Category: Dance
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Matthew Bourne’s ‘Swan Lake’
Some one once dubbed Matthew Bourne’s ‘Swan Lake’ the “all male Swan Lake,” and this reductive moniker has stuck, overshadowing the many creative choices and details that have made this reinvention of a classic ballet so successful.
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Ivy Baldwin’s “Here Rests Peggy,” Closing This Weekend at the Chocolate Factory
Ivy Baldwin’s creative and thoughtful “Here Rest Peggy” closes at the Chocolate Factory this weekend.
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Empty Moves at BAM
Wednesday evening Culturebot saw Empty moves (parts I & II) by Ballet Preljocaj at BAM. We enjoyed it immensely.
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More than Five Questions for Patricia Hoffbauer
Culturebot Contributor Maura Donohue speaks with Patricia Hoffbauer who is at Danspace Project this week on a shared program with The Adventure, in the culminating event of Trajal Harrell’s Platform “certain difficulties, certain joy.”
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Dark Matters at Montclair and THEM at PS122
Ishmael Houston-Jones’ THEM at PS122 calls out a rousing alarm from the darkness of the AIDS crisis while Kidd Pivot’s DARK MATTERS treads more lightly on the existential dark within.
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Les SlovaKs at Baryshnikov Arts Center
Les SlovaKs Dance Collective made their NYC debut this past week with “Opening Night,” a valentine to dance and national identity in a postmodern world.
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How Far Have We Really Come?
The sort of stuff I thought about last night watching Chris Cochrane, Ishamel Houston-Jones, and Dennis Cooper’s “Them” at PS 122.
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Les Ballets C de la B at the Joyce
The charms of Alain Platel’s les Ballets C de la B.
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Five Questions for Brian Rogers & Ivy Baldwin
I asked Brian Rogers, the Artistic Director of The Chocolate Factory, and choreographer Ivy Baldwin, whose “Here Rests Peggy” opened there yesterday (and runs through next week) a few questions about their relationship to the venue. To Brian: What does an artist like Ivy offer the field? Ivy (in my view) is one of the…
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David Wampach at CPR and Amanda Loulaki at PS 122
David Wampach’s “Bascule” was surprisingly good, while Amanda Loulaki’s “I Am Saying Good Night” disappointed.
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Crystal Pite/Kidd Pivot Comes to Montclair University
Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite & her company Kidd Pivot bring “Dark Matters” to Montclair Univ.