Reports are in. Sounds like the opening night of Lorin Maazel’s Die Valküre at The Met was pretty hot, complete with an on-stage tumble by mega-soprano, Stephanie Blythe. (C.C. regrets that she was unable to make it. You know we can’t do everything around here!)
Critics Roundup:
There isn’t much originality going on in the way [...]
RITE OF SPRING MONDAY!
(Photo of Xavier Le Roy by Vincent Cavaroc)
It’s always fun to look back at the in-print previews of performances once the glorious spectacles have found their ways on and off the stage. We rarely look back after the engagement has run its natural life course, from anticipated, to happening, to [...]
The etylomology of OUTRAGE, a word that has been associated with the work of Ann Liv Young since her days at Hollins, stems from, in its oldest sense, ideas of excess and extravagance. However, when used today to describe something (as outrageous), it is more often used to mean beyond reasonable limits, which is, I [...]
Final Diversity Post of the Week!
Not that there’s any reason to cut this thing short, but in deference to the coming weekend frenzy, and to show how a critic can write responsibly and respectfully about race issues in art, here’s Gia Kourlas’ TONY preview of States and Resemblence, an upcoming LMCC Sitelines dance collarboration [...]
Steve Smith reports from Time Out NY on ingénue producer Ronen Giveny’s Wordless Music, a series of concerts that pairs up electronic musicians and your good old dead guy composers on the same program, presumably to start a brawl between the hardcore Schenkerians and the Mac freaks.
I’m not sure if this solves classical music’s problem. [...]
Umm…okay. Just in case you didn’t already know that Mark Morris is known for–in addition to his choreography–being a total bastard to work with, Time Out’s Gia Kourlas interviews Lauren Grant, the smallest dancer ever.
What’s especially heartening about this interview are these little windows into self-abasement in the dance world, proving that, if you’re willing [...]
Gia Kourlas previews a pretty serious Merce Cunningham exhibition at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Called “Invention: Merce Cunningham & Collaborators,” this exhibition combines archival relics (physical and aural documents) and some live performances.
Does anybody else hate the phrase “creature comforts”?
Dance Review: Wally Cardona’s Site at Dance Theater Workshop
(Photo by Michael Hart)
Safety may not be the first thing that comes to mind when we think about performance. In fact, it may never cross our minds, because the safety, at least that of the audience member, is a subconscious agreement that exists between the presenter and [...]
Not many writers manage to find a way to fit in the phrase “cock-up” without intending some kind of sexual entendre. But TONY’s Howard Halle does in this well-written commendation for the Neo Rauch show that’s currently going on at The Met.
I haven’t seen Rauch’s work in person, but from the sound of it, it [...]
Choreographer, Wally Cardona, in an interview with Gia Kourlas for TimeOutNY, reveals this little tidbit about his past:
“I played clarinet. I’ve got to say the clarinet is one of the most embarrassing instruments to play. There’s something about the way you hold it and have to pucker up your mouth, and how you end up [...]
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