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…
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…
Saturday, Oct. 19th, 2013 Brooklyn Academy of Music For those (myself included) who are used to seeing dance concerts built in the now typical repertory program structure of two or three shorter works per evening, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker’s Cesena might be a bit like marathon dance-viewing. Clocking in at nearly two hours without an…
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