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Dance Review | Ishmael Houston-Jones and Dan Safer: Beer-Guzzling Bravado With a Tender Touch

Here’s a thought: What if the artists on future split bills were required to collaborate? If they couldn’t come up with something at least as interesting as what Ishmael Houston-Jones and Dan Safer managed on Thursday at Dance New Amsterdam, bye-bye ...

From CLAUDIA LA ROCCO, The New York Times,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ishmael Houston-Jones,  Dan Safer,  Dance New Amsterdam,  Johnny Cash,  Jodie Foster

Performance Club: The Bolshoi Goes Lady Gaga

Well, really, I think this speaks for itself: Yes, that is Lady Gaga. And, yes, those are dancers from the Bolshoi Ballet. The two cultural, er, institutions joined forces earlier this month in Francesco Vezzoli’s “Ballets Russes Italian Style (The ...

From CLAUDIA LA ROCCO, WNYC | New York Public Radio,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ballets Russes,  MTV

Dance Review: Matching Wits and Bodies (and Drinking Beer in Between)

Here’s a thought: what if the artists on future split bills were required to collaborate? If they couldn’t come up with something at least as interesting as what Ishmael Houston-Jones and Dan Safer managed on Thursday night at Dance New Amsterdam, ...

From CLAUDIA LA ROCCO, The New York Times,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ishmael Houston-Jones,  Dan Safer,  Dance New Amsterdam,  Johnny Cash,  Jodie Foster

Dance Review | Anna Halprin, Morton Subotnick, Anne Collod and friends: Flashback to the ’60s, With Clothes and Without

It’s a funny thing, restaging a historical work that was meant in its time always to change: which “original” do you revisit? The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia extravaganzas and much more. Join the discussion. ...

From CLAUDIA LA ROCCO, The New York Times,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Dance Theater Workshop,  Performa,  Petula Clark

Dance Review: Sharing History and a Stage

True artists tend to follow their own internal systems. But there is something to be said about being of the same generation, which often prompts a certain kinship of values and ideas. The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, ...

From CLAUDIA LA ROCCO, The New York Times,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Deborah Hay,  Yvonne Rainer,  Baryshnikov Arts Center,  Performa,  Judson Dance Theater

Performance Club: Ohhh, Those Wild and Crazy “Romanians”

Stein wrote this as a critique of conventional drama. But it can also be a critique of audience members, no? I found that the moments when I was impatient with “Cycatrix” were mostly the moments when I wanted to linger where it had just been, or ...

From CLAUDIA LA ROCCO, WNYC | New York Public Radio,  17 Nov 2009

Dance Review | Keren Cytter: Changing Sex With a Step, a Wink and a Video

There are times when a money-back guarantee for a new show would seem not so much a philistine idea as a vital safeguard. It wouldn’t apply to artists whose risks don’t pan out; audiences have to take risks, too, if they are interested in following an ...

From CLAUDIA LA ROCCO, The New York Times,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Keren Cytter,  Performa

Dance Review | Janis Brenner: Invoking Departed Friends and the Flights They Took

Ulysses Dove, Rudolf Nureyev, Arnie Zane: these names and others fill a page in the program for Janis Brenner’s “5 Decades” show, which opened on Thursday night at the Joyce SoHo. And this list accounts for just a very few of the choreographers and ...

From CLAUDIA LA ROCCO, The New York Times,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Joyce SoHo,  Ulysses Dove,  Rudolf Nureyev,  Jamie James,  Meredith Monk

Provocateur at Home, a Monarch Abroad

WHEN the American choreographer D D Dorvillier told her mother about an exciting new job she had taken in France, working with Anne Collod and a cast of European choreographers to revisit Anna Halprin’s seminal 1965 dance, “Parades & Changes,” her ...

From CLAUDIA LA ROCCO, The New York Times,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Anna Halprin,  Dance Theater Workshop,  Yvonne Rainer,  Judson Dance Theater,  Raimund Hoghe

Performance Club: The Idiot Savant

One of the fascinating things about watching groundbreaking artists age is observing the ways in which those who once agitated for – and delivered – the greatest change almost always settle into comfortable patterns themselves. As with politics so with ...

From CLAUDIA LA ROCCO, WNYC | New York Public Radio,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Willem Dafoe,  Robert Wilson,  Merce Cunningham,  Elina Lowensohn,  Anne Bogart

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