Dance
“We ask them to interpret the music through their own experiences, so they are connecting to and performing what Mr. Ailey called ‘blood memories’ on stage.”
Drawing on wide-ranging research and personal anecdotes gathered during the time he spent with the company, Robert Pranzatelli navigates us through the insouciance and absurdity of Pilobolus’ past.
Flamenco is big, bold, and fully human as it (often) traces the tensions of courtship, indulging in the sensual and the aggressive.
In “BLACK HOLE,” the TRIBE trio moves as if learning for the first time how their skeletons and muscles are constrained and empowered, perplexed and bedazzled, by gravity’s incontrovertible power.
The point was clear: we had been watching an elaborate invitation, a dance made to tempt the magical crows.
Too, too soon, the images in MOMIX’s “Alice” alternate between unpleasant and stale.
As the first draft of documenting choreographer Alexei Ratmansky’s career, this book will be invaluable, but by the end of it, the story may look somewhat different.
In this rigorous, timely dance-theater work, the performers provide a challenge to our beliefs and a salve for our hearts.
We’re not saying get rid of “Madama Butterfly” We’re saying do a better Butterfly.

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