★★★✰✰ 'Dora: Tramontane' is a powerful and elegant piece of theatre... What it isn’t, is a particularly engrossing piece of dance theatre.
Tag - Bill T. Jones
Martha Clarke talks to Jann Parry about Chéri - at the ROH Linbury Studio Theatre, 29 Sept – 4 Oct 2015...
The evening is divided into two parts, with images of love and coupling more dominant in the first and greater abstraction seeping into the second.
Transitions Dance Company is a finishing school that provides a special opportunity to contextualise their dance studies and training and this year’s ensemble demonstrated a strong range of capabilities across a wide spectrum of skill sets.
Since becoming artistic director at Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 2011, Robert Battle has been steadily mixing up the company’s repertory, adding works by choreographers beyond its usual range: Paul Taylor, Ohad Naharin, and Wayne McGregor, to name just three.
James Welsby’s 'Hex', which premiered as part of the 2014 Next Wave Festival, can be read as a kind of bookend to Bill T. Jones 'Still/Here'. It has been informed by more than twenty years of queer activism...
I have yet to see a less than full-throttle performance, even when a choreographer’s style does not quite fit the company’s technique...
A Rite, in the hands of Jones, Bogart, and Wong, is the most startling and insightful version I have seen...
It takes a certain amount of nerve to build a dance season around some of the great masterpieces of the chamber music repertoire. It’s not simply a matter of status in the musical canon; these pieces are strong, they produce emotions, they command attention for themselves. But Bill T Jones is not a timid artist...
Every May for the past nine years the SFIAF presented an amazing array of live music, theater and dance from all over the world. Most of these performers would never be seen here in San Francisco if it weren’t for festival director Andrew Wood’s fanatic desire to bring as many diverse groups as the limited budget will allow.