New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
“Serenade/The Proposition” reaffirms Bill T. Jones’s gift for creating powerful theater but reveals little of sustained choreographic interest.
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
"Lincoln was the only white man I was allowed to love unconditionally growing up. But he was also hiding in plain sight. Sure, he's on the $5 bill. But who is he? There's George Washington and Ben Franklin too, connections from third-grade social studies class … But as an adult, what does this man Lincoln have to do with me?"...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 09/20/2009
At the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, Ill., the choreographer Bill T. Jones presented a new dance piece based on the life and career of Abraham Lincoln.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 09/05/2009
Mr. Jones has undertaken one of the most ambitious and challenging projects of his career: a commission to create a work celebrating the bicentennial of Lincoln’s birth.
Swan Lake Samba Girl (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Last night at Barnes & Noble, Lincoln Square, Mikhail Baryshnikov talked briefly with New Yorker dance critic Joan Acocella about his new book of photos of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Merce My Way. (I love the title, by the way). The talk was brief (about half an hour) but pretty good. But, honestly, I had [...]
Swan Lake Samba Girl (Free subscription) | 03/08/2009
Please excuse the blurry photo; I took it on the escalator last night at Barnes and Noble, where I went after Paul Taylor (review soon!) Thankfully I decided to visit the bookstore; I hadn’t known about this, even though I’m on B&N’s events mailing list… So, this Tuesday, March 10th, Joan Acocella (New Yorker dance critic) [...]
TREND HUNTER Magazine (Free subscription) | 02/19/2009
(TrendHunter.com) It seems everyone caught a bit of Abraham Lincoln fever this winter; everyone from historians, to political figures, to artists, to authors is obsessed with the 16th president. Not that anyone’s complaining;…
Whatsonstage.com (Free subscription) | 02/18/2009
As previously tipped (See The Goss::E8831234876478, 16 Feb 2009), the UK premiere production of the Tony Award-winning Broadway hit Spring Awakening::E8831233740708 will transfer directly to the West End’s Novello Theatre following i...
Whatsonstage.com (Free subscription) | 02/17/2009
In a last-minute change to the programme for our Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers' Choice Awards Concert on Sunday, the company of Spring Awakening::E8831233740708 was unable to perform for production reasons – a withdrawal that drew groans of disa...
University of Chicago News Office (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Renowned performance artist and activist Guillermo Gomez-Pena will denounce anti-immigration hysteria and assault the demonized construction of the U.S. Mexican border when he presents his newest solo show, "El Mexorcist 4: An Evening of Spoken Word Roulette" at 7: ...
Whatsonstage.com (Free subscription) | 02/06/2009
Broadway transfer Spring Awakening has announced an extended run at the Lyric Hammersmith, where it opened to strong reviews on Tuesday (See Review Round-up::E8831233856891, 5 Feb 2009). The alt-rock musical, which is based on Frank W...
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 01/19/2009
The Limon Dance Company, celebrating the 100th anniversary of Jose Limon's birth, brought his distinctively heroic take on life to the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theater Friday and Saturday.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
Once you've witnesses dancers of the caliber of Zane Booker, Bill T. Jones, Desmond Richardson, Paule Turner, Charles Anderson, and the magnificent men of companies like Philadanco, Alvin Ailey and Senegal's Compagnie Jant-Bi, such slight fare as the choreography and skill offered in The Determining Factor ranks low.
New York Post (Free subscription) | 11/23/2008
THE historic election of Barack Obama came at a good time for Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and Elvis Mitchell, who photographed and interviewed a number of prominent African-Americans about overcoming the racial divide for an HBO documentary, "The...
Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn (Free subscription) | 11/21/2008
The Black List Project, a collaboration between photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and cultural critic, Elvis Mitchell, opened yesterday on the first floor of the Brooklyn Museum. Striking. Housed in an intimate, square exhibition space within the voluminous first floor space, are 25 large-scale color portraits of wide-range of subjects from the world of politics, arts, sports, religion and business...
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