Review of Wim Wenders’s dance film, “Pina” [...]
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2 December 2011  Janet Jackson’s much anticipated “Numbers Ones: Up Close and Personal” performance Thursday night at the McCallum Theatre in Palm Desert, California, rocked the house pleasing an audience spanning the age and socioeconomic spectrum. [...] 26 September 2011  It was a wild ride, circling in a Ferris wheel above Hollyweird Boulevard at the Cirque du Soleil “Iris” opening party. [...] 26 September 2011  Cirque du Soleil’s new permanent show in Hollywood, “Iris” (pronouned “eer-ese”), is fun, beautiful, entertaining. Recommended. [...] 12 August 2011  Downtown choreographers Jodi Melnick and David Neumann have a winner on their hands, a touching, intimate portrayal of a couple made on commission at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. It’s called “July.” [...] 18 July 2011  Despite best efforts, California authorities (the people who brought you Ronald “Tear down this wall, Mr. Gorbachev!” Reagan) could not put the kibosh on American Ballet Theatre’s “The Bright Stream,” choreographed by their new in-house guy, Alexei Ratmansky. Clearly controlled by Soviet agents, ABT foisted a clever piece of communist propaganda on our sunny climes. [...] 2 July 2011  A woman stands at stage center, her knee-length black dress draping loosely over trousers. She’s trembling. Flashing lights — a disco? faux lightening? — cut the stage’s darkness. The sound of thunder, then rain, pours from the speakers. It’s loud, overpowering. The woman suffers, she’s convulsing; her corn-rowed hair flies in the [...] 24 June 2011  Perhaps it’s because I was just on the other side of the coin, bringing an utterly unknown genre of American dance into a communist country, where we were received with impeccable manners, but I’m uncomfortable with the critical drubbing the Cubans are receiving in the U.S. [...] 13 June 2011  Hong Kong tracks the best of the best China stories, in this case, the tale of the Lula Washington Dance Theatre in China’s central provinces. [...] 29 May 2011  This pitiless crew had not only a dance critic eating out of their hand; five thousand Chinese enjoyed their charms, and their enduring hard work. I never chatted with dancers who referred to themselves as often as dance-artists or expressed as much concern about connecting with their audience. [...] | |||
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