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Dd Response: John J Zullo/Raw Movement at St. Mark’s Church
Last Friday, I had the pleasure to witness a triptych of works by the emerging choreographer John J Zullo in St Marks’ Church.The space was draped with long white horizontal sheets for the first piece...
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Dd Response: LEO at the Irvine Barclay Theatre
LEO, a one-man physical theater hearkening from Berlin, literally tipped the stage of the Irvine Barclay Theatre on its side on Saturday, October 5th. A set by Flavia Hevin consisted of three walls and...
View ArticleDd Preview: Laguna Dance Festival in Orange County, CA
Orange County is currently anticipating one of its greatest annual dance events, the Laguna Dance Festival–and as the Dd writer covering this weekend’s performances, I am, too. Bringing acclaimed...
View ArticleDd Response: Week 2 of Ballet v6.0 at the Joyce
During the second week of the Joyce’s Ballet v6.0 festival, Whim W’Him, BalletCollective, and Jessica Lang Dance presented evenings of contemporary ballet that far surpassed those I attended in week...
View ArticleDd Response: The CURRENT SESSIONS Volume III, Issue II
This August marked the 2-year anniversary of The CURRENT SESSIONS, a semi-annual, New York City dance series founded by artist, creative director, and producer Alexis Convento. The premise of this...
View ArticleDd Response: Laguna Dance Festival
For almost a decade, The Laguna Dance Festival has been considered a gem in the Southern California dance scene. I discovered it a year ago, when I had just moved to the area from across the country,...
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Dd Short Short List for Week of 1/27-2/2
1. FLICfest. CJ Holm and Vanessa Walters. A “danced nature documentary” by Holm followed by Walters’ Ripening/Yield, an “ominous exploration of childhood memory.” 2/1 at 7:30p Irondale Arts Center in...
View ArticleDd Critical Conversation: BalletCollective at the Joyce’s Ballet v6.0 Festival
Leah Gerstenlauer and Candice Thompson correspond to discuss BalletCollective, the fifth company featured in the Joyce Theater’s contemporary ballet festival Ballet v6.0. CT: First of all I totally...
View ArticleDd Response: Letter From Becket
The day before taking a road trip up to Jacob’s Pillow to see Restless Creature, I took down my costume design website. Over the last two years my artistic focus has shifted from designing and sewing...
View ArticleProject Love ATL: Atlanta Ballet’s Alessa Rogers on Gratitude and Giving Back
Project Love ATL is a benefit performance leveraging the talents of thirty diverse professional artists from Atlanta–dancers, musicians, actors, and visual artists–to raise awareness and funds for a...
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