★★★★★ "Bijayini Satpathy premieres 'Abhipsaa – A Seeking': An Artist’s Journey into and out of Solitude" says Karen Greenspan who saw Satpathy's deeply impressive triple bill at Duke Performances.
Tag - Baryshnikov Arts Center
★★★✰✰ The piece is strenuous, filled with running and partnering that, at first, verges on violent, and eventually turns rapturous, but never beautiful – De Keersmaeker never cedes to the lure of beauty...
...a perfect example of what can happen when an exceptional practitioner is led astray by an excess of theatrical ideas and special effects.
In New York we are lucky to see quite a bit of Indian classical dance. The local crowd has developed a taste for it, and thus has been spoiled with some memorable performances...
If there’s one overriding impression left by Rocío Molina’s intimate evening Afectos it’s the general eschewing of flamenco clichés. Molina does what she likes and is indebted to no-one.
Dance Heginbotham premieres a new full evening work, Dark Theater, later this month at the Brooklyn Academy of Music - Marina Harss talks to choreographer John Heginbotham about his latest work...
What one does not see much of, at least at first glance, is nostalgia for the motherland. “I never had nostalgia about anything,” Baryshnikov says.
...once she begins to dance, words become irrelevant: the clarity and detail of her dancing leaves no room for ambiguity or doubt. Like a master story-teller she is able to change registers and points of view in the course of a single solo...
Baryshnikov, now 64, still moves with style and finesse, but the choreography doesn’t offer any opportunities beyond a pseudo-Spanish cliché.