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Joe Goode Review
Joe Goode: Signature or Formulaic?
Sunday, May 3, 2009 at 12:43am
Joe Goode Performance Group danced at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center on May 1-2, 2009 and presented excerpts from his 1996 piece Maverick and the area premiere of Wonderboy. Based in San Francisco, Goode has been exploring and showcasing movement theater works that incorporate [...]
Paul Taylor Review
Paul Taylor: Speaking in Code
Monday, March 30, 2009 at 11:21pm
Paul Taylor dance company presented three newer works for their Kennedy Center program including “De Suenos,” “De Suenos Que Se Repiten,” and “Beloved Renegade,” his tribute to Walt Whitman. The program showed a breadth of Taylor’s strengths from his quirky dark side to his most [...]
Bill T Jones Review
Bill T Jones: Answering the call, throwing down the gauntlet
Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at 11:14am
It is humbling to watch genius unfold itself. And that is the what the masterful artist (not just choreographer) Bill T. Jones does. He allows the best effort unfold in each one of his multi-talented collaborators. The Bill T. Jones/Arnie [...]
Nrityagram Review
The Legacy Continues
Friday, March 20, 2009 at 5:09pm
Nrityagram took the stage at Strathmore tonight, and from the opening invocation to the closing celebration it was a study in subtlety and perfection. The company lives in a modern day ashram setting where they devote their lives to dance, music and literature. The dancers displayed a [...]
Abou Lagaraa Review
Allegoria Stanza falls short
Tuesday, March 3, 2009 at 11:05pm
Abou Lagaraa presented his France based dance company in Allegoria Stanza this evening at the Kennedy Center as part of the Arts Arabesques Festival. Lagraa uses hip-hop, and contemporary movement in this evening length production and attempts to show a crossing of boundaries through these styles.
The [...]
ABT Review
ABT: Mixed bag of performances
Sunday, February 22, 2009 at 10:16pm
Last night’s mixed repertory program at the Kennedy Center by American Ballet Theater was uneven but thankfully saved by the genius of Tudor’s work. The program featured Allegro Brillante by Balanchine, Flames of Paris by Vainonen, Pillar of Fire by Tudor and Brief Fling by [...]
David Roussève Review
David Roussève’s Saudade
Saturday, February 7, 2009 at 12:27am
Saudade differs from nostalgia in that whereas nostalgia involves a mixed happy and sad feeling for the lost memories, saudade involves the hope that what is being longed for might return. Saudade has been described as a “vague and constant desire for something [...]
Mark Morris Review
Pretty pretty Mark Morris
Friday, January 30, 2009 at 12:10am
Kennedy Center, Washington DC,
The Mark Morris concert of Mozart Dances was full of pretty movement, pretty dancers with pretty bodies, pretty costumes and pretty sets. And lest you forget for one second, his concerts ALWAYS have pretty music. And it is all very pretty (in case you [...]
Rama Vaidyanathan Review
Rediscovering Curves in Bharata Natyam–Rama Vaidyanathan
Friday, January 2, 2009 at 12:30am
A reflection on Rama Vaidyanathan’s performance at Kalakshetra on Dec 22, 2008.
At the outset, I would like to explain that I am not a dance scholar, a critic, or a writer. This is simply a personal reflection and nothing more.
One of my highlights of the [...]
Khalid Benghrib Review
Cie2k_far: This so called life
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 at 11:19pm
Moroccan choreographer Khalid Benghrib’s work “THE SMALA B.B.” was part commentary on the absurdity of life, and part picture book collections of the starkly beautiful juxtaposed with the dark side of human nature. The evening’s work was a dance theater presentation by five men in [...]
