Dance-Enthusiast.com Features

IMPRESSIONS: [RE]DEFINING [SPACE] at Triskelion Arts

The Dance Enthusiast — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0500

"As a whole, the program invites us to experience the intersection of space and identity. Each performer offers a heartfelt investigation of their use of Triskelion’s transformative space to explore the self through reflection, determination, and freedom." Kristen Hedberg, Brooklyn

IMPRESSIONS: American Ballet Theatre in Helen Pickett's "Crime and Punishment"

The Dance Enthusiast — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0500

"The production’s driving element, however, was Herman Cornejo’s expressive performance as Raskolnikov. Cornejo makes the character’s tortured inner landscape visible and palpable. A small dancer, he moves big all night." — Lisa Jo Sagolla, New York

DANCE NEWS: New In! Robert Battle is Now Resident Choreographer of the Paul Taylor Dance Company

The Dance Enthusiast — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0500

“Robert Battle brings a wealth of talent and knowledge to Taylor. I’m deeply gratified that he accepted this position." — Michael Novak, Artistic Director of the Paul Taylor Dance Company

IMPRESSIONS: Maureen Fleming's The Alchemist's Veil at La MaMa

The Dance Enthusiast — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0500

The Alchemist’s Veil at La MaMa’s Ellen Stewart Theatre features Fleming’s 90 minutes of dance, film and music inspired by the paintings of Georgia O’Keeffe. Comprised of nine scenes Fleming intermixes older works with more recent dances to create an entirely new theatrical experience. ~ Catherine Tharin, New York

POSTCARDS: Paul Taylor Dancers' Jada Pearman and Shawn Lesniak On Their Experiences This Dancing Season

The Dance Enthusiast — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0500

See Jada Pearman and Shawn Lesniak Dance with their Talented Castmates during Paul Taylor's Season at Lincoln Center from November 5 - 24, 2024!

IMPRESSIONS: "Jakob and Imani" at Hudson Yards

The Dance Enthusiast — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0500

"There, in between the park’s fountains, they are greeted by visual artist Jakob Vitale’s tall, wooden cityscape mural. Booming music vibrates near his painting playground. As people continue to pour in, Vitale mixes colors in his palette, gearing up to begin a three-hour painting session as part of the performance jakob & Imani." — Miranda Stuck, New York

IMPRESSIONS: New York City Ballet — "All Peck" Program

The Dance Enthusiast — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0400

"All Peck celebrates Justin Peck’s decade as New York City Ballet’s resident choreographer. In the grand walls of the David H. Koch Theater, a highlight of All Peck is the mini-documentary ON OUR WAY: Justin Peck’s Decade in Residence, which delves into his creative mindset." — Miranda Stuck

DAY IN THE LIFE OF DANCE: Jody Sperling Brings La Loie to The Paul Taylor Season

The Dance Enthusiast — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0400

"As Jody Sperling hoped, these two Taylor dancers have taken her Loie Fuller-inspired, yet contemporary dances inside of themselves to make something very special, old yet new. It will be inspiring to see them as part of the upcoming Paul Taylor season." — Susanna Sloat, New York

IMPRESSIONS: "Edges of Ailey" at The Whitney Museum of American Art

The Dance Enthusiast — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400

"Activist, dancer, and choreographer, Alvin Ailey stands at the fulcrum of the Whitney Museum’s Edges of Ailey exhibition running through February 9, 2025 [...] (This show) was six years in the making. Curator Adrienne Edwardshas assembled archival material, numerous artworks, and an extensive catalogue, and has commissioned performances by 10 choreographers." — Catherine Tharin, New York City

IMPRESSIONS: New York City Center's Fall For Dance 2024 (Programs 4 and 5)

The Dance Enthusiast — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400

"One cannot help but follow Trenary’s every step on her transfixing journey, as she pushes the boundaries of what a single dancer can do in terms of energy and endurance." — Henning Rübsam, New York

IMPRESSIONS: Paris Opera Ballet Dances William Forsythe & Johan Inger in 2024-2025 Season Opener

The Dance Enthusiast — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400

"Rearray, originally created for Sadler’s Wells Ballet in 2011 for Sylvie Guillem and Nicolas La Riche, is both beautiful and glaringly harsh." — Ann Moradian

DANCE NEWS: CUNY Dance Initiative Announces Fall 2024 Master Classes and Workshops

The Dance Enthusiast — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400

“CDI has been an incredible resource for us, exposing our students to a rich array of NYC artists and dance forms. Our students have had transformational experiences taking master classes in dance styles that we are not able to offer as part of our curriculum. These experiences boost student confidence and have even led to ongoing professional relationships between the students and working artists.” — Aviva Geismar, director of Queensborough Community College's Dance Program

