I know it’s been a while since I threw down a bona-fide review around these parts. So I’m breaking silence with some thoughts on The Bacchae, which wraps up its run The Public Theater’s Shakespeare In The Park this week. (Warning: this may fall more under “rant”.)
It’s also been a while since I had been [...]
About The Bacchae
Intervention (aka, Save me Trisha Brown)
Trisha…
TRISH!
We don’t have time for this.
That’s seriously how I felt as I trudged through the show on Thursday night.
You know, I wasn’t even going to write about it, until I saw it. And you know there’s a problem when a work inspires you to write about it out of a need to intervene between it [...]
Know When To Say When
Yo yo. So, it’s not usually my style to single out dances for being, well, bad. I usually amp up the bitchiness when something thinks it’s way better than it is. I try not to kick something when it’s down. But after Tuesday night…at The Kirov, it finally occurred to me that there is this [...]
Playing Into Vanity
We’re sending a big wet sloppy shout out to James Wolcott for linking our review of Trisha Brown to his blog on Vanity Fair. Woo hoo!
C.C. is tres flattered, and happy to know that sharp teeth are still appreciated in this town.
Trisha Brown: Gimme Something To Believe In
Dance Review: Trisha Brown Dance Company @ The Joyce
(Photo Credit: Montclair State University/Mike Peters 2007 – “I Love My Robots”)
This review is going to be difficult to write, not because I can’t find anything to say, but because I know what I’m going to say goes against four decades of critical praise [...]
Follow The Band Leader
We’re not blaming anyone, per se, but you all know three times equals a pattern, so when we just read Susan Yung’s lovely interview with Trisha Brown in The Brooklyn Rail (okay, so it’s our paper of the day–sue us!), we were intrigued to find out that her piece Foray Foret–from 1980–uses a marching band. [...]
Nacho Duato
Dance Review: Nacho Duato and Compañía Nacional de Danza at BAM
Nacho Duato isn’t breaking any ground with his choreography. And his style can easily be traced to current dance and dance-theater luminaries in both Europe and the United States. But the program his Compañía Nacional de Danza presented Wednesday night at Brooklyn Academy of [...]
Trisha Brown: Somewhere in between Merce and Morris
Piggy-back Review: Trisha Brown Dance Company
Claudia La Rocco has done half the work for us! Read her Times review of Trisha Brown Dance Company’s performance at Lincoln Center Out of Doors. C.C. also attended the event, held at the decrepit relic of 60’s utopian optimism, the Damrosch Park Bandshell.
Incidentally, a friend of mine [...]
