We critics have grown rather grouchy about City Center's annual smorgasbord, the Fall for Dance festival--which is exactly like looking a gift horse in the mouth, as those $10 tickets have to be paid for by someone and it's certainly not the audience. The shows--five separate programs, with four distinct works on each-- sustain a huge loss, offset by corporate and state support. My frustration … [Read more...]
Archives for 2010
Saturday September 25:
an array of dance in New York, reviewed … [Read more...]
Hodgepodge: reviews of Nora Chipaumire + Souleymane Badolo, Balanchine’s “Danses Concertantes” and “Who Cares?,” and Jerome Bel’s self-portraits of other people
I have been slow to post my Financial Times reviews. So here are three that have little to do with each other. Earlier this month, the fiercely independent choreographers Nora Chipaumire--admired for solo outings and for her dancing with the New York-based Urban Bush Women--and her husband, Souleymane Badolo--whose recent piece at Danspace was bewitching--offered their first foray into joint … [Read more...]
Sunday August 28:
August reviews, with brief commentary … [Read more...]
Women’s work, the great outdoors, and conjuring a glorious repertory piece in a few words: August reviews
From mid-June until late August, dance springs up in the most unexpected places in and around New York. From mid-August to the second week in September, practically all that is left of dance--and it isn't much--happens outdoors. Starting in mid-July I spent a month wandering hither and yon, which is not as fun as it sounds. It is draining to negotiate subway, boat, and the dawdling summer streets … [Read more...]
Monday August 2:
a bouquet of summer dances--and reviews … [Read more...]
Art Spiegelman brings culture (other than the physical kind) to Pilobolus; Rezo Gabriadze creates pathos from string and wire; Bill T. Jones pays oblique homage to Lincoln–and Merce; and Pichet Klunchun moves between monkey, demon, and demi-goddess
Here are six Financial Times reviews from the last few weeks. They cover events at the Joyce (two), Lincoln Center Festival (three) and outside along the Hudson for the River to River Festival. To begin, the first of two reviews of Pilobolus's four week season at the Joyce (one week left), which features a collaboration with Art "Maus" Spiegleman (yay!): There are two strains of Pilobolus - the … [Read more...]
Four farewells, three Romeos, a duet squared, and definitely only one Saburo Teshigawara (updated Thurs 7/22 with photos and a bit of commentary!)
But first: to all of you who came out on a blearily hot summer morning for my talk for the Dance Critics Association conference (see previous post ): thank you. It was lovely to meet those of you I've only corresponded with or haven't even done that, to see those of you I know, and to receive such a warm and interested response. Some of you who couldn't make it have wanted to know how you can … [Read more...]
Tuesday July 13
Apollinaire opens mouth especially wide--to give the Dance Critics Association's keynote address. Foot in Mouth readers get special reduced ticket price. … [Read more...]
Guess who’s giving the keynote address at the Dance Critics Association’s annual conference?
ME! I hope you can make it. The talk will be at the Kimmel Center at NYU this very Friday July 16 at 9:30 AM for about an hour. The Kimmel is at 60 Washington Square South, near the 4th Street stop for the A, C, E, B, D, F, M; the 8th Street stop for the N, R, and W; the Astor Place stop for the 6; and not far from the Union Square stop for N, R, Q, W, 4, 5, 6. The topic is big: how to write … [Read more...]