Anna Myer and Dancers

Azlan · **Posted:** Tue May 08, 2001 4:32 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Myer's latest sure to be a classicTheodore Bale, Boston HeraldHer new dance ``Angle of Repose'' uses music that ranges from Jackie Wilson to Brahms to Dean Martin to The Penguin Cafe Orchestra, so it's no wonder that Cambridge-based choreographer Anna Myer has gained a reputation as a postmodernist. But that label used to require the rejection of both virtuosity and expressiveness, elements at the very foundation of Myer's riveting choreography.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><A HREF="http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/arts_culture/myer05082001.htm" TARGET=_blank>More</A>

Basheva · **Posted:** Wed Oct 31, 2001 6:36 am

From the Boston Globe:An admirable new 'Angle' from choreographer Myer By Christine Temin, Globe Staff, 10/31/2001 <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Anna Myer's new ''Angle of Repose'' includes one dancer who is 10 and another who is 78. It tells the story of a lifetime - not through mime or linear narrative, but in the style of an early Italian painting that tackles a dozen episodes of a saint's life in the same picture, so you see them all at once. As with such paintings, though, there is a culminating image, a line of dancers facing the audience, offering their vulnerability and fluttering their hands as if preparing to fly. The hands look like the wings on Giotto's cherubs.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><A HREF="http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/304/living/An_admirable_new_Angle_from_choreographer_Myer+.shtml" TARGET=_blank>MORE...</A>

Azlan · **Posted:** Sat May 18, 2002 10:09 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Dancing decade Anna Myer at Green StreetBY MARCIA B. SIEGEL, Boston PhoenixFor her tenth-anniversary concerts at Green Street Studios, Anna Myer put together a retrospective sampling of six works made in the ’90s and ’00s.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><a href=http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/arts/dance/documents/02258162.htm target=_blank>More</a>

ncgnet · **Joined:** Sun Oct 27, 2002 12:01 am **Posts:** 1845

From the Boston Herald, context for an upcoming performance:

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Myer unlocks space between life, death

by Theodore Bale

Terpsichore isn’t Anna Myer’s only muse. Since the Cambridge-based choreographer founded Anna Myer and Dancers in 1992, her work has developed along two distinct threads.

The first pays a kind of orderly homage to Apollo, while the second, reckless and dreamy, is certainly encouraged by Dionysus.

I’ve been watching Myer’s dances for 10 years, and I feel that I can make that aesthetic delineation with security. Over time, her ever-growing repertory has provided me with more than just food for thought - a multicourse feast might be a better description.

Myer didn’t dismiss the notion when we spoke earlier this week, though it became apparent as our conversation progressed that for her, romance has always been the dominant theme.

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ncgnet · **Joined:** Sun Oct 27, 2002 12:01 am **Posts:** 1845

In the Sunday Boston Herald, Theodore Bale reviews Anna Myer's performance last Friday:

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World premieres, new venue mark Anna Myer's turning point

Anna Myer's dances used to be so visceral and open that she gave them such names as “Heartchunks.” After 11 years of choreographing, she's chosen a more rarefied path, as demonstrated in a polished program Friday night at the Tsai Performance Center.

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ncgnet · **Joined:** Sun Oct 27, 2002 12:01 am **Posts:** 1845

A review from Karen Campbell, in the Boston Globe:

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Troupe moves in adventurous ways

Choreographer Anna Myer has never pandered to expectations. Just when you think an elegant turn or soaring leap will lead into a phrase of unabashed balletic grace, the energy pulls up short and the line is subverted by a tilted head, an oddly bent leg, or a stiff arm ending in a curled-in, clawlike hand. While it can be a little disconcerting and not always viscerally satisfying, it does keep the audience attentive. There's the constant anticipation that whatever comes next is something we will not have seen before in quite the same way.

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ncgnet · **Joined:** Sun Oct 27, 2002 12:01 am **Posts:** 1845

A review by Marcia Siegel in the Boston Phoenix:

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Memory bank
Anna Myer at the Tsai Center

At the start of Anna Myer’s new dance, Unlocking, a woman in a tiny, cream-colored satin nightie and matching biker shorts walks softly around, inscribing the space with cryptic arm gestures. Soon another woman appears, identically dressed in a dark color. The second woman seems to be the shadow of the first, copying her movements but maybe a breath later. They lie on the floor side by side, scootching down as if they were settling in to sleep. The dance that follows might be some half-recalled dream of theirs

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citibob · **Posted:** Thu Feb 06, 2003 12:03 pm

I saw that evening. Greatly enjoyed it, but haven't had time to say anything more.

ncgnet · **Joined:** Sun Oct 27, 2002 12:01 am **Posts:** 1845

From Christine Temin in the Boston Globe:
Veteran choreographers delve into love, loss, improvisation

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... and Anna Myer and Dancers perform “The Presence of That Absence” at the Tsai Performance Center [tomorrow and Saturday]

ncgnet · **Joined:** Sun Oct 27, 2002 12:01 am **Posts:** 1845

A review from Marcia Siegel in the Boston Phoenix: Anna Myer at the Tsai Center
(Note that in the article this review follows her review of the Boston Ballet's recent rep program.)

ncgnet · **Joined:** Sun Oct 27, 2002 12:01 am **Posts:** 1845

From Theodore Bale in the Boston Herald: Drama touches Cambridge ‘All At Once’

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.... the composer [Jakov Jakoulov] is in the studio watching an open rehearsal along with a small group of fans and some of Myer’s board members. The dance is both joyous and disparaging, but one thing is certain: Aptly titled “All At Once,” it is clearly Myer’s greatest spectacle to date.

(The dance is premiering in NYC, will be performed in Boston next May.)

kurinuku · **Posted:** Sun Oct 10, 2004 12:57 am

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Motion, Emotion, Commotion

by JACK ANDERSON
the New York Times

The dancers were on the move - which is, of course, to be expected - but so were the 12 string players from the Juilliard School. As a result "All at Once" was visually unusual, and emotionally satisfying. At moments, the dance steps seemed to make the musical phrases visible while the musicians' bowing arms appeared to be doing dances of their own.

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ncgnet · **Joined:** Sun Oct 27, 2002 12:01 am **Posts:** 1845

From Christine Temin in the Boston Globe:

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Dancer strives for poetry in commotion
Getting everyone to lend a hand -- and a foot
[Anna]Myer premiered [“All at Once,” ] last fall in New York, where it won raves from the picky New York press. The company she founded in 1992 dances “All at Once” as part of a program of her work this week at the Top Floor of Boston Ballet. We asked her some questions about making dances and maintaining a company in Boston.

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ncgnet · **Joined:** Sun Oct 27, 2002 12:01 am **Posts:** 1845

From Thea Singer in the Boston Globe:

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‘All at Once’ reconfigures music, movement
In the Boston premiere of “All at Once,” choreographer Anna Myer and the New England String Ensemble have conducted a brave experiment, in both the literal and figurative senses of the verb. They’ve taken the common elements of a dance performance -- movement and music -- and sent them spinning into one another’s territory. The result is a performance that both reverberates with depth and gets ensnared in its own sense of adventure.

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salzberg · **Posted:** Fri May 20, 2005 10:07 am

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And here the nine dancers serve not only as cast members but also as set designers, as they reconfigure the musicians' seating arrangements before each section of the piece.

Unless they're making it up as they go along (and differently for each performance), they're serving as stagehands, not set designers.


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