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New York Theatre Ballet: It all fits
New York Theatre Ballet Danspace Project St. Mark’s in-the-Bowery New York, New York March 14, 2019 REP Program: Scramble, The Elements of Style, The Seasons Jerry Hochman The venerable New York...
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Akiko Kitamura’s Cross Transit
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Terrace Theater Washington, DC March 19, 2019 Carmel Morgan Akiko Kitamura’s Cross Transit has a wealth of ideas. And the ideas are intriguing. Cross...
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Princess Zhaojun: Mother of Dragons
Chinese National Opera & Dance Drama Theater David H. Koch Theater Lincoln Center New York, New York March 21, 2019 Princess Zhaojun Jerry Hochman Converting a story about a legendary and revered...
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Diablo Ballet –“Once Upon A Time”
Diablo Ballet – Once Upon A Time Lesher Center Walnut Creek, CA March 22, 2019 Bryn Namavari Diablo Ballet’s 25th Anniversary season was celebrated with the world premiere of Once Upon A Time, a new...
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Pacific Northwest Ballet: The Grapes of Delight
Pacific Northwest Ballet McGaw Hall Seattle, WA March 16, 2019 Director’s Choice Program: Bacchus; The Trees The Trees, In the Countenance of Kings Dean Speer Pacific Northwest Ballet has commissioned...
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Ballet Hispánico: Home is Where the Hat is
Ballet Hispánico The Joyce Theater New York, New York March 26, 2019 El Viaje, Sombrerisimo, Homebound/Alaala Jerry Hochman Ever since Twyla Tharp choreographed Push Comes to Shove for American Ballet...
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SF/Bay Area Round-up March 2019
Heather Desaulniers San Francisco Ballet – The Sleeping Beauty War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco Rogelio López & Dancers – Dicotomia Del Silencio Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, Berkeley Deborah...
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Norwegian Opera & Ballet: Dido and Aeneas
Scene 2, Opera House Oslo 22 March 2019 Maggie Foyer In opera houses across Europe, ballet and opera cohabit, sharing facilities but seldom joining forces on stage in equal partnership. In Oslo,...
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Ariel Rivka Dance & Guests: Childs Play, Adult Turmoil
Ariel Rivka Dance (with Guests slowdanger and Alison Cook Beatty Dance) Baruch Performing Arts Center New York, New York March 28, 2019 Ariel Rivka Dance: Rhapsody in K, She, Mossy, Ori slowdanger:...
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Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company: Analogy Trilogy
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Eisenhower Theater Washington, DC March 28-30, 2019 Carmel Morgan For three evenings in a row I sat and watched the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company...
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NYCB: Composer’s Holiday, Kammermusik No. 2, Opus 19/The Dreamer, Symphony in C
New York City Ballet Composer’s Holiday Kammermusik No. 2 Opus 19/The Dreamer Symphony in C The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Opera House Washington, DC April 2, 2019 Carmel Morgan The...
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The Washington Ballet: Three World Premieres
The Washington Ballet: Three World Premieres Wood Work Shadow Lands Teeming Waltzes Harman Center for the Arts Sidney Harman Hall Washington, DC April 5, 2019 Carmel Morgan As it did last year, The...
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English National Ballet: She Persisted
Sadler’s Wells Theatre London 4 April 2019 Maggie Foyer She Said and the later incarnation She Persisted are Artistic Director, Tamara Rojo’s response to the dearth of women ballet choreographers....
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Dorrance Dance: A Grand Slam
[pending receipt of additional performance photographs] Dorrance Dance New York City Center New York, New York March 29, 2010 Program B: Jungle Blues, Three to One, Basses Loaded, Lessons in Tradition,...
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NYCB: Easy, In the Night, The Runaway, Something to Dance About
New York City Ballet Easy In the Night The Runaway Something to Dance About: Jerome Robbins, Broadway at the Ballet The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Opera House Washington, DC April...
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Mariinsky Ballet: Le Corsaire
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Opera House Washington, DC April 9, 2019 Carmel Morgan Le Corsaire isn’t among my favorite of the classical story ballets (I’m not into kidnapping,...
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Osipova and Hallberg: Pure Dance at City Center
[pending receipt of performance photographs] Natalia Osipova’s Pure Dance, with David Hallberg New York City Center New York, New York April 3, 2019 The Leaves are Fading (pas de deux), Flutter, In...
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Pennsylvania Ballet – All Stravinsky Program
Apollo, Deco, The Cage, and Stravinsky Violin Concerto Merriam Theater Philadelphia, Pennsylvania April 7, 2019 at 2:00pm Sigrid Payne DaVeiga Audience members awaited their seats early today at the...
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Tom Gold Dance: Quality is a Given
Tom Gold Dance The Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College New York, New York April 4, 2019 Significant Strangers, Counterpoint, Blind Revelry Jerry Hochman Some things are a given. Like the sun rising in the...
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Saburo Teshigawara: The Idiot
The Print Room at The Coronet London 21st March 2019 Stuart Sweeney Saburo Teshigawara’s distinctive work has garnered for him a worldwide reputation as a dancer, choreographer and teacher. It was...
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