The 10th anniversary of the REVERBdance Festival was held this past weekend, for the fifth year in a row at the Baruch Performing Arts Center. The ten artists selected for this year’s second program made for an interesting, if somewhat lacking in div …Read more
In a display of the growing trend towards the old ballet guard meeting the new, BalletCollective’s Invisible Divide at the NYU Skirball Center was exactly that. A blurring of the lines between classical and contemporary. Concrete and abstract. Rather …Read more
Good art serves as an escape, great art serves as a mirror into our own world. Donald Byrd’s scathing The Minstrel Show Revisited should be listed under the second category. Using a troupe of extremely talented dancers, Mr. Byrd has choreographed a d …Read more
H.T. Chen and Dancers presented the New York premiere of South of Gold Mountain, October 15-18 at New York Live Arts. The dance documentary uses audio recordings, projected historical photographs, and Chinese and Delta blues music to accompany a cont …Read more
Eryc Taylor Dance premiered its new program, The Exhibit, on October 15. Fresh in from a presentation at the International Dance Festival Avant Garde in Mexico, the new program held moments of brilliance by very strong dancers, couched in what turned …Read more
The 12th annual Fall for Dance Festival ran from September 30 – October 11, 2015, with five programs filled with emerging and established artists alike. The performance on Friday, October 9, featured four works, from the Nrityagram Dance Ensemble, Sa …Read more
Match-Play, a collaboration of choreographer Deborah Hay and Austin-based theater collective Rude Mechs, debuted this week at New York Live Arts. In this theatrical reimagination of Hay’s 2004 Bessie Award-winning dance, The Match, Hay, in concert wi …Read more
Cinderella is glittering from head to toe; her fairy godmother approaches, looking like she wants to take a juicy bite out of the younger girl. Homoeroticism abounds – Rodgers and Hammerstein this is not. Company XIV’s Cinderella is a wild party comp …Read more
New York City Center’s annual Fall For Dance Festival, which began on September 30, features works by twenty companies over ten days. The stage is, by default, set for variety, and in this year’s second program, there was certainly no shortage of tha …Read more
Theaterlab’s Wildwood Flowers, created and choreographed by Reut Shemesh, is a gripping, edgy, and evocative movement piece. This piece, which premiered in Cologne earlier this year, has now been reimagined by Shemesh with New York performers, trying …Read more
