Dear Readers, I launched Point of Contact on October 16, 2013 as a way to supplement and practice my dance writing for a course I was taking in Barnard College’s Dance Department. My original goal was to create a virtual record of my experience as an audience member, but after seeing hundreds of performances, work-in-progress showings,…
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…
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…
Alastair Macaulay, the chief dance critic at the New York Times, is one of (if not the) most notorious dance writers working today. He’s a critic the “downtown dance” scene loves to hate, and indeed, he has said some dicey things about dancers in the past (like when he criticized NYCB dancer Jenifer Ringer’s weight…
