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NEW YEAR’S EVE AT ALVIN AILEY
If you’re in NY and you don’t yet have plans for New Year’s Eve, I highly recommend Alvin Ailey. They’re doing their Best of 20 Years program — a celebration of Judith Jamison’s 20 years as Artistic Director with the company that includes excerpts from the various ballets she’s commissioned in that time —…
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New York City Ballet Season Finale and Wrap Up With Response to Sir A
So, Sunday marked the end of New York City Ballet’s winter season. I was honestly in a blue funk all day yesterday, which shows, I guess, that I am really beginning to love this company since I’ve normally only gotten so sad over ABT and Alvin Ailey. Sunday was a one-day only program,…
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If You're In NY With Nothing To Do Tonight…
…go see Lar Lubovitch Dance Company at City Center (the company is celebrating its 40th anniversary). I’m off to a publishing seminar today and don’t have time to write a full review, but the program is varied and rich: first a fun new Hungarian-style dance, Jangle; then a long, enthrallingly complex piece called Men’s Stories…
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Don’t Forget Fall For Dance
Just wanted to remind New Yorkers (and anyone traveling to NY in the near future) that Fall For Dance tickets go on sale this Sunday, 9/7, at 11 a.m. Tickets are $10 if you choose to stand in line at the City Center box office (which I don’t recommend), or $15 (with $5 surcharge)…
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Kenn Duncan Exhibit at NYPL
There’s a very good exhibit right now at the New York Public Library’s Performing Arts branch of photographer Kenn Duncan’s work. Duncan (1928-1986) was a dancer and champion roller skater in the fifties and became a photographer in the seventies. As a dance photographer, he worked for Dance Magazine and After Dark (a 70s NY…
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A Gorgeous "Clear" Debut, An Eerily-Intriguing Nocturnal Reverie, and A Sparkling "Ballo"!
Another happy night for me at American Ballet Theater [a.k.a Danny Tidwell’s Old Company — sorry, I’ll only do that for this City Center season, I promise 🙂 ] But that goes without saying; ABT is always a blast. Tonight was the debut of a long-favorite dancer of mine, the legendary Jose Carreno, in “Clear,”…
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Movmnt Magazine Has Lots of Promise
When I was in the bookstore earlier I finally had the chance to check out this newish magazine, co-founded by Danny Tidwell and journalist David Benaym, devoted to pop culture, fashion and of course dance. I remember they had a stack of an earlier issue in the lobby at Bad Boys of Dance at Jacob’s…
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Othello Cannot Survive Nonsensical Melodramatic First Two Acts and One-Dimensional Iago
Ugh. I’m so angry. Just got back from seeing the NY premier of ABT’s Othello and I should probably wait to blog until I’ve gathered my thoughts better, and I may well change my mind at some point in the future, but sometimes it’s more fun when you’re raging, flaming mad. Everyone who knows me…
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Lar Lubovitch And His Phalanx of Cute Guys, Julianne’s Awesome Samba on DWTS, and Fabulously Weird Boris Eifman
Sorry this post is about so many diverse dancey things; just too busy and have to blog all at once… Last night I went to see the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company at the Skirball Center at NYU. Three works were performed, two of which were world premieres: “Little Rhapsodies” starring Dance Magazine readers’ “sexiest dancer…