DANCE NEWS: The Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU Announces 2024-2025 Fellows

The Dance Enthusiast — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400

“We are thrilled to welcome this extraordinary group of fellows to CBA and NYU this academic year. Their diverse disciplines — including theater, choreography, art history, Black diasporic studies, street and club dance, and dance education — bring a wealth of perspectives.” — Jennifer Homans, CBA founder and director

IMPRESSIONS: "AINADAMAR: A Fountain of Tears" at the Metropolitan Opera

The Dance Enthusiast — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400

"Deborah Colker, the Brazilian director/choreographer, keeps the cast moving. The space seems to expand and contract as they billow out and in, and sometimes up. The cast, singers and dancers, seems to breathe as one." — Deirdre Towers, New York

IMPRESSSIONS: The Batsheva Ensemble performs “Kamuyot” at 92nd Street Y

The Dance Enthusiast — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400

"At the heart of the show is a proposal — an appeal to joy, an invitation to connect and be together in this time and place, and to dance." — Cecly Placenti, New York

DAY IN THE LIFE OF DANCE: "The Joffrey + Ballet in the US" at New York Public Library (Part 2)

The Dance Enthusiast — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400

"Evidently, the Joffrey Ballet is still with us; so, the exhibition concludes on an optimistic note. Yet no one imagines that the Joffrey today is the same globe-trotting company that turned-on hipsters in the 1960s." — Robert Johnson, New York

DAY IN THE LIFE OF DANCE: "The Joffrey + Ballet in the US" at New York Public Library (Part 1)

The Dance Enthusiast — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400

"The crush at the door for the Joffrey Ballet tickets at the Vienna Festival was so overwhelming that the city’s strict fire laws were broken, and people were herded in without seats for them to sit in.” A scene like that is unimaginable today." — Robert Johnson, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

IMPRESSIONS: New York City Center's Fall for Dance 2024 (Programs 2 and 3)

The Dance Enthusiast — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400

"kNoname Artist / Roderick George is a company I was unfamiliar with, but that from now on I will seek out [...] George has made a moving work and his powerful dancers commit to it wholeheartedly. I am spellbound, and forget to take any notes. My gratitude goes out to everyone involved." — Henning Rübsam, New York

IMPRESSIONS: Niall Jones Presents “JohnsonJaxxxonJefferson” at Danspace Project

The Dance Enthusiast — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400

IMPRESSIONS: Company Wayne McGregor at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park

The Dance Enthusiast — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400

"Company Wayne McGregor from Britain took to the Mountain View stage at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park in Tivoli, NY, umbrellaed by the splendid kitesurfer-like awning on sunny afternoons, October 5 and 6. Programming McGregor’s Autobiography (V100 + V101) as the final event put the cherry on top of this smart and varied line-up. This is not to say, however, that McGregor’s dance was a success." — Catherine Tharin, Tivoli, New York

IMPRESSIONS: Alethea Pace's Site-Specific "between wave and water"

The Dance Enthusiast — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400

The last surviving image documenting the location where Africans...were laid to rest in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx is a 1910 photograph titled "Slave Burying Ground.” Alethea Pace’s significant site-specific “between wave and water” recently served as a reclamation of the history of this African Burial Ground.

DAY IN THE LIFE OF DANCE: Limón Dance Company Rehearsing José Limón's "The Traitor"

The Dance Enthusiast — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400

“What is so spectacular about this work in particular, and what also makes it difficult to re stage, is that each each character, is having a individualistic experience of the events that are unfolding […] It’s as if I’m directing eight solos at once, and I want to see through their physicality who each character is." — Logan Kruger, New York

IMPRESSIONS: SOULSKIN Dance Presents BEAUTY at Mark Morris Dance Center

The Dance Enthusiast — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400

"BEAUTY unfolded as a total sensory experience with trippy projections, a diverse soundscape, and a contemporary ballet aesthetic." — Hanna Lieberman, New York

DAY IN THE LIFE OF DANCE: Works & Process Presents Martha Graham Dance Company with Baye & Asa

The Dance Enthusiast — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400

"Notably unlike Graham, Baye & Asa have not placed themselves front and center in their own work; and although the new Cortege contains solos, it is eminently an ensemble piece in which the warring tribes have become indistinguishable, suffering in a common, human mass." — Robert Johnson, New York

IMPRESSIONS: Rena Anakwe, ms. z tye and Ogemdi Ude at The Kitchen's Dance and Process

The Dance Enthusiast — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400

"These artists challenge notions of performance through a participatory ethos that invites and implicates the spectator [...] Together, Anakwe, tye, and Ude offer an evening of generosity, abandon, and deep care — I’d go back for more." — Sarah Cecilia Bukowski, New York