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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 [...]
Read more...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 [...]
Read more...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 that does not [...]
Read more...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 [...]
Read more...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 [...]
Read more...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 [...]
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