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Dd 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...
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Dd Short Short List for Week of 8/19
1. The Current Sessions at the Wild Project Volume III, Issue II. will feature 10 choreographers and 1 dance film in 4 diverse programs. August 23-25 Friday & Saturday @ 7:30 PM; Sunday @ 3 PM w/...
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Dd 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...
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Dd Short Short List for Week of 8/26
1. Looking Through the Glass, an abstract re-telling of Lewis Carroll’s Alice and Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by C. Eule Dance. 8/29 and 8/30 at chashama Urban Garden Room One Bryant...
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Dd Short Short List for the Week of 9/2
1. Dusan Tynek’s Stereopsis at BAM Fisher Space The 10th anniversary performances include works exploring the intersection of science and mythology: “Stereopsis explores depth perception and binocular...
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Dd Preview: Laguna Dance Festival in Orange County, CA
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet in “Glow.” Photo by Sharen Bradford. Orange County is currently anticipating one of its greatest annual dance events, the Laguna Dance Festival–and as the Dd writer covering this...
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Dd 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...
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Dd 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...
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Dd 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 the Week of 9/16
1. The Metamorphosis, a Royal Ballet production choreographed by Arthur Pita. A dance version of Kafka’s famous novella? Yes, please. 9/17-9/29 The Joyce Theater Click Here for tickets! 2.FREE Fall for...
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Getting Over the Hump with Laura Peterson
I caught up with choreographer Laura Peterson, in the midst of a busy fall fundraising drive, to ask her, “What gets you over the hump?” I am grateful for this window into her mid-week motivation:...
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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 Short Short List for the Week of 10/7
Dance season is in full swing! 1. Miguel Gutierrez‘s 2006 “(almost) solo” myendlesslove. Performer Andrew Champlin in myendlesslove. Photo by Alex Escalante. Oct 9-12 and 16-19, 8pm Abrons Art Center...
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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...
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Travel Tuesday: Africa Comes To Nashville for the Music City Yoga Festival
There is no better feeling in the world than creating community and finding a connection with someone from halfway across the globe. I would know. This summer, I embarked on an incredible journey to...
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Dd Response: Run Don’t Run by Brian Brooks Moving Company
The show hadn’t even started and I was already in awe: Brian Brooks and Philip Trevino had created an installation that occupied the entire stage and from any seat you could see hundreds of red “cloth...
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Dd Response: Savion Glover’s STePZ
Savion Glover An audience made up mostly of families with children, young couples, and seniors gathered at the Brooklyn Center for Performing Arts on Saturday, November 2nd for a one-night-only...
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Dd Response: Maria Hassabi’s PREMIERE at the Kitchen
What does a crackling fire sound like? Does it resemble the early stages of corn popping in a pot on the stove—when there are intervals of silence between the pops? And is that pneumatic sound of a...
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Dd Short Short List for the Week of 11/17
1. Polish American Folk Dance Company The company performs for its 75th Anniversary at NYU’s Skirball Center. One night only, Saturday 11/23 at 7pm. I’ll be there! 2. The Barnard Project My former...
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Dd Response: Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet’s Rain Dogs
Though Rain Dogs, choreographed by Johan Inger, was a new repertory work for Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, it was not new to the Inger, who had created it originally for Ballet Basil in 2011. But,...
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