Performed Friday, June 12, 2015 Choreographed by Anna Sperber Gibney Dance’s Agnes Varis Performance Center New York, NY It’s no secret that dance and architecture are inextricably linked. Dance relies on performance spaces in order to exist in the public record, and religious leaders, royal families, and city planners alike have spent years (and millions…
Performed Wednesday, May 13, 2015 Gibney Dance Company Gibney Dance’s Agnes Varis Performance Center New York, NY It was an evening of firsts for the Gibney Dance Company. The five-member group, which is the Resident Company of Artistic Director and CEO Gina Gibney’s newly expanded (and beautifully realized) downtown dance hub, inaugurated its first…
Performed May 6, 2015 Choreography by Marjani Forté Gibney Dance’s Agnes Varis Performance Center New York, NY Where to begin recounting Marjani Forté’s being Here…/this time, the last chapter in a three year series of dance works exploring the nexus of racism and public drug policy? It is undeniably heavy stuff – it’s doubtable that…
The Median Movement Performed April 15, 2015 GAP Presents! at The Green Building Brooklyn, NY In a place like the Green Building, it’s hard not to think about the transformation of space. Tucked away on the upper bank of the Gowanus Canal, this former brass foundry has found new life as a performance venue with…
Ori Flomin, choreographer Performed March 11, 2015 Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center New York, NY A lot can happen to a dancer over the course of 20 years. Physically speaking, the personal narrative is, for most, an amalgam of classes, auditions, rehearsals, and performances. Emotionally speaking, there is no requisite story – passion…
Out of the hundreds of tweets that flood my Twitter feed daily, I was lucky enough last Wednesday afternoon to catch a 140-character dance battle developing before my eyes. The exchange, between venerable New York City-based dance critic Claudia La Rocco, student blogger Alexandra Villarreal, and eventually, Katherine Brooks, Senior Arts & Culture Editor of…
Mark Morris Dance Group, with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Chorale Performed Saturday, August 9, 2014 David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center New York, NY As one of the truest stalwarts American concert dance, there’s not much Mark Morris can’t do, or perhaps at this point, hasn’t done. From directing operas around the world to…
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