We start off with Jennifer Dunning’s harsh on Fresh Tracks
Then Elizbeth A. Harris reports on a shot-on-the-streets film version of Jerome Robbin’s “Opus Jazz,” coming to you via NYCB dancers Ellen Bar and Sean Suottzi and director Ariel Schulman
Claudia La Rocco has some words for Prometheus Dance’s political mishit and uncredited projections
Then, L. Ro gets [...]
January 7, 2008
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Sulcas gets props for conjugating perspicacity from a noun to a verb in this review of Catch 27 at P.S.122, which featured Katy Pyle and Eleanor Hullihan’s super-awesome Centaur Show (C.C. saw an excerpt of this last winter at a Chez Bushwick “Ambush”
Alastair Macaulay gets the creepy series award for describing the female French style [...]
December 17, 2007
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Starting Monday and moving backward…
Alastair Macaulay is feeling easy, breezy and beautiful in France
Jennifer Dunning goes to the NuDance Festival and makes it out alive
Moving Theater gets a kick in the nuts for not getting Gia Kourlas “a decent seat”
Doug Elkins has run a long long way for his comeback at Joe’s Pub, according to [...]
December 12, 2007
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Find out how to actually make money off dance in Gia Kourlas’ review of Esse Aficionado at The Joyce Soho. (And it’s just as whorish as you think)
Roslyn Sulcas totally feels us, and therefore encourages The Kitchen to GET OVER THE 60’s (or 60s) after seeing Dance and Process. (But for realz, Roz is right [...]
December 6, 2007
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L-Ro throws down the electric boogaloo in her profile of the B-Boys of the South Bronx
Jennifer Dunning narrates an interview of Ailey Director Judith Jamison given by Ailey dancer Matthew Rushing; it’s like a meta-interview
Then she gives two thumbs up to Bill T. Jones’s new work, “A Quarelling Pair,” without mentioning how Bjorn G. Amelan’s [...]
December 3, 2007
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L. Ro signs out on Performa 07 with a pit stop at Micky D’s and some more stern words for RoS
Then she leaves Complexions dry eyed but with another sports metaphor under her belt
Alastair Macaulay (where the F has that bitch been?) brings his awkward handling of racial identity to Stravinsky and Balanchine’s “Agon” (Maybe [...]
November 26, 2007
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Roslyn Sulcas throws down a pair of pop reviews, each one focusing on the work of Riverdance runaways:
First up, María Pagés’ faux Flamenco isn’t faux enough. (The title of this article is seriously hilarious.) I’m still unsure as to why Flamenco gets reviewed so much anyway. Oh wait…damn you Alastair!!!
Then, Devine of the [...]
November 12, 2007
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Sulcas is hot and cold in her review of Ashleigh Leite’s “Crawlspace”
Kourlas reports on the latest generation of ballet dancers who seem already to have shed the innocent notion that their bodies will last forever. (Although part of me wonders if that innocence is indeed a loss to mourn…
Then she strikes down Marie Cool and [...]
November 5, 2007
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GUESS…
..who wrote this positive review of Parijat Desai Dance Company. Here’s a sample:
What was new about her blending of the Indian classical dance form of Bharata Natyam with Western modern and jazz dance was its departure from the usual look of ritual. And she has found the perfect interpreters in her four dancers, whose seamless [...]
October 22, 2007
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Sulcas wallows in unabashed excess at the Ballet Folklorico de Mexico
A.M. travels to Miami to appraise the family jewels
Then he’s back at the Joyce, proving himself somehwhat of a music nerd in his review of James Sewell
And L.Ro. takes down Nacho Duato at BAM. (The last piece was about drugs? Must have missed that in [...]
October 18, 2007
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