2013 Bessies Dance Awards Recap
Missed the Bessies? Or feel like going back in time to this epic award ceremony dedicated to dance? Get the play-by-play on the Storify recap of the Bessies as our own Alejandra and Alexandra report...
View ArticleCritical Conversation: A Young Person’s Perspective on Hubbard Street 2 and...
Lola is a precocious young lady who lives with her family in New York City, She is a third-grade student at the Talented & Gifted School for Young Scholars (M012), and studies dance at The Ailey...
View ArticleDd Short Short List for Week of 1/27-2/2
Enjoy Candice’s Short Short List for this week! 1. FLICfest. CJ Holm and Vanessa Walters. A “danced nature documentary” by Holm followed by Walters’ Ripening/Yield, an “ominous exploration of...
View ArticleDoes Art Have an Expiration Date?
Fancy Free, choreographed by Jerome Robbins, has all the feel of a 1940s Broadway musical, without any of the lyrics. The dance is structured around a thin narrative about three boisterous sailors on...
View ArticleArt Through Friendship: Seán Curran Company and the Ustatshakirt Plus Ensemble
In 2012, the U.S. Department of State and the Brooklyn Academy of Music invited Seán Curran to participate in DanceMotion USA, a project that sends American dance companies overseas to facilitate...
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