Both of these performers are at the top of their game. It’s an intense experience, 70 minutes without interval but the flow of invention doesn’t cease.
Reviews
Reviews of Dance and Ballet Performances
Ondiviela has established himself as a choreographer on a bigger scale than before, though still in need of an outside eye as he goes freelance. And he has found a future star in Olivia Cowley.
The Washington Ballet hit all the right marks with its 70th anniversary season opening program at the Sidney Harman Hall in October.
It’s not often we get such high quality performances of live music for contemporary dance. Here their playing was wonderfully focused and alive...
Herein lies one of the more unfortunate traits of Kontakthof: there is more madness than dancing...
Troy Schumacher's BalletCollective company is a work in progress and unusually has a resident writer, Cynthia Zarin. Marina Harss, at New York's Skirball Center, sees where they are all at...
These dudes are clearly the surfers of the ice skating world; athletes who are creating a new freestyle version of their discipline...
Critics have compared the new Liam Scarlett to Jerome Robbins’ Dances at a Gathering; if so, it’s as if Dances had been set in an unhappy corner of the planet, for a group of lost souls...
The dancers’ dedication and sense of purpose were genuine and consistently present; but I wasn’t moved.
"It was a hell of a performance." Marina Harss on Jerome Robbins’ Fancy Free.
...there's a strong whiff of 'experimental student' here, but there's also a good bit of talent on display.
Liam Scarlett's "With a Chance of Rain" premiere - It seemed Marcelo Gomes and Hee Seo might never detach from each other in the final pas de deux...
Tao Ye has a very singular, uncompromising vision. The works are stark and unadorned, using very simple vocabulary...
The word transcendent gets tossed around a lot, overused, especially in the performing arts. But if one performer deserves it at this year's Fall For Dance Festival, it is Aakash Odedra.
Jann Parry reviews Scènes de ballet, Five Brahms Waltzes, Symphonic Variations and A Month in the Country...
Gillian Lynne has made Helpmann and Benthall's wartime collaboration into a gutsy dramatic ballet, probably with more choreography than Helpmann attempted.
Refreshingly unpretentious, Students is nothing but the purest proof that hip-hop choreography is just as polished an art form as any other,..
The recent programme in Grasse was a revival of two very early works from the company’s beginnings, Aktualismus from 1989 and 4Log Volapűk from 1992. If the titles have any significance, it escaped me...
What a strange world flamenco dancer Rocío Molina conjures up for us in her latest show...
Puppeteer Basil Twist is pushing boundaries again in New York as part of the White Light Festival, with a triple bill based on Stravinsky...