Foot in Mouth

Here's the review of mine I promised to link to--in the wonderful Financial Times,  where the dear, charming Hilary Ostlere used to write. Please click! One of the heavenly tangles in Nearly Ninety (dancers Silas Reiner, Holley Farmer, and Koji Mizuta; Photo: Andrea Mohin/The New York Times)A few followup notes: So we critics agreed about one thing, at least, that Nearly Ninety's set by … [Read more...]

My friend Paul Parish, irregular Foot contributor, writes from Berkeley: Don't know if you'll be as upset as I am to hear that the projected budget cuts at UC Berkeley are very likely going to wipe out the dance program -- the one in women's phys ed, NOT the Dance program in Performance Studies. But the phys ed program has been there for a hundred years -- Cal was the first state university … [Read more...]

I have a review coming out--Monday, I think it is; I will link to it here--on the BAM Cunningham show that runs through Sunday, so I will keep mum on the subject except to say: It's worth going (of course--this is Cunningham) and it's your last chance to see the the serenely regal and eloquent Holley Farmer and the heartbreakingly immediate Daniel Squire do Cunningham. It's also the last … [Read more...]

The postcard for Vicky Shick's Glimpse--commissioned by the Extremely Hungary Festival and Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church, which presented the dance last weekend--is a photo of a worn Hungarian-English dictionary opened to a page of ps: pelda to pince. Penz follows pentek as money does Friday only to take off on a byway: pep (pulp; the flesh pitted of structure). That's how the soft, … [Read more...]

[UPDATE: Scroll down for illuminating comments (taking me to task, yes they do) by Bob Yesselman, former head of DanceNYC, and John Wyszniewski, marketing manager from 2004 to 2007 of Dance Theater Workshop (DTW), one of the debt-plagued organizations La Rocco discusses.] Claudia La Rocco is probably the best dance journalist around. Working at the Associated Press since college, she knows how to … [Read more...]