We know we’ve only been in action since May, but we’ve been toiling away like little Christmas elves to bring you the badest, most awesomest, completely ridiculous critical commentary out there. We’ve laughed, we’ve cried, we’ve tore a few new holes. But mainly, we’ve been genius. So we’re going out in 2007 by honoring the [...]
Okay. Our review of Glen Rumey’s latest at Danspace is getting lots of traffic (still no comments, though…). And we’ve had a few days to think about it, and we think–or at least some of us do–that the review might have been a teeeensy bit harsh.
Now, since we do things a little differently here at CC, we’re puting [...]
Review: Glen Rumsey, little virtue
We have to be careful. In our culture that is ever more prone to valuing appearance over substantive quality, it is easier and easier to get by with mediocrity without really being held up to the light. The panelists that sit as judges on the average reality talent competition are rarely [...]
I was first exposed to Glen Rumsey (or his work, at least) in 2005. His first evening-length work, ignored in my heaven, commissioned by and performed at Location One Gallery in Soho, was an amazing surprise, not only to me, but to reviewers throughout the city. Based on passages from Glen’s dream journals, [...]
Here’s a nice review of the Food For Thought performance we went to at Danspace a couple weekends ago, written by downtown dance doyen, Gus Solomons Jr.
Alastair McCaulay says Wendy Whelan ain’t so hot, Sara Mearns is juicy at NYCB.
Then he re-discovers how to appreciate gesture in St. Mark’s’ cemetary.
And Diane Solway exposes dancers’ “chunky” side.
Review: Liz Sargent Installations, Revealing
Windows and mirrors. One allows us to see actual things. The other to see images of actual things. The invoking of both of these principles in Liz Sargent’s Revealing (which had its premiere at Danspace last week) is no superficial affect. It suspends the performance, and audience, in a world that [...]
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