BY ELIZABETH ZIMMER | After three quiescent years, the Manhattan dance scene is picking up speed. There’s almost too much to do, too much to see. Here are two offerings not to be missed. (A new column with more must-sees will publish soon.) MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY: April 18-30 | This venerable modern company, now 97 […]
BY ELIZABETH ZIMMER | After three quiescent years, the Manhattan dance scene is picking up speed. There’s almost too much to do, too much to see. Here are the first of several offerings not to be missed. (A new column with more must-sees will publish soon.) A.I.M | If you sent me to a desert […]
BY ELIZABETH ZIMMER | When the all-male Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo was founded in 1974, being gay could get you into lots of trouble. The Stonewall Riots were still fresh in New Yorkers’ memories; the AIDS crisis, which decimated the original company, lay ahead. The male dancers’ portrayals of ballerinas on pointe were […]
BY ELIZABETH ZIMMER | Making art out of human bodies has always posed a challenge. Dancers are, after all, forked animals just like the rest of us; and arrive onstage loaded with more baggage than do musical notes, splotches of paint, chunks of stone, or even words. Tere O’Connor is a contemporary master of this […]
NYC DANCE PREVIEWS BY ELIZABETH ZIMMER SOLEDAD BARRIO & NOCHE FLAMENCA: Renowned Repertory & New Works Led by Barrio & Artistic Director Martín Santangelo | The news here is not that Noche Flamenca—the Madrid-New York collaboration between flamenco star Soledad Barrio and her husband Martin Santangelo—is celebrating its 30th anniversary, although that is certainly true. […]
BY BONNIE ROSENSTOCK| Some minutes before Burn began, there was an epic river of a rainstorm, pelting leftward, seen on the back screen. Booming claps of thunder were heard, and lightning illuminated the sky, which gave just a hint of a mountainous backdrop. After it subsided, Alan Cumming appeared onstage dressed in black, dark eyeliner […]
BY ELIZABETH ZIMMER Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods: Violet | Meg Stuart, born in New Orleans to theater professionals and now based in Belgium and Germany, attended NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and cut her teeth in the contact improvisation community. Her accomplishments are legion and her reach is wide. Stuart’s Violet, 11 years old, has already toured to […]
BY ELIZABETH ZIMMER | Returning to action after its annual hiatus, the dedicated-to-dance Joyce Theater offers a rare outlier: An hour-long, one-man show, Burn, made collaboratively by the multi-talented Scottish actor Alan Cumming and choreographer Steven Hoggett, in celebration of the Scottish poet laureate Robert Burns. Arriving in Chelsea weeks after its world premiere at […]
BY ELIZABETH ZIMMER | As I write, the first breezes of fall have begun to blow, and my feet, long laid low by months of heat and humidity, are itching to be out and about. Chelsea enjoys an abundance of walkable performance spaces, and the first offerings of the season. Here are two such opportunities. […]
BY BONNIE ROSENSTOCK | Anahid Sofian opened her Oriental dance studio on West 15th Street in 1972, and is celebrating that auspicious occasion on Sat., June 18, with a night of dance, music, and libation. Billed as an Atelier Orientale, it will feature performers who were her students or teachers at her studio at one […]