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It's torture and a guitar at New York Live Arts
By Brian Seibert
A Fender Stratocaster lies next to a bank of stage lights. When someone turns the guitar on, it buzzes. No one fixes the buzzing, and the noise... More >>
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Two Irish choreographers try to conjure the elusive
By Apollinaire Scherr
How wispy can a performance be and still amount to something? Experimental artists have been asking this question for nearly 50 years, but the... More >>
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It's crowd control at The White Box Project
By Apollinaire Scherr
At Descent—the first piece of Noémie Lafrance's to get everyone's attention, in 2002—the audience gathered at the top of the... More >>
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By Deborah Jowitt
A choreographer dies; the work lives on. Or does it? And if the artist in question has created and maintained a company devoted to the performance... More >>
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William Forsythe, Martha Clarke, Shantala Shivalingappa, and more.
By Deborah Jowitt
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
September 16–18, 20–25
Perhaps you’re too young to have seen three memorable duets made... More >>
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The cartoonist's most famous character comes to new life on screen
By Apollinaire Scherr
When Jules Feiffer was still "a kid, hanging out in the Village," he says, "unemployed and unemployable, without the weekly cartoon in the Voice,"... More >>
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The Joyce hosts the noted tap star, plus maybe Gregory Hines's shoes
By Brian Seibert
Savion Glover’s annual multiple-week encampment at the Joyce can often seem like a battle between two sides of a guy who’s been told... More >>
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The veteran choreographer brings Frame Dances and Adamantine to the Baryshnikov Arts Center
By Deborah Jowitt
The year: 1985. The place: Dance Theater Workshop. A man and a woman stand shoulder to shoulder, close to the audience, to perform Susan... More >>
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Trisha Brown's famous 1971 work revives itself in Chelsea. How does it hold up after all these years?
By Brian Seibert
When it premiered 40 years ago, Trisha Brown’s Roof Piece was one of those simple yet radical dance ideas that came out of the ’60s.... More >>
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Dean Moss's new work plays odd games
By Brian Seibert
Dean Moss's intriguing but frustrating Nameless forest (at the Kitchen through May 28) begins with a series of choices. The six performers, four... More >>
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Will any of the dancers make a permanent leap? Plus, summer dance picks.
By Brian Seibert
After the Ballet Nacional de Cuba finishes its run at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, June 8 to 11, the question won’t only be “When will... More >>
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New and old works from a pomo-ballet choreographer
By Deborah Jowitt
Let’s face it. Choreographers are thieves. Like magpies, they see the glint of bright bits and grab them to bedeck their nests—er,... More >>
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Four pieces from the company's junior crew
By Deborah Jowitt
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's kid sibling, Ailey II, is more than just a farm team to supply the parent company with fresh blood now... More >>
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The Making of Americans at DTW, plus Paradigm Shift: Past, Present, Future at Danspace
By Deborah Jowitt
Gertrude Stein was a woman of few words. She wrote few words that became many words— words that twisted back on themselves, picking up words... More >>
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Choreographers and Australia….
By Deborah Jowitt
For once, I didn’t read the program. When the lights came up on Stephen Petronio’s Underland, I watched videos of fiery explosions on... More >>
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A stop at the Joyce Theater for the Legacy Tour
By Deborah Jowitt
The members of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company are dancing as if there's no tomorrow. And in a sense that's true. These 15 supremely gifted... More >>
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Japan pervades two dance performances
By Deborah Jowitt
Unrequited love, infidelity, revenge, battles for territory and honor, suicide, repentance! I’m not talking about spaghetti westerns or... More >>
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Two groups build communities with their bodies
By Deborah Jowitt
During the first third of the 20th-century, European art was awash in revolutionary movements. By 1923, dada, with its witty outrages, was winding... More >>
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Plus Paradigm, Karole Armitage, and other spring dance picks
By Brian Seibert
Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans is a notoriously unread book. 500,000 words and so many of them the same. What book that repeats as... More >>
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Not exactly Chekhov's three sisters
By Deborah Jowitt
One great theme haunts many of Martha Graham’s dances: The hero-artist must descend into the depths, struggle with demons, and experience a... More >>
