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NOV 2004
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interviews
 Inspired by Others:
Peter Bendixen of the Royal Danish Ballet
by Kate Snedeker
"I feel extremely privileged that I've
always done Henning and Arne's roles. They are just like icons in
anything that they did...[so performing this role] is difficult and its
hard, but it's a great challenge also because I know I have to make it
my own."
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more...
 America's
Arpino: Gerald Arpino, Artistic Director of the Joffrey Ballet
by Dean Speer
"I like innovation and I like to introduce
new elements into ballet. I've been often quoted as saying, 'I hate ballet
and I hate pretty!' And it's true. (Laughter.) But I love dance."
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more...
 Showing the Company at Its Best: Seth Olson and Maggie Wright, Principal Dancers, Ballet West
by Kate Snedeker
With these new audiences, the dancers have to really earn the praise and applause, which is not only immensely rewarding, but also is a great judge of the quality of their performances.
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company focus
 
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Articles and Discussions
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'The Phantom Project'
by Jenai Cutcher - September 19, 2003, New York
“We liked old things,” Bill T. Jones tells us as he opens last Friday's performance of The Phantom Project at the “new” Kitchen, as opposed to the “old” Kitchen, where Jones and partner Arnie Zane debuted their work in New York City twenty years ago. By way of celebrating the company's 20th anniversary, Jones has re-staged several of the works the pair created back then.
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'The Breathing Show'
by Lewis Whittington - April 2002, Philadelphia
There is a small, dubious history of virtuoso dancers taking the stage after their physical prime. Isadora Duncan did it to a point to which George Balanchine called her "a drunken, fat woman who for hours was rolling around like a pig." The dance-stage has seen everything from wayward flesh escaping from Martha Graham's torn robes to Rudolf Nureyev, in a pound of make-up, crawling around the stage on his last tour as the aged "Prodigal Son." We saw it on the screen as Fred Astaire turned into a parody of himself trying to revive his lost screen persona of the master of fleet-footedness.
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'Breathe Normally'
by Stuart Sweeney, November 1999, London
This was a one night performance by Mr Jones of his solo show, looking back over his life and his dance. We last saw Bill T Jones/Arnie Zane & Company in London 2 years ago performing 'We set out early....visibility was poor.' My memory of the work was of superb dancers of a variety of shapes and sizes and some intriguing choreography.
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Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane 2004-2005
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company Tours UK Summer 2004
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company 2003-2004 (20th anniversary season)
Bill T Jones and Arnie Zane 2003-4
Bill T. Jones 2003
Review: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company at Jacob's Pillow
Ailey, Bill T. Jones, Susan Hess and More (2002)
Bill T. Jones 2001-02 Season
Bill T Jones on the Aftermath (Sep 2001)
Bill T. Jones (2000)
Bill T Jones' 'You Walk?'
AXIS Dances Works by Bill T. Jones, Joe Goode, Sonya Delwaide and Joanna Haigood
Bill T Jones Protests Confederate Flag
Bill T Jones/Arnie Zane's "Out Some Place"
Bill T Jones 'The Breathing Show', Sadler's Wells, London
Arlene Croce, & Bill Jones 'Still/Here' 1995
Ghostacatching - Virtual Motion - and Bill T. Jones
Bill T Jones à Lille
Bill T. Jones à la radio
Bill T. Jones
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in our forums
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features
 Constructing
Contemporary Dance - Amperdans Festival
by
Ramsay Burt
October, 2004 -- Antwerp, Belgium
The other
impression I took away with me, apart from that made by the dance performances
I saw, was what a sophisticated level of theoretical discussion there
seemed to be shared between dancers, national dance critics, and dance
programmers.
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more...
 The
Moving Target: African Dance - Moving Africa, 651 ARTS, and
Adzido Dance
by Thea Nerissa
Barnes
July 2004 -- London
"Moving Africa," given
at the Barbican Theatre in London, UK 13 January 2004 presented works
by African choreographers Vincent Mantsoe, Seydou Boro and Ariry Mahefasoa
Mohoatrarivo Andriamoratsiresy.
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more...
 Summer in the City - Paris Quartier d’Eté
by lili
July-August, 2004 -- Paris
« Paris Quartier d’Eté » is a festival that offers a variety of shows: dance, music, theatre, circus and it takes place each year between July 14th and August 15th. During this period, all the public theatres in Paris are closed and the only way to see dance is to visit “Paris Quartier d’Eté”.
