Dance Now presents its fall festival at Joe's Pub September 7 through 10. How often do you see ten dances in under an hour-and-a-half? Had Joe’s Pub not initiated its annual Dance Now Festival eight years ago, you’d have had to think back to the 1920s and the well-filled solo programs that Martha Graham and others put on. Robin Staff, the producer and executive director of Dance Now, must … [Read more...]
Rituals of Love and Regeneration
Souleymane Badolo at St. Mark's Church and David Parker's The Bang Group at Joe's Pub brighten a blustery weekend. How often do Valentine’s Day and President’s Day share the same long weekend? And how often do you venture out to see dancing in a city so snowy that Central Park evokes Valley Forge, and then discover upon leaving the performance that rain is pouring down and the street you … [Read more...]