Posts Tagged ‘Joe’s Pub’
Thursday, September 6th, 2012
Adam Barruch’s I Had Myself a True Love had my vote as the winner of the DanceNOW Challenge at Joe’s Pub. On September 5, Barruch’s competition was nine other choreographers. Just like a prime-time dance competition, the sold-out audience was invited to judge and pick a favorite. The challenge for the artists was to create a work in under five minutes for the tiny cabaret stage that makes, in the words of producer Sydney Skybetter, “a clear concise artistic statement.” The odds were tipped toward Barruch. He was the only choreographer with two works on the program. Last year he was a DanceNOW winner. This year his new hyper-expressive solos to recorded music sung by Barbara Steisand opened and closed the hour-long evening at the smartly renovated Joe’s Pub.
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Tags: Adam Barruch, Alvin Ailey Foundation, Barbara Streisand, Charlie Chaplin, DanceNOW, I Had Myself a True Love, Joe's Pub, Lover Come Back To Me, New Directions Choreography Lab, Pina Bausch, Sydney Skybetter, The Juiliard School
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Monday, April 25th, 2011
By Rachel Straus Downtown New York nightlife is as good a destination for surveying America’s fixation with youth culture as there is. But last week, two established performance artists presented works created for downtown venues that focused on a most anti-youthful subject: Death. Young Jean Lee wrote and performed “We’re Gonna Die” at Joe’s Pub. […]
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Tags: Caravaggio, Faye Driscoll, Future Wife, Joe's Pub, John Kelly, P.S. 122, Young Jean Lee
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Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
By Rachel Straus March 29 – April 9 Eiko & Koma The Japanese avant-garde artists, whose home has been the U.S. since 1976, present the New York premiere of Naked at the Baryshnikov Arts Center. They will be intermittently naked, but what will stand out are their glacially slow movement tableaus that change one’s perception […]
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Tags: Armitage Gone! Dance, Dance Theater Workshop, DanceNOW, Flamenco, Joe's Pub, Kyle Abraham, Museum of Art and Design, New York City Ballet, P.S. 122, Paradigm, St. Mark's Church, The Joyce Theater
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Monday, February 14th, 2011
By Rachel Straus When the pressure is on to be romantic, delivering the goods is a challenge. The week before Valentine’s Day, four dance events intentionally (and unintentionally) dabbled in matters of the heart. Merce Cunningham’s 1998 Pond Way—as filmed by Charles Atlas—