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Open
University Dance Group Summer School
by David Mead and
Lynn Tytherleigh
August 27-30, 2004 --Open University, Milton Keynes,
England
Now everyone got to "write on the body." Everyone
chose a short phrase, either selected from books or one they had made
up
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more...
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dance umbrella 2004
 Yolande
Snaith Theatredance - 'Jardin Blanc': The White Garden of Movement
by Rosella Simonari
October 25, 2004 -- Robin Howard Theatre, The Place, London
Of
particular visual impact was the abrupt unfolding of a flame
red curtain that cuts the stage in an opposite diagonale with
respect to the initial transparent curtain.
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more...
 Teshigawara
/ Karas - 'Bones in Pages': Counting Crows
by Thea Nerissa Barnes
October 22, 2004 -- Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Bell
chimes and other asunder of noise escalate in volume. There
is a table with pieces of broken glass sticking out of its surface
next to a wall of opened books. Close to the wall is Teshigawara
sitting at the table.
read
more...
 Les
Ballets C de la B / Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui - 'Tempus Fugit': The
Barrier of Time
by Ramsay
Burt
October 16, 2004 -- Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
The music exemplifies the cultural space that
I think "Tempus Fugit" appropriates for itself: the
sometimes uneasy, sometimes positive space in which citizens
of former colonial powers gradually get used to the coexistence
of European and immigrant cultural experiences.
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more...
Les
Ballets C de la B / Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui - 'Tempus Fugit': Explorers
of the Fourth Dimension
by Julia
Skene-Wenzel
October 16, 2004 -- Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, one of four choreographers
and directors of the artistic collective Les Ballets C de la
B, sets out to challenge the apparent absoluteness of time.
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more...
 Fondation
Jean-Pierre Perreault - 'Joe': The Book of Joe
by Julia
Skene-Wenzel
October 2004 -- Sadler's Wells, London
Some see Jean-Pierre Perrault's work as the portrayal
of the "destructive forces of conformity," while others
are struck by the struggle of the human spirit to break free
-- and indeed both elements are present.
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more...
Shen
Wei Dance Arts - 'Rite of Spring' and 'Folding': Wei to Go
by Elizabeth
Schwyzer
October 12, 2004 -- Sadler's Wells, London
Chinese contemporary dance choreographer Shen
Wei was inspired by "the rich and evocative texture"
of Stravinsky's masterpiece to create his own "Rite of
Spring."
read
more...
 Merce Cunningham Dance Company - 'Ground Level Overlay',
'Split Sides'
by Elizabeth
Schwyzer
October 8, 2004 -- Barbican Theatre, London
In
"Split Sides" (2003), Cunningham takes the game of
chance to a new extreme.
read more...
 Merce Cunningham Dance Company - 'Ground Level Overlay',
'Split Sides': A Cartography of Urban Aesthetics
by Rosella
Simonari
October 9, 2004 -- Barbican Theatre, London
But
it is "Ground Level Overlay" that opens the 'official'
performance with its smooth movement phrases and trombone sound
effects.
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Rhythm
and Resistance: Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault - 'Joe'
by Jeni
Rose
October 2004 -- Sadler's Wells, London
"Joe," a contemporary dance work known
as a "cult sensation" in Canada, provides us with
a third take on the use of rhythm; as a tool to make a political
statement through dance.
read
more...
 Mark
Morris on His Take on the Nutcracker: 'The Hard Nut' Premieres
in London
by Lyndsey
Winship
July-October 2004 -- Sadler's Wells, London
"Like most people who grew up dancing I
was completely anaesthetised from overexposure to this score.
You start to think that it’s bad when in fact it’s
one of the greatest scores ever written for a ballet."
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more...
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the
kirov ballet
fall season 2004
 'Swan
Lake': A Palpable Love
by Catherine Pawlick
October 8, 2004 --Mariinsky Theatre, St. Peterburg
The company appeared reenergized after their
annual break, more expressive and even more technically sound
(if that is possible) than in many of their summer performances.
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more...
 'Don
Quixote': Light Hearted Love
by Catherine Pawlick
October 10, 2004 --Mariinsky Theatre, St. Peterburg
In the land where both sexes flirt mercilessly
with each other and jealousy goes hand-in-hand with love, Ruzimatov
and Osmolkina led believable renditions of the century-old Spanish
characters, even, reliable, and solid.
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more...
 Fokine
Program - 'Chopiniana', 'Scheherezade', 'The Firebird': A Pleasant
Escape
by Catherine Pawlick
October 13, 2004 --Mariinsky Theatre, St. Peterburg
The red-haired Yanna Selina, clearly considered
an up-and-comer by the company administration, led the eleventh
waltz in "Chopiniana." Selina is increasingly given
soloist roles and for good reason.
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more...
'Manon'
by Catherine Pawlick
October 24, 2004 --Mariinsky Theatre, St. Peterburg
Instead, hers was more a Manon of the moment
-- when De Grieux was nearby, she was interested. When fur coats
and diamonds were nearby, she was interested.
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more...
'Giselle':
Fated Love
by Catherine Pawlick
October 27, 2004 --Mariinsky Theatre, St. Peterburg
She adopts her character's persona, whether it
be a flirtatiously seductive Manon or in this case --Giselle
--innocent, shy, a bit nervous, but cheerful in life and in
love. She jumped at Albrecht's first approaches, as flighty
as a young doe, but soon trusting and exuberant in her newfound
amour.
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more...
'La
Sylphide'
by Catherine Pawlick
October 29, 2004 --Mariinsky Theatre, St. Peterburg
The fundamental premise of the contradiction
between spiritual ideals and grounded, human existence is timeless,
and the Kirov's production of 'La Sylphide' upholds that tradition.
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more...
'The
Fountain of Bakhchisarai'
by Catherine Pawlick
October 31, 2004 --Mariinsky Theatre, St. Peterburg
Tonight's performance featured the return of
Maya Dumchenko to the stage, in her first post-maternity leave
performance. Dumchenko is a fair-haired beauty, long of arm,
thin of frame, ever graceful and pleasing to watch.
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more...
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editors'
picks
Los
Angeles
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Diavolo
November
17-21, 2004, Freud Playhouse, West Los Angeles
UCLA Live presents Diavolo's brand of physical dance theater defying
conventional movement and theatrical categories.
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Ballet
Preljocaj - 'Near Life Experience'
November 12-13, 2004, Royce Hall, West Los Angeles
UCLA Live presents Anjelin Preljocaj's exploration of varying states
of consciousness, love, desire, and ecstasy set to a score by French
ambient rock band Air.
Chicago
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Dance
Chicago -
Dance Everywhere
November 19, 2004, Athenaeum
Theatre, Chicago, Illinois
A mixed program featuring cultural diversity as part of Dance Chicago
2004.
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Dance Chicago - Jazz
Fusion
November 26-28, 2004,Athenaeum
Theatre, Chicago, Illinois
Jazz inspired program as part of Dance Chicago 2004.
New
York
·
Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch - 'Für die Kinder von gestern, heute und morgen (For the Children of
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow)'
November 16, 18-20, 2004,Brooklyn
Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York
A multigenerational ode to dancers at each stage of their lives and careers.
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John Jasperse - 'California'
December 7-11, 2004, Brooklyn
Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York
Using California as metaphor for the gap between hope and reality , Jasperse's work features an abstract movable set by architect Ammar Eloueini and live performance of original music by Jonathan Bepler.
San Francisco Bay Area
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San
Francisco Hip Hop Dance Fest 2004
November 18-21, 2004, Palace of Fine Arts, SF
From freestyling to belly dance, the festival includes a powerhouse
line up, with a premiere from Rennie Harris.
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ODC/SF
- 'The Velveteen Rabbit'
November 26- December 12, 2004, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SF
Grab your stuffed bunny and catch the delightful ODC holiday classic.
Philadelphia
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Philadanco
November 11-14, Perelman Theater at the Kimmel Center
Philadanco celebrates its 35th anniversary with their annual fall concert
at the Kimmel Center
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Virsky Ukrainian
National Dance Company
November 21 at 3:00pm,
Irvine Auditorium
The Virsky Ukrainian National Dance Company performing one show
only at Irvine Auditorium preceded by a free lecture on Ukrainian culture
at 2:00pm.
Seattle
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Pacific
Northwest Ballet - All Balanchine program
November 4-14, McCaw Hall
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Paul
Taylor Dance Company
November 18-20, Meany Hall.
London
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Akram
Khan Company - "Ma"
30th November to 5th December 2004, Queen Elizabeth Hall
In "Ma", Akram Khan uses seven dancers and three musicians
to explore Indian musical language and its relationship to dance.
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Matthew
Bourne's "Swan Lake"
30 Nov 2004 - 16 Jan 2005, Sadler's Wells Theatre
Bourne's worldwide hit returns to the theatre where it was first performed.
Copenhagen
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Royal Danish Ballet
- 'Fancy Free,' 'IN the Night,' 'Far from Denmark,' 'The King's Guard
in Amager' and 'Etudes'
Nov 3 - Dec 29, 2004, Royal Theatre,
Gamle Scene
Rome
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Rome Opera Ballet –
“La Gitana”
November 18, 20, 21, 23, Teatro Nazionale
In Taglioni year, one of her successful ballet very seldom performed
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Rome
Opera Ballet – “The Faun, poetry, music, dance”
December 1, 3, 4, 5, Teatro Nazionale
Ballets set to Debussy scores
by Nijinsky, Béjart, Robbins and Amodio, plus Mallarmè
poems.
Parma
·San
Carlo Ballet - “Giselle”
Novembre 13, 14, Teatro Regio
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La
Scala Ballet -“Swan Lake”
November 20, 21, Teatro Regio
The international dance festival, which includes videos and open classes,
closes with the most popular evergreen ballets.
Ballets set to Debussy scores
by Nijinsky, Béjart, Robbins and Amodio, plus Mallarmè
poems.
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reviews
Bolshoi
Ballet - 'Romeo and Juliet': This Century's Star Crossed Lovers
by Dean Speer
October 28, 2004 -- Paramount Theatre, Seattle, Washington
It's somewhat like Eifman's productions but to better music. And it's
also like his work as it's a production directed by a non-dancer/choreographer,
Englishman Declan Donnellan and with steps set by Moldovan dancer/choreographer
Radu Poklitaru.
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more...
American
Ballet Theatre - 'VIII,' 'Theme and Variations,' 'Sinfonietta,' 'Le Corsaire'
pas de deux: Sex and Suffering in Tudor Ideology
by Jerry Hochman
October 24, 2004 -- City Center, New York City
Wheeldon provided a Shakespearean/Elizabethan "performance within
a performance" by showcasing a group of harlequin dancers dubbed
"The Masks"apparently to provide an animated counterpoint to
the more repressed royal emotions.
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more...
Danses Concertantes - 'Variations pour une Porte et un Soupir', 'Circular Motion', 'Liturgy', 'Hallelujah Junction'
by Kate Snedeker
October 23, 2004 -- Sadler's Wells, London
In the last of their Sadler's Wells performances, Benjamin Millepied's
touring group Danses Concertantes presented an eclectic mixture of ballets.
read more...
Martha
Graham Dance Company - 'Appalachian Spring,' 'Errand into the Maze,' 'El
Penitente,' 'Diversion of Angels'
by Toba Singer
October 23, 2004 -- Mondavi Center, Davis, California
The Martha Graham Company, its place in American History, legacy to the
universal vocabulary of dance, singular choreography and roster of great
dancers, could cause us to view it as a museum, rich with retrospective
treasures, were it not for the timeless technique that birthed it.
read more...
The
Washington Ballet - 'Giselle': Washington Endorses Corps Values
by Carol Herron
October 22, 2004 -- Eisenhower Theatre, Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C.
The second act was dominated by Giselle (as a ghost) dancing
to save her 'lover.' Elizabeth Gaither has always seemed to me to have
a most ethereal quality and as a Wilis she absolutely shone.
read more...
 Cullberg
Ballet - 'Out of Breath,' 'Solo for Two,' 'A Sort Of': With Baited Breath
by Mary Ellen
Hunt
October 14, 2004 -- Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
With Johann Inger at the helm since last year, the company
remains one of the most innovative and freshest of modern troupes, showing
us how good dancing can be and how deep choreography can go.
read more...
Nuevo
Ballet Espagnol - 'Flamenco Directo': Direct from the Heart
by Annie Wells
October 13, 2004 -- Peacock Theatre, London
It's an unadulterated blend of the particular style of
Flamenco dance, song and live music that company directors, young Flamenco
masters Angel Rojas and Carlos Rodriguez, have been innovating in recent
years.
read
more...
 Oregon
Ballet Theatre - Movement as Metaphor Program
by Dean Speer
October 9, 2004 -- Keller Audiorium, Portland, Oregon
As we first viewed the 8 corps women in their two lines,
the intake of air was not from the curtain going up but from the delighted
gasp of the audience. Expectations were high and were certainly met.
read
more...
 Ballet
West - 'The Leaves Are Fading,' 'Jardin aux Lilas,' 'Offenbach in the
Underworld': Triumph of Triune Tudor Tribute
by Dean Speer
October 2, 2004 -- Capitol Theatre, Salt Lake City, Utah
... this is a ballet that gives us THE Can-Can. The Can-Can
is a true, French dance/art form and was actually taught at one of the
ballet schools I studied at in Paris (which was run by a Paris Opera Ballet
étoile, so we know it was a serious place; they take their Can-Can
seriously)...
read more...
Pacific Northwest Ballet - 'The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet': Not Stepless in Seattle
by Dean Speer
September 25, 2004 --McGaw Hall, Seattle
Music Director Stewart Kershaw put together a score from
lesser- and little-known Tchaikovsky that as a whole really does work
together to create the right kind of atmosphere and musical catalyst for
Stowell's vision of how to play out this famous story.
read more...
 Royal Danish Ballet - 'King's Guard on Amager' and 'Etudes'
by Kate Snedeker
October 2 & 3, 2004 --Royal Theatre, Copenhagen
The character of Du Puy is based on real man, the Swiss-born Edouard Du Puy, a violinist, conductor and singer who performed at the Royal Theatre in the early 1800s.
read more...
 Royal Danish Ballet - 'Anna Karenina': Rushing Tolstoy
by Kate Snedeker
September 23 & 25, 2004 --Royal Theatre, Copenhagen
Eschewing the elaborate sets that are so often the mainstay of story ballets, Ratmansky brings the lavish upper-class society of Tsarist Russia to life in a series of massive images projected onto a cyclorama-like backdrop.
read more...
 Limon
Dance Company :'Evensong,' 'Chaconne,' 'Angelitos Negros,' 'Phantasy Quintet,'
'Psalm': No Finer Example
by Cecly Placenti
September 23, 2004 -- Joyce Theatre, New York
Fifty-eight years after its inception, the Limon Company
continues to be a powerful force in the dance community, surviving changing
movement fashions and economies. It is the company's emphasis on dramatic
expression, nuanced and expansive movement, and the human soul that makes
this possible.
read more...
 Klaus Obermaier, Rob Tannion & Desiree Kongerod - 'Apparition': Measuring the Emperor's New Clothes
by Cerise
September 23, 2004 -- Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Two figures: one male and one female are silhouetted on the stage. Their smooth, geometrically patterned gestures and pathways are echoed by a line of light projected onto a plain backscreen.
read more...
Push 04 - 'Another America: Fire', 'Awakening', 'Two Step': Form Struggling with Function
by Thea Nerissa Barnes
September 17, 2004 -- Sadler's Wells, London
Push 2004 presentation sets out to dispel the notion that Black representations in British mainstream arts are not possible.
read more...
Leonide
Massine Positano Prize 2004
by Patrizia Vallone
September 4, 2004 -- Positano, Italy
This year, the difficult task of opening the evening was
given to two young dancers from the Naples Teatro San Carlo company: Candida
Sorrentino and Alessandro Macario danced the "Pas d'Esclave,"
a rarely-performed pas de deux from "Le Corsaire."
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more...
new
york city ballet in l.a.
New
York City Ballet - 'Concerto Barocco,' 'Hallelujah Junction,'
'Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux,' 'I'm Old Fashioned': Dancing more with less
by Art
Priromprintr
October 7, 2004 -- Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles
There's a swingy undertone to the Bach double violin
concerto that Balanchine captures perfectly while at the same
time mirroring the lyricism on the surface of the score.
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more...
New
York City Ballet - 'Polyphonia,' 'Thou Swell,' 'Symphony in C':
When Heaven was the Rainbow Room
by Jeff
Kuo
October 1, 2004 -- Orange County Performing Arts Center, Costa
Mesa, California
When so much
contemporary ballet seems to have embraced the post-modern free-for-all
of irony, parody, and pastiche (think Mats Ek, Angelin Preljocaj,
and Matthew Bourne), "Polyphonia" still believes in
the choreographer's ability to fashion Ballet as Art.
read
more..
New
York City Ballet - 'Polyphonia,' 'Thou Swell,' 'Symphony in C':
Ups and Downs in California
by Art
Priromprintr
October 1, 2004 -- Orange County Performing Arts Center, Costa
Mesa, California
... there was Sofiane Sylve in a truly mesmerizing Second Movement adagio that proved the highlight of the evening. Her dancing had mystery to it; there was some real personality, as well as being wonderfully musical.
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more...
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Letter from the Editors
BDM November 2004 is yet another issue that takes us to major dancer
centers around the world, from San Francisco to London, from St Petersburg
to New York City, and from Washington, D.C. to Positano in Italy.
For our company focus, we are proud to present one of danceworld's
most venerable companies, Bill
T Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. Please be sure to review the gallery,
past articles and all the forum topics.
Speaking of the forum, we encourage you to review and visit some
of the topics we've highlighted in the "in
our forums" section, for a compilation of newspaper articles from
around the world and heated discussion on each subject.
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