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…
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…
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…
For many of the dance concerts that go up in NYC, it’s a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it kind of deal. One weekend, three shows, and if you weren’t there, you’re out of luck. To prevent the inevitable heartbreak that comes with realizing you missed that guest curator at Danspace or that cool new company at the Joyce, check…
Welcome to Point of Contact, my first foray into online dance criticism and commentary. The title of this site comes from a term used in Contact Improvisation, a dance form developed in the early 1970s by Steve Paxton that utilizes shared weight between bodies as the impetus for exploring movement. A “point of contact” is…
Point of Contact 