Ten years later, I saw Crystal Pite’s “Dark Matters.” Her choreography augured a new movement style, a “Matrix”-like sense of physical wonder. On January 24 at Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC), Pite’s choreography enthralled the audience. At the end of “The You Show,” made in 2010 with her company Kidd Pivot Frankfurt RM, Pite and her eight dancers received a standing ovation.
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To understand the power of a good title, look no further than Susan Marshall’s “Adamantine.” In the dance work—which had its New York premiere at the Baryshnikov Arts Center on June 9 in celebration of the Susan Marshall & Company’s quarter-century mark—six performers are bathed by and dressed in an adamantine luster. That is a brilliant, non-metallic shade of gray, whose chameleon-like qualities becomes a metaphor for the paradoxes of urban living. With Mark Stanley’s lighting and Jeremy Lydic’s set design, one minute the stage space is darkly diluvian, like a bad subway ride. In the next it’s heavenly, like the setting sun transforming a nondescript building’s façade into a golden field of light.
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By Rachel Straus May 1-2 Guggenheim Museum The popular Works + Process series presents “American Ballet Theatre on to Act II.” Current ABT dancers will perform excerpts from their upcoming Metropolitan Opera House season. ABT alumni will discuss the challenges dancers face in the second act of their careers. You can watch the event each [...]
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By Rachel Straus February 4 and 5 @ 8:00 p.m. Miro Magloire’s New Chamber Ballet at City Center Magloire’s choreographic inspiration is music. Lately, the German-born, composer-choreographer has been inviting emerging dance makers to his evenings at City Center’s studio. The program will include three world premieres: Constantine Baecher’s Sketches Of A Woman Remembering (a [...]
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by Rachel Straus Sometimes it helps to be overtly theatrical. Take Adam Barruch. At Dance Theater Workshop (January 5 and 6), the choreographer-performer opened the Emerging Artists showcase as though he were hit by lightening. Barruch’s ferociously physical attack belies his boyish, slight-of-hip appearance. Under a pool of light, he slammed his fist like a [...]
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