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Dance Review | Lee Sher and Saar Harari: Seeking New Sensations

There are four prima dancers or, at times, prima donnas in the latest collaboration by the Israeli artists Lee Sher and Saar Harari. At the start of “Prima,” performed at Performance Space 122 on Thursday, Hsin-Yi Hsiang arched her back and pressed her ...

From GIA KOURLAS, The New York Times,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Saar Harari,  Lee Sher

Dance Review | Complexions Contemporary Ballet: Supple Limbs in a Sea of Energy

Back when Complexions Contemporary Ballet was known as Complexions A Concept in Dance, it wasn’t a given that the troupe would last. Now, 15 years later, the company, formed by Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson, two former Alvin Ailey dancers, is ...

From GIA KOURLAS, The New York Times,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Alvin Ailey,  Joyce Theater,  Patrick Swayze (musician),  Steve Reich,  Hans Zimmer

Dance Review: Israeli Choreographers Celebrate the Virtues of Awkwardness

There are four prima dancers or, at times, prima donnas in the latest collaboration by the Israeli artists Lee Sher and Saar Harari. At the start of “Prima,” performed at Performance Space 122 on Thursday night, Hsin-Yi Hsiang arched her back and ...

From GIA KOURLAS, The New York Times,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Lee Sher,  Saar Harari

A Dancer’s Fresh Move: Choreographer

The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia extravaganzas and much more. Join the discussion. Mr. Martins, the artistic director of the school and the ballet master of New York City Ballet, was jovial as he ticked off ...

From GIA KOURLAS, The New York Times,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York City Ballet,  Ellen Page,  George Balanchine,  Christopher Wheeldon

Dance Review | Wally Cardona: A People-Oriented Piece, Featuring Kierkegaard

Wally Cardona refers to “Really Real,” a new work performed on Tuesday night at the Harvey Theater of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, as his people piece. Yet while there are many bodies in it, the idea mainly speaks to what is absent. In recent years ...

From GIA KOURLAS, The New York Times,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Wally Cardona,  Brooklyn Academy of Music

Dance Review | Trisha Brown Dance Company: Dance and Art Play Off Each Other

BEACON, N.Y. For the past two years the Merce Cunningham Dance Company graced the galleries of Dia:Beacon here, where the site-specific Beacon Events series was born. Now the torch has been passed to the Trisha Brown Dance Company, which, over the ...

From GIA KOURLAS, The New York Times,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Merce Cunningham,  Grateful Dead,  Gerhard Richter

Dance Review | Maria Hassabi: Playing Connect the Dots, From Aphrodite to Lil’ Kim

In “SoloShow,” the second half of a diptych of solos, the choreographer Maria Hassabi plays with contrasting viewpoints so subtly that at first it’s difficult to see what has changed since the first piece. There are some cosmetic alterations: instead ...

From GIA KOURLAS, The New York Times,  13 Nov 2009

Dance Review | Tere O’Connor: Exploring the Softer Side of a Choreographer’s Skills

Tere O’Connor is a master of the quick fade, in which emotions and movement bubble up and vanish with little warning. In his dense choreography, transitions defy logic, meaning is made purposely hazy, and the art of subterfuge is omnipresent. As his ...

From GIA KOURLAS, The New York Times,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Dance Theater Workshop,  James Baker,  Samuel Beckett

Dance Review | 'Dancing With the Berlin Wall': Dancing in the Streets to Celebrate a Toppling

Twenty years ago on Monday, the Berlin Wall fell, but it wasn’t only world leaders who celebrated the anniversary of its demise. The choreographer Nejla Y. Yatkin, a native of that city, offered her own site-specific homage, “Dancing With the Berlin ...

From GIA KOURLAS, The New York Times,  10 Nov 2009

Dance Review | Nancy Garcia and Chase Granoff: Looking Back, and Taking It Forward

Nancy Garcia and Chase Granoff take historical references seriously in two new works being performed at the Kitchen. Ms. Garcia’s “I need more” finds context in noise rock, while Mr. Granoff’s “Art of Making Dances” is more blatant, evoking the ...

From GIA KOURLAS, The New York Times,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Doris Humphrey,  Jean-Luc Godard,  Kate Bush

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