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Complexions Contemporary Ballet is still thrashing, spinning and kicking along its merry way.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Throughout “Prima,” the latest collaboration by the Israeli artists Lee Sher and Saar Harari, the line between violence and sexuality is cynically blurred.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Ishmael Houston-Jones and Dan Safer’s shared evening, “Splice: Panic Journals,” was highlighted by their collaborations, beer and Johnny Cash.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Britain’s Royal Ballet presented a new work by Wayne McGregor in London on Tuesday night.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
A Wednesday night performance at Dance Theater Workshop, part of Performa 09, included a reinterpretation of Anna Halprin’s seminal 1965 work “Parades & Changes.”
The Collaborative Piano Blog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
For the second year in a row, here is the complete schedule for the Tanglewood Festival , released one minute after the end of the press embargo. These listings are taken directly from the press release, with only some minor formatting changes made to the original text. The Mahler Symphonyies # 2 and 3 look to be season highlights, but I always have a soft spot for programs like Audra MacDonald's New...
NYtheatre.com (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Presented by LeeSaar The Company in a vast performance venue at Performance Space 122, Prima features four lithe and distinctly modern female dancers in a 45-minute presentation that combines elements of ballet and jazz with krump, rave, and dance styles of an indefinable nature. The choreography is attributed to Lee Sher and Saar Harari, yet a highly organic aesthetic suggests a more collaborative...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
In “Really Real” Mr. Cardona features six core dancers to convey the idea of an individual trapped in a collective.
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
"Rita Marcalo has stopped taking her medication ahead of the event at The Bradford Playhouse, which the audience will be invited to film. Arts Council England, which is funding the performance, said it aimed to raise awareness about the condition." An epilepsy charity has "urged Ms Marcalo to reconsider the event."...
I'll think of something later (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Oh, the mainstream ballet world: don't you despair of its innate conservatism, the genteel brides (and queens) of dance who cry horror at anything seen onstage which couldn't have appeared before 1950? Now that a DVD release has made revisiting the Royal Ballet's controversial Maria Bjornson-designed Sleeping Beauty of the early 1990s possible, it makes me very angry to see how little the dancers had...
Mercury News (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
'In dance, if you make it six months you deserve an award,' says dancer-choreographer Dennis Nahat, known for hits such as 'Blue Suede Shoes.' 'Now we're at the point where people who saw our 'Nutcracker' as children are coming back to see it with their own children.'
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
On Tuesday night, as part of Performa 09, Deborah Hay and Yvonne Rainer split a bill at the Baryshnikov Arts Center.
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
"Nothing. (laughter) No, it was a joke in the dressing rooms at Judson. We were all naming categories of visual art practitioners and someone said, 'We were doing postmodern dance at Judson.' We all cracked up and no one countered us."...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
In the Royal Ballet’s production of “The Sleeping Beauty” at Covent Garden on Monday, Tamara Rojo offered a technically sensational execution of the Rose Adagio.
Curbed (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
"> " style="font-size: 9px; text-align: center;"> Click the image above to view the full photogallery. No wonder they're flying high at Lincoln Center: The 2,544-seat David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center has re-opened after a full renovation of the original 1964 Philip Johnson/John Burgee building. The interior work, by JCJ Architecture , was funded in major part by, yes,...
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mlatimer | 03/10/2009
(March 10, 2009, Denver, CO) Choreographer Kristin McQuaid has a resume that includes work with stars such as Britney Spears, Prince, and Mandy Moore, as well as national commercials for Dr. Pepper, Jack in the Box, and Pepsi, as well as countless hours logged working in film and television. In her interview with JigTV.com, Kristen tells host Chelsea Latimer what it has taken to develop her impressive...
mlatimer | 03/10/2009
(March 5, 2009—Denver, CO) Taking some time from his busy schedule of working with professional musicians and dancers, choreographer Tony Testa sat down to talk with JigTV.com about his career, which started at the young age of 14. Since then he has performed with the likes of Aaron Carter, Janet Jackson, and Britney Spears. As part of JigTV's professional dancer interviews , Tony talked about how...
mlatimer | 02/24/2009
Master dance choreographer, Nick Lazzarini speaks with JigTV.com about his life as a professional dancer and offers pointers to aspiring dancers. As part of it's series of interviews with dancers, the social dance site JigTV.com spoke with choreographer Nick Lazzarini in New York City, where he's been teaching for Jump The Alternative Dance Convention. You may remember Nick as the winner of the very...
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