Sarah Michelson premieres a new work at Bard College's Richard B. Fisher Center. If a friend tells me he or she is going to see a particular choreographer’s new work, I nod my head; I have a vague idea of what it’ll be like. But suppose the choreographer named is Sarah Michelson. That’s a whole other story. I’ve walked into downtown New York theaters such as The Kitchen and P.S. 122 to see … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2017
Twyla Tharp Dances Again
Twyla Tharp Dance appears at the Joyce Theater, September 19 through October 8 What do I admire—love— about Twyla Tharp’s best choreography? Its scrappiness, its heroism, its tenderness, her masterly way with form and dynamics. She knows how to make a tight, punchy barrage of little steps erupt into a slow soar, how to turn a canon into a fugue, how to let unison slide into diversity and … [Read more...]
Bausch Reborn
Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch returns to the Brooklyn Academy of Music (through September 24). Pina Bausch made a wise decision in 1984 when Tanztheater Wuppertal— the company she headed in that park-studded, industrial German city—made its New York debut at the Brooklyn Academy of Music: she introduced us to her stylistic preoccupations gradually. Between graduating from the … [Read more...]