DESH – U.S. premiere Performed Nov. 6-7, 2013 Rose Theater at Lincoln Center The curtain rises on a darkly lit stage. Carrying a lantern, the dancer, Akram Khan, makes his way to downstage center to kneel at the base of small mound, resembling the packed earth around a growing seed. Grabbing the large hammer at…
With the fall dance season well underway, nearly every venue imaginable has a show up these next few weekends. In addition to Akram Khan’s solo DESH at the White Light Festival at Lincoln Center, Alexei Ratmansky’s The Tempest for ABT, Big Dance Theater at NYLA, and Ballet Preljocaj at BAM, here are a few more shows worth checking out…
November is perhaps the busiest month for many dance companies and theaters, and consequently, one of the best times to see dance. Fall Seasons are already in full swing at the bigger players (The Joyce, City Center, David H. Koch Theater, and BAM, to name a few), but that’s not a free pass to forsake…
November is almost here, which means it’s primetime for many companies to present their Fall Season programs. In this final push to the 2013 finish line, start looking for some big names (Alvin Ailey, Mark Morris, Complexions) performing all around the city, as well as many smaller curations giving their winter concerts. Here’s what I’m…
In the second installment of the three-week project Musée de la danse – Three Collective Gestures, French choreographer and Musée curator Boris Charmatz and his cast of 24 dancers took over the second floor atrium at the Museum of Modern Art this weekend to present Charmatz’s Levée des conflits extended/Suspension of Conflicts Extended. A “durational…
Considering the many limitations of ice dancing as a discipline in terms of venue, structure, and movement, an evening-length concert of ice dancing routines runs the risk of becoming repetitive. Stylistically speaking, ice dancing almost always looks fluid and graceful, but this is necessarily the case when you consider the execution of this movement depends…
If you’ve been out of the loop for a while, use this week’s performance offerings as a quick refresher of who’s who in the dance scene. In addition to many NYC-based dancers giving shows, multiple touring companies – both national and international – converge upon New York this weekend (Houston Ballet at the Joyce, Matthew…
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