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Dance Review | Paul Taylor Dance Company: Out of the Nursery, Movements of Desire and Narcissism

SYRACUSE Nothing about dance is more mysterious than the diversity of ways in which it can connect with music. Paul Taylor’s latest work is set to Debussy’s “Children’s Corner.” But its characters aren’t children, and its stage incidents have nothing ...

From ALASTAIR MACAULAY, The New York Times,  8 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Paul Taylor

Dance: Light, Birds, Action! Cunningham and Company in Rehearsal

Most of the dancers in the ballet paintings of Degas aren’t dancing. They’re stretching, resting, recovering, waiting, watching; and in several paintings there is a white-haired old man in charge, a ballet master whose name, Jules Perrot, remains ...

From ALASTAIR MACAULAY, The New York Times,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ford Motor Company,  Merce Cunningham,  Fred Astaire

Dance Review | Merce Cunningham: A Master’s Magic, Irretrievable Yet Recreated

It is three months since the choreographer Merce Cunningham died. On Wednesday at 4 p.m. the Park Avenue Armory opened its doors for a five-hour program of dance and music to commemorate his work. Hundreds had already arrived before 4; many more kept ...

From ALASTAIR MACAULAY, The New York Times,  29 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Merce Cunningham,  John Cage,  Erik Satie

Dance Review | Danspace Project: A Flicker of Moods, Prayerful to Merry

As Douglas Dunn’s “Sky Eye” (1989) starts, six dancers, dressed in cloaks with hoods over their heads, are walking quietly and contemplatively, to music from André Campra’s “Messe de Requiem”; a cloistered community, or pilgrims, around vespers. An ...

From ALASTAIR MACAULAY, The New York Times,  2 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Douglas Dunn,  Merce Cunningham

Dance Review: Riviera Nights and Quirky Afternoons

Choreographic modernism, in both ballet and modern dance, was the unstated theme of the Fall for Dance festival’s Program 4 at City Center, a rich survey. The highlights on Wednesday were Bronislava Nijinska’s “Biches” (1924), Jerome Robbins’s “Four ...

From ALASTAIR MACAULAY, The New York Times,  1 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Mark Morris,  Jerome Robbins,  Frederick Ashton,  The Fall (musician),  Lou Harrison

Dance Review | Fall for Dance: Men in Drag, Jetés by Puppets and Mime to James Brown

Of this year’s five Fall for Dance programs at New York City Center, the third proved the lightest and funniest to date and, as a complete program, much the best. The range demonstrated by the four works on Saturday was remarkable, as if the ...

From ALASTAIR MACAULAY, The New York Times,  27 Sep 2009

Francis Mason, Voice for Dance Over 5 Decades, Dies at 88

Francis Mason, editor, writer, cultural diplomat, radio dance critic and dance devotee, died on Thursday at his home in Rye, N.Y. He was 88. The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia extravaganzas and much more. ...

From ALASTAIR MACAULAY, The New York Times,  27 Sep 2009

Related Topics: George Balanchine,  Martha Graham,  Lincoln Kirstein,  Igor Stravinsky

Dance Review | Fall for Dance: Sparks Often Appear in a Tango’s Dark Tone

Is there anything the Fall for Dance audience doesn’t love? On Thursday night it cheered to the rafters all four items of the second of the festival’s five programs at City Center. Two of the performances struck me as horrid, but though this is ...

From ALASTAIR MACAULAY, The New York Times,  25 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Martha Graham,  Natalia (musician),  Alvin Ailey,  Christopher Wheeldon

Dance Review | Fall for Dance: Sure Sign of Autumn: A Fling at History

The audience was near fever pitch throughout Tuesday evening at City Center for the first night of the annual Fall for Dance programs. Even by New York standards the noise level in the lobbies was high. When the pauses in either half grew longer than ...

From ALASTAIR MACAULAY, The New York Times,  23 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Edward Villella,  Paul Taylor,  Michel Fokine,  Rudolf Nureyev,  Savion Glover

Dance Review: One Piece (Composed by Steve Reich) and Two Visions

The Works & Process series at the Guggenheim Museum is seldom reviewable: the events tend to consist of lecture-demonstrations that give us a backstage view of performance. But it has become a valuable part of New York’s dance life, doing plenty to ...

From ALASTAIR MACAULAY, The New York Times,  14 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Steve Reich,  Guggenheim Museum

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