★★★★✰ Power is a work borne of reimagining what Black Shaker worship was like in all its amazing complexity. The piece was inspired by Wilson’s enduring curiosity about the Shakers and his discovery of Mother Rebecca Cox Jackson, a black woman spiritual leader...
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★★★✰✰ Annie-B Parsons’ play-with-movement is based on Guy de Cointet’s 1982 play Five Sisters, an atmospheric meditation on vapid 1980’s Los Angeles. It also draws, ever-so-delicately, from Chekhov’s play Three Sisters....
★★★★✰ After months apart, Morris and his dancers have finally been reunited in the company’s studios. The result is Live From Brooklyn, a 45-minute program that includes a new work, Tempus Perfectum, set to Brahms...
★★✰✰✰ Last Work is not unlike other Batsheva pieces which use an assemblage of vignettes, however it doesn’t hang together as cohesively as say, Sadeh21.
★★★✰✰ Every few years the Mark Morris Dance Group presents an evening of dances at the company’s Brooklyn headquarters, a nondescript brick building across from BAM...
★★✰✰✰ Like all galas, this was quite a mixed bag. Over 200 students trooped on and offstage in a veritable tornado of activity before the veteran YAGP dancers stepped out for the showstopping stuff...
Grass and Jackals possesses what B/olero leaves wanting. Oversized eyebrows painted on each dancer...
Creases revealed, once again, Just Peck’s ability to create strikingly imaginative patterns and formations onstage.