VIEWPOINTS – City Ballet’s winter season continues with its enchanting SLEEPING BEAUTY and a new Peck, among other works

And so New York City Ballet’s winter season continues – with its stylistic range on full display after opening the season with a pair of timeless, soul-enriching all-Balanchine programs (one set … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Recirquel Company’s NON SOLUS melds circus arts with dance, morosely

Last night at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Howard Gilman Opera House, I caught a performance of the Recirquel Company’s Non Solus (which translates in English to “not alone”). One … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – NEW YORK CITY BALLET opens its winter season with two nicely balanced all-Balanchine programs

There’s no question that New York City Ballet, with its bravado technique and exciting musicality, is one of the preeminent classical ballet companies in the world. No other company approaches … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – Contemporary dance companies L-E-V, Grupo Corpo, and Rosas captivate in their brief New York appearances

I love living in New York. It’s one of the few places on this planet where, over the course of a single week, one is able to catch the very … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – A decade on, AMERICAN REALNESS still delivers elemental commentary on the here and now

Rounding out the January experimental performing arts festivals is perhaps the boldest and most abstract (and therefore most unpredictable) of them all – American Realness, which in 2019 is celebrating … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – NDT2 ravishes at City Center with their iconic technique and aesthetic

No matter how hard other dance companies attempt to emulate Nederlands Dans Theater, no one quite moves like the renowned contemporary dance company. I first saw them perform way back in … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINT – 2018’s Best in Dance

2018 was an eclectic year in dance. Indeed, my “best of” list this year can be described as being an uncommonly diverse set, with classical ballet, contemporary dance, dance theater, and the avant-garde … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – BAM’s Next Wave Festival, Week 12: The final week dazzles with Andrew Schneider’s NERVOUS/SYSTEM & the return of Mark Morris’s THE HARD NUT

The time has come for the 2018 edition of BAM’s Next Wave Festival, the final one curated by outgoing BAM Executive Director and influential festival founder Joseph V. Melillo, to come to a … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – William Kentridge’s monumental, sprawling spectacle THE HEAD AND THE LOAD at the Park Avenue Armory was an unsettling, poetic epic

Earlier this month, I caught South African artist William Kentridge’s monumental The Head and the Load at the appropriately massive Drill Hall of the Park Avenue Armory. His visceral, collage-like aesthetic … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – BAM’s Next Wave Festival, Weeks 7-11: Memorable highlights include the dramatization of Joan Didion’s THE WHITE ALBUM and Mark-Anthony Turnage’s visceral opera GREEK

Weeks 7 through 11 of the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival showcased to BAM-goers a wide variety of genres in its three distinct spaces (the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, BAM Harvey, and BAM … Continue Reading →