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10 November 2011

MJ dances

Michael Jackson Smooth Criminal

In consideration of Michael Jackson’s dancing. [...]

14 October 2011

Young lions of modern dance – Hofesh Shechter, Kyle Abraham – set to roar in Los Angeles

Hofesh-Shechter

Coming our way in Los Angeles, two fabulous choreographic talents in modern dance, Israeli born Hofesh Shechter, based in London and Pittsburgh guy Kyle Abraham, who’s now based in Brooklyn. [...]

24 April 2011

David Dorfman’s late-hour conversation with Sly Stone saves “Prophets of Funk” performance

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A last-minute glitch put the performance of “Prophets of Funk,” by David Dorfman Dance Company into jeopardy. The rights to use Sly & the Family Stone music were not secured. But, au derniere moment, the show went on! [...]

28 March 2011

Get stoned … go higher! See David Dorfman’s “Prophets of Funk”

sly stone

Choreographer David Dorfman throws down the gauntlet with his concert-dance homage to the great interracial funk band of the sixties, Sly & the Family Stone. [...]

24 October 2010

Choreographer Kyle Abraham, Pittsburgh homeboy, BESSIE awardee

kyle abraham

Pittsburgh-born choreographer Kyle Abraham shares one of the Steel City’s great qualities: he’s real. [...]

18 October 2010

Bessie awards honors west coast choreographers

In a joyous ceremony that ended only one hour ago at Symphony Space on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, two West Coast choreographers were among those honored with Bessie dance awards.

The awards returned with a vengeance following a one-year hiatus.

Faye Driscoll of Los Angeles was recognized for her dance-theater piece “837 Venice Boulevard.”  Accepting [...]

18 August 2010

Kyle Abraham makes it or breaks it

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I enjoyed Kyle Abraham’s “The Radio Show” at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. The dance commemorates the loss of Pittsburgh’s rhythm-and-blues radio station WAMO. [...]