While NYC takes a break from big ballets (both NYCB and ABT have finished their fall performances), spend the next few weeks catching up with some of the city’s most exciting modern and experimental companies, both emerging and established, before we’re once again bombarded with the inevitable late-November ritual of Nutcracker advertising on our subway…
And then, one thousand years of peace Ballet Preljocaj Performed Nov. 7-9, 2013 Howard Gilman Opera House, Brooklyn Academy of Music Heavy chains falling from the sky, costumes made from the flags of the world, and live sheep on the stage – how often does a dance work include all three? In Angelin Preljocaj’s And…
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…
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