PlaybillArts.com (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
An affectionate and exhilarating tribute to the very art form of classical dance, Etudes begins performances June 3 as part of the Twyla Tharp program.
Off Center (Free subscription) | yesterday
Scores of local dancemakers chart their creative and career paths through the Walker’s Choreographers’ Evening. Still, for every choreographer invited in each year, a handful receive warm letters, weeks after auditioning, inviting them to try next time around. Two of those choreographers — Lisa Conlin and Julie Warder — responded by launching a choreographers’ evening [...]
Wheelchair Dancer (Free subscription) | yesterday
In which I make a scene and embarrass my friends. I don't know why this one got to me. After all, it's not as if there aren't a fair number of inaccessible places in San Francisco, but it did. Two friends and I are shopping on Union Street in San Francisco; we've seen and bought some great stuff -- including the perfect wheelchair winter skirt (seen, not purchased -- too expensive). We pass Shaw Shoes...
Denver Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
The choreographer calls it a warm-up. For most people it would be 45 minutes of self- torture. The cast of "A Chorus Line" is used to it.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Part contortionist, part visionary, part poet, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui is not most people's idea of a dancer-choreographer. He's not most people's idea of a Belgian either. Born to a Flemish mother and Moroccan father, his name means "Mr Arab from the East", though his pale, northern, elfin looks make you wonder what his parents were thinking.
Wheelchair Dancer (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
This is a quickie: we have rehearsal this am. Saturday! AM? So, I am on the phone yakking with a friend. And she says, casually, that the reason that she didn't have an epidural for either of her kids was that she feared for her spinal cord and the ensuing disabled life. I have a hard time figuring this out. The practical me: I thought epidurals were pretty much come and go. As routine as, say, a spinal...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
As the film and narration end, Mr. Ouramdane — barefoot, hooded, wearing jeans and a vest — is left on his own. The first dance he does, very slow and simple, would not seem a dance at all, or interestingly expressive, were it not for the sustained legato current and the riveting physical control with which he phrases it. Mainly keeping his eyes closed, he lies down, rolls over, sits...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
On Thursday at Symphony Space, American Repertory Ballet offered a pair of Twyla Tharp works, including the delicious “Sinatra Suite.”
New York Times (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Luis Lara Malvacías, a choreographer, dancer and visual artist, has clearly spent a lot of time thinking about the set for his new dance, “Reason Without Meaning.” His installation even spills into the audience at the Kitchen, where the back of every other chair is covered with a slice of bubble wrap. A black piece of cardboard with a message reading “X caution” is placed on the same...
Entertainment Tonight (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
She rocks out for an hour to support a good cause. WHITNEY HOUSTON hit the stage in London Thursday night, delivering a favorites-filled set and helping raise money for charity. Decked out in Chopard diamond earrings and a diamond ring, Whitney dazzled an arena of fans with hits like "I Wanna Dance with Somebody," "Saving All My Love" and "I Will Always Love You." The big surprise of...
Express & Echo (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Performers from an exciting new production at Exeter Northcott will also put on a special performance in the city centre tomorrow.The Chickenshed dance company is putting on As The Mother of a Brown Boy at the theatre, but in the morning will also perform 15- minute excerpts from the show at the corner of Roman Walk and Bedford Street in Princesshay Shopping Centre at 10.30am and 11am.Organisers...
Entertainment Tonight (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
DONNA SUMMER is releasing Crayons , her first album of all-new material in 17 years, on May 20, and the legendary former disco queen sat down exclusively with our own MARY HART in the music studio to deliver the 411! The "Hot Stuff" and "Last Dance" singer -- who will perform live on the ET stage on Tuesday, May 20 -- gets candid about her private problems early in her career, struggling...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
The newest production by Gotham Chamber Opera brings a heroine to a place where madness engulfs her in “Ariadne Unhinged.”
PlaybillArts.com (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Michael Crabb profiles James Kudelka, the choreographer who never does anything twice. His Little Dancer is featured in a 3-part program that begins performances May 22.
About Last Night (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Jerome Robbins is all over the place these days. New York City Ballet is presenting a month-long Robbins Celebration at...
