Via Ray Bolger’s trajectory we traverse the boards of Broadway and the silver screen of Hollywood — as well as the smaller, but equally thrilling, milieux of nightclubs and television st…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:37AM"The work is now stronger having successfully balanced both the needs of the visual choreography and the sound."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:18PMCould it be that choreographer Wayne McGregor choked in the face of the Rite of Spring challenge?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:32PMThe young choreographers Camille A. Brown and Kyle Abraham, whose companies are sharing a double bill at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, end the evening with a duet, “How We Proce…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:57PMBECKET - We blinked, and suddenly the Mark Morris Dance Group is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Another blink, and it’s the last week of this year’s Jacob’s Pillow Dance…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 03:59PMBECKET - At Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival this week, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet is demonstrating that in the three years since its last visit, the company has kept pace with the morphing cu…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:28PMSharing a double bill at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival this week, the choreographers Jodi Melnick and David Neumann are a bit of an odd couple. Melnick, a delicate and precise mover, k…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:37PMBECKET - What becomes a legend most? The choreographer Trisha Brown, whose namesake company is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, has seen trends and movements come and go, and she …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:58PMWe all come from somewhere, and the young choreographer and dancer Jonah Bokaer belongs to a spectacular lineage. He danced for Merce Cunningham, who danced for Martha Graham, who danced for…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:02PMBECKET - The group 3e étage, made up of world-class dancers borrowed from the Paris Opera Ballet, is making its US debut at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival this week. In the program…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:31PMAnnie-B Parson and Paul Lazar, the co-directors of Big Dance Theater, whose “Supernatural Wife’’ is now being presented at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, deconstruct …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:30PMBECKET - Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, that wonderful little United Nations of dance, is proudly presenting, for the first time in its 79 seasons, a contemporary dance company from Ko…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 02:11PMBECKET - Choreographer Zoe Scofield and visual artist Juniper Shuey are young people with big visions, necessary and hopeful ingredients for the future of any field. At Jacob’s Pillow,…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:29PMIt’s often thought that dance is a young person’s field, but this is only partly so: Louise Lecavalier, who danced with Édouard Lock’s company La La La Human Steps for nea…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:43PMBECKET - In the past decade-plus, audiences worldwide have stood in awe as a tidal wave of prodigiously talented ballet dancers has streamed from Cuba. This week, with the US debut of DanzAb…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:17PMBECKET - Through the irresistible metaphor of the puppetmaster and his creation, the choreographer Crystal Pite explores nothing less than life, death, and what happens in between in her eve…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:43AMO Barbie! My Barbie! That revered and reviled icon of anatomic impossibility is the star (sort of) of the 2011 dance theater piece “Beauty,’’ which is being presented by Ja…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:32PMBECKET - The title is ugly, the unsmiling dancers move in strangulated awkwardness, the mood is decidedly aggressive if not hostile. Yet Sharon Eyal’s dance “Killer Pig,’…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:47PMBECKET — In dance, a good laugh is hard to find. Too much absurdity, and a dance falls apart; too much cynicism and a dance loses its truth. Larry Keigwin, whose Keigwin + Company is p…
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