September 2006 in this issue focus on Balanchine's "Jewels" Edinburgh Festival Fringe Bytom Dance Festival reviews editors' choice

Finis Jhung: Finis Fine-Tunes Ballet by Dean Speer and Francis Timlin June 2006 - Jackson, Mississippi I believe that everyone has potential, that there is an answer to every problem, and that the teacher’s job is to give people the key to change themselves... I encourage students to become more confident by better understanding how their bodies work and how bodies move in space.  I also encourage students to look at steps, not in isolation, but rather as one continuous motion. read more... 'Howling Near Heaven' by Marcia B. Siegel reviewed by Leland Windreich Siegel’s book is less a biography than a chronicle of a career. Siegel deals with the warts in the context of Tharp’s exposition of the creative processes but avoids lingering on the potentially lurid. In offering a detailed account of Tharp’s dances and the many transitions in her artistic development, Siegel leaves no stone unturned. read more...

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Claire Barratt

Karapetyan & Zahorian

'To Dance on Sands'

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reviews

Bolshoi Ballet - 'The Pharaoh's Daughter'
by Cassandra -- August 2, 2006 matinee, evening, Royal Opera House, London
Osipova is gorgeous, a prima in the making if I’m not mistaken. Her technique is already near- impeccable and that miraculous jump of hers is allied to the cleanest of footwork. She has good line, pleasing musicality, natural épaulement and above all no mannerisms whatsoever.
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Batsheva - 'Telophaza'
by Juliet Neidish and Mark Franko -- July 20, 2006, New York State Theatre, Lincoln Center, NYC
The Batsheva dancers are without a doubt powerful, earthy, and exuberant movers committed to the mastery of Gaga, a movement technique designed by Naharin. The shared technique plus the fact that the dancers are for the most part in their mid- 20’s gives the company a look of homogeneity.  The company offered the U.S. premiere of “Telophaza” (2005) at the Lincoln Center Festival.
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Pilobolus - 'Prism', 'Gnomen', 'Sweet Purgatory'
by Cecly Placenti -- July 24, 2006, Joyce Theatre, New York
Pilobolus, the art organism, is a highly unusual, non-traditional dance company whose unique signature style grows out of a deeply committed collaborative effort. At seven dancers thick, its fresh approach to weight-sharing and partnering give it the power to make dances that look like moving architecture.
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Bolshoi Ballet - 'The Pharaoh's Daughter'
by David Mead -- July 31, 2006, Royal Opera House, London

Kirov Ballet - 'The Golden Age'
by Cassandra, July 28, 2006 -- London Coliseum, London

Ronald K. Brown/Evidence and Philadanco
by Oksana Khadarina -- July 18, 2006, Wolf Trap, Washington, D.C.

Carlos Acosta with Guest Artists from The Royal Ballet
by Ana Abad-Carles -- July 18, 2006, Sadler's Wells, London

Jean Abreu - 'Raizes'
by Thea Nerissa Barnes --July 15, 2006, Purcell Room, South Bank Centre, London

Kirov Ballet - 'Romeo and Juliet'
by Catherine Pawlick -- July 20, 2006, Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg

Kirov Ballet - 'Giselle'
by Oksana Khadarina -- June 16, 2006, Kennedy Center Opera House, Washington, D.C.

editors' choice · The Body Festival of Dance and Physical Theater September 15 - October 1, 2006, Christchurch Art Gallery, New Zealand Ranging from secondary school dance to “chicks pushing 50”, street dance battles to leading experimental choreography, this is a truly original line up of dance shows that should offer something for any palette. · Tempo° International Dance on Screen Festival October 6 -14, 2006 - TAPAC, Western Springs, Auckland, New Zealand Classical and contemporary dance films feature documentary and music video works from Uganda, Europe, and elsewhere.

 

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