In both shows, the most exciting element was the push-and-pull between the music-making and the dancing.
Reviews
Reviews of Dance and Ballet Performances
My People is a mature work, developed in close collaboration with the composers, that deserves to be widely seen.
...for the world premiere of Biophony, King collaborated with the entire natural world....
None of it made any sense, and yet there were moments of heart-catching beauty...
Flexn is interesting because it seems to be just as much about narrative as it is about moves. The dancers take the lyrics of rap and hip hop songs and make stories out of them.
Both nights that I attended were blessed with an exquisite Cinderella. Gillian Murphy gave this production a beating heart with her tenderly expressive and incisive performance...
There are dances that grip you from the first moment, and others that get under your skin, little by little, drop by drop. Liz Gerring’s Glacier is the latter...
The second night... this was by far the best program I’ve ever seen Ailey offer: five pieces, each as good as the others in its different way...
It’s a truism that any startlingly new dance-maker without an early elite training will have based his (or her) choreography on their own physique...
Nothing can ignite a cowboy’s imagination better than the fluttery ruffles of a voluminous skirt...
As always, it's a pleasure to see the Joffrey Ballet, especially since 2007 when artistic director Ashley Wheater assumed his post and began a terrific revival of the company...
The opening and closing pieces showed how skilfully Cohan responds to dancers whose training and experience are very different from the Graham-based technique on which he drew for many decades.
Karole Armitage is in a groove, and it's environmental. On the Nature of Things, presented at the American Museum of Natural History, is her latest in a string of works addressing the all too rapid ecological devastation humans are wreaking on the planet.
Contemporary dance pioneer Shobana Jeyasingh takes a bold, inspired step along her chosen route of exploring marginality and difference with this latest Royal Ballet commissioned work.
David Nixon must be able to lay claim to being the most prolific creator of full-length narrative ballets at work today...
IMHO, there is no better story-telling choreographer around today....
ODC boasts world-class contemporary dancers, and they moved with weight, intention and a compelling tenderness...
The Paul Taylor Dance Company, rechristened Paul Taylor’s American Modern Dance, is in the midst of its yearly three-week New York run at the Koch Theater. This is a pivotal time for the company...
All three performances brought home the fact that this is a very strong company with the skills to perform any choreography that comes its way...
Principal dancers Mathilde Froustey and Carlos Quenedit were exactly what the audience wanted on opening night.