Category: Dance
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Kayla Farrish in Three Conversations
Kayla Farrish shared two new works, A Beast and DOCILE, at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park’s Black Box Theatre
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Disco At The House of Fabulation
Maia Sauer on Symara Sarai’s “The LOVE Piece” at Danspace Project.
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Becoming an American Choreographer
Contributor Sophie Frizzell on the The Gerald Arpino Festival at The Joyce.
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Doing It Wrong Together: Alexa West’s “Jawbreaker” and the Choreography of Strain
Actual transformation will generate friction and call for care; work will require rest, and resentments made will require dialogue.
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Noa Weiss on AMERICAN IDLE by Maia Chao choreographed by Lena Engelstein
People perform for their phones, people perform for each other. We continue to watch.
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Loving Doubles: A Search for Connection in Mamie Green’s LONELINESS TRIPTYCH
The performance starts before it begins. A rug unfurled; A stretch to prepare; A folding chair opened to reveal the flat steel plane of its seat. There are bells ringing in the audience. Loneliness, as such, is a texture of one’s mind—the contours of the thoughts that we hold in relation to ourselves and others;…
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some rooms are meant for waiting: Caitlin Adams’s ASSEMBLY is a phenomenology of emergent meaning
“Go!” is an affirmation of consent. Meaning emerges from this limited vocabulary as well. “Ready? Four!” becomes “ready for” a dangling question asking, “ready for what?”
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In CURRICULUM III: PEOPLE, PLACES, AND THINGS Bill T. Jones Journeys Into the Heart of American Darkness
At the conclusion of the electrifying performance of Curriculum III: People, Places, and Things, members of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company took their bows to a standing ovation from an enthusiastic audience. When the dancers invited their company’s Artistic Director to join them, it was no surprise. Opening nights, especially when it´s a…
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Memory in Movement: Bill T. Jones’ in MEMORY PIECE at NYLA
At the opening of Memory Piece: Mr. Ailey, Alvin…the un-Ailey?, we catch glimpses of Bill T. Jones dancing in and out of darkness. His flowing white pants and matching shirt caress his body´s sinewy strength, and he practically prances in and out of the various squares of light that flash on to the floor before…
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The Vivid Luminosity That Words Can’t Carry: Jean-Christophe Maillot’s ROMÉO ET JULIETTE
How does one take a classic literary work shaped by poetry and weave it into movement? How can you craft a physical manifestation of a character’s declarative words and let their psychological complexities dwell in every step? If there was never a tale of more woe than that of Juliet and her Romeo, never…
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La MaMA MOVES MFA Evening and The Gift of Time
For the 20th incarnation of La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival programming director Nicky Paraiso reminded us of the importance of experimental theater in times of political turmoil. Something tells me if he could, Paraiso would remind everyone of this. Having had to defend my belief in dance’s value, in the value of movement as not…
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Plz Just Ask: TIDES by John Jasperse for La Mama Moves! Festival
“I wanted to see the John Jasperse piece at La Mama but didnt have money for a ticket, so I offered to write about it,” I texted Jodi Melnick, performer-collaborator in the piece– who once generously, and perhaps regretfully– gave me her phone number while she was my dance teacher at Barnard College. Given the…