THE HANGOVER REPORT – Monica Bill Barnes & Company’s vaudevillian ONE NIGHT ONLY is a joy to watch

I recently caught up with Monica Bill Barnes & Company’s joyous, quirky Off-Broadway dance-theater hybrid One Night Only (Running as Long as We Can), courtesy of the folks at Women’s Project … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – City Ballet successfully debuts four out of five works

I had missed New York City Ballet’s fall gala last week, usually a glamorous affair at the intersection of new choreography and the latest in “high” fashion. I had heard … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Bill T. Jones’ A LETTER TO MY NEPHEW is opaque, muddled

Last night, I attended the opening night performance of Bill T. Jones’ latest dance-theater creation A Letter to My Nephew, a highly anticipated offering at this year’s Next Wave Festival at the … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – FALL FOR DANCE gets off to a rousing start

Last night I attended the opening night performance of City Center’s Fall for Dance festival, one the center pieces of New York’s fall dance season. What makes Fall for Dance … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – A Tale of Four Swans: Mearns, Bouder, Hyltin, and Peck take on Odette/Odile

Over the course of the last two weeks, six New York City Ballet principal dancers took on the coveted role of Odette/Odile in Peter Martins’ Swan Lake – Sara Mearns, Teresa Reichlen, … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Kalman and Heginbotham’s THE PRINCIPALS OF UNCERTAINTY is a whimsical, if vague, affair

Last night, I caught the final performance of The Principals of Uncertainty at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. This hybrid piece of dance-theater is based on a book of collected illustrations of … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Pina Bausch lives on emphatically in the remount of an historic double bill at BAM

There are only a handful of choreographers who have had the same far-reaching impact to the arts as the late, great Pina Bausch. Indeed, her influence reaches beyond the world of … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Lucinda Childs’ minimalist “Dance” is gorgeously revived at the Joyce

I recently had the chance to catch Lucinda Childs Dance Company perform its seminal 1979 “Dance”. The three-piece evening length ballet, performed to a score by Philip Glass and projected … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Zvi Gotheiner’s ON THE ROAD, after Kerouac, is inspired dance

Last weekend, I had a chance to catch choreographer Zvi Gotheiner’s dance adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s intimate BAM Fisher space. The … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – NEDERLANDS DANS THEATER makes a rare appearance in New York, and they’re as sleek and impressive as ever

This past weekend, I attended a performance by the Nederlands Dans Theater, who made a rare appearance in New York at City Center last week. I first encountered the internationally revered … Continue Reading →