Articles Written by:    JENNIFER DUNNING     

Dance Review | Akram Khan Company: A World of Dancers, Stranded in a Transportation Limbo

The ingredients are many and complex in “bahok,” presented by the Akram Khan Company on Wednesday night at City Center. One of two premieres by Mr. Khan being performed during the troupe’s week at City Center, the piece features dancers from six ...

From JENNIFER DUNNING, The New York Times,  24 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Peter Brook

Dance Review | Out of Space@BRICstudio: When 5 Experimentalists Just Say No to Moving

Dance seems to have entered into post-postmodernism, to judge by recent programs that include the five dance and performance art pieces presented Friday night by the Danspace Project’s Out of Space@BRICstudio in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Dawn Springer, ...

From JENNIFER DUNNING, The New York Times,  21 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Kate Chopin

Dance Review: Boyish High Jinks, Supple and Subdued

Think warmer and fuzzier Pilobolus and you have Horse, a charming and imaginative young all-male dance troupe from Taiwan that performed on Wednesday night at the Joyce Theater as part of Eliot Feld’s Ballet Tech season there. Horse, founded in 2004 ...

From JENNIFER DUNNING, The New York Times,  17 Apr 2008
Related Topics: John Cage,  Michael Gordon

Dance Review: Fresh, Inventive Partnering, Spinning Full Throttle

Ballet Builders was established in 1990 by Ruth Chester and Michael Kraus to present dances by choreographers interested in working with the classical ballet canon. Of the six choreographers presented by Ballet Builders on Saturday night at Kaye ...

From JENNIFER DUNNING, The New York Times,  14 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Philip Glass,  Christopher Wheeldon

Dance Review | 'Romeo and Juliet': Rare Revival of Tudor’s Take on Young Love

Antony Tudor’s “Romeo and Juliet,” rarely performed even in excerpt, is cloaked in more perfume and mystery with every passing decade. But it was a truly magical ballet. And so we are in the debt of the New York Theater Ballet for a revival of Romeo’s ...

From JENNIFER DUNNING, The New York Times,  13 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Kenneth MacMillan

Dance Review: Challenging Dancers, Young and Older

Eliot Feld has never been an artist to do things by half-measure. And there he was, in all his vivid contrariness, on Wednesday night when his Ballet Tech and children’s companies opened a two-week engagement at the Joyce Theater. As playful, witty, ...

From JENNIFER DUNNING, The New York Times,  11 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Johann Strauss II,  Steve Reich

Kirov’s Travel Plans Exclude the Director

The Kirov Ballet begins its New York engagement on Tuesday with a program not at its usual home away from home, the Metropolitan Opera House, but at City Center for the first time. That will be the most transparent change to audiences. What they won’t ...

From JENNIFER DUNNING, The New York Times,  31 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Valery Gergiev,  George Balanchine,  William Forsythe,  Marius Petipa,  Michel Fokine

Dance Review: Drawing on the Repertory to Celebrate Teachers Past

Just about every major dance figure has passed through the Juilliard School. The founding faculty included Martha Graham, Antony Tudor and José Limón, who all began teaching in 1951 and continued into the 1970s. The school honored the three with “Dance ...

From JENNIFER DUNNING, The New York Times,  28 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Martha Graham

For Ailey Troupe, at 50, a Street and an 18-Month Tribute

There has long been an Alvin Ailey Street in Rogers, the small town in southeast Texas where Ailey was born in 1931. And now, worlds away in bustling Manhattan, West 55th Street from 9th to 10th Avenues will be named Alvin Ailey Place. That is just ...

From JENNIFER DUNNING, The New York Times,  27 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Alvin Ailey,  U.S. Congress,  Sanford I. Weill,  Wynton Marsalis,  Duke Ellington

Dance Review: Performers Minding Their N’s and Ons

Geraldine Cardiel’s “On/Off” was frustrating. The program of two premieres, seen on Friday night at Joyce SoHo, was clearly the work of an active, engaged mind. But Ms. Cardiel never burrowed far beneath the surface of her ideas. The opening dance, a ...

From JENNIFER DUNNING, The New York Times,  23 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Valero Energy

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