Monday, September 10th, 2012
Choreographer Jonah Bokaer and visual artist Anthony McCall’s world premiere of Eclipse inaugurated the BAM Richard B. Fisher Building with six sold out performances from September 5th through 9th. The hour-long work (seen on the 9th) in the new black box theater was configured so that the audience flanked four sides of the dark, carpeted stage space. The performance began when Bokaer approached one of the lowest hanging bulbs and knelt to Thomas Edison’s invention. Like the sun god Apollo, Bokaer’s penetrating gaze into the bulb’s opaque surface caused its illumination.
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Tags: Adam Weinert, Anthony McCall, Apollo, BAM Richard B. Fisher Building, CC Chang, Eclipse, Jonah Bokaer, Judson Church Theatre, Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, Sara Procopio, Tal Adler-Arieli
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Monday, May 9th, 2011
There is no better way to anoint a rising male ballet star than to award him the title role in George Balanchine’s “Apollo.” On May 5 at David R. Koch Theater, New York City Ballet corps dancer Chase Finlay hit the big time with “Apollo,” receiving three curt
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Tags: Ana Sophia Scheller, Apollo, Bruce Webber, Chase Finlay, Four Temperaments, French Vogue, George Balanchine, Gonzalo Garcia, Igor Stravinsky, Jennie Somogyi, Maria Kowroski, Monumentum Pro Gesualdo, Movements for Piano and Orchestra, New York City Ballet, Nietzche, Peter Martins, Sebastian Marcovici, Sterling Hyltin, Tiler Peck, Vitruvian-Man
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