★★★★✰ Music from the Sole’s Partido, a premiere at Harlem Stage, is a marvelous feast of rhythm, both visual and aural.
Author - Susanna Sloat
Susanna Sloat talks to Ayodele Casel and Torya Beard, co-curators of NY's Little Island Dance Festival, about the festival and their wider work in and around dance.
More from Lincoln Center's BAAND Together Dance Festival as Susanna Sloat reviews Programs 3 and 4
★★★★✰ Presented on the 15 August 2021 and featuring works by Parul Shah Dance Company, Kasi Aysola & SaiSantosh Radhakrishnan, Swathi Gundapuneedi-Atluri, Maya Kulkarni & Dancers.
★★★✰✰ ...it was Miller’s dancers’ forceful and liquid dancing that pulled it all together.
★★★★✰ A handsomely patterned, stylized salute to New York City club dancing.
★★★★✰ LaTasha Barnes wanted Black dancers dedicated to contemporary Black vernaculars to also immerse themselves in the jazz dance world of the Lindy Hop. The very engaging Jazz Continuum is the result.
★★★★✰ “Take Me Back,” makes you forget, for a half hour or so, that you are wearing a mask. Different dancers come to the fore, with voguing sashays or quick arm slices, breaking moves, individual, or simultaneous – startling and satisfying when a group is on the floor, revolving together...
★★★★✰ 'Jangdan: Conversation of the Breath' is the work of Kim So Ra, a virtuoso on the two-sided hourglass drum, the janggu, together with two fellow musicians, Hyun Seung Hun and Hong Ji Hye, and two Korean modern dancers, Kim Young Mi and Hong Kyeong Hwa.
The Jacob’s Pillow website contains an important and incredibly diverse dance archive under the banner "Dance Interactive" - Susanna Sloat introduces an important resource and calls out many video gems...
Works & Process, a series that has been running at the Guggenheim Museum for over thirty-five years, is a valuable part of New York City’s cultural life and, in Covid-19 lockdown it's spawned much digital and work in bubbles from creatives and creative spaces all around...
★★★★✰ Kyle Abraham has created a short 4 minute video work for the National Sawdust FERUS Festival - it's composed from a much longer work to be premiered later in the year. Susanna Sloat finds it "very handsome and pleasing..."
David Gordon has been collaging past choreography and present variations, text and narration, video and photographs and graphic arts, personal and cultural history for so long that it is no surprise he was perfectly positioned to make something truly involving under lock down...
★★★★✰ Ice Cycle is an unusually beautiful vision suggesting, at times, the effects of global warming, encompassing Sperling’s environmental concerns as well as her choreographic and design mastery.
★★★★✰ Rooms2020 retains Sokolow’s intensely expressive choreography, which makes it a striking documentation of the aloneness and alienation that can pervade this time of pandemic.
★★★★★ Dormeshia’s And Still You Must Swing is the first online dance that made me want to write about it. I knew it would be good...
To say Carnival can be an all-consuming celebration of life seems something of an understatement for some communities and nations. Susanna Sloat with a lively and detailed account of a recent Eastern Caribbean jaunt to Guadeloupe. And the spelling? Well, it’s always Carnaval in Guadeloupe...
★★★✰✰ “Space is the Place,” was the Sun Ra anthem. And those were the words for the last song in a tribute to the late pianist and Arkestra leader, conceived by Nona Hendryx and presented by Met Live Arts and Harlem Stage, at the Temple of Dendur in the Metropolitan Museum...
★★★✰✰ Lasting 75 minutes the Che Malambo show is quite spectacular, if unevenly so...
★★★★✰ New York City Ballet is off to a fine start when it opens the winter season with a very well-danced all Balanchine, all Stravinsky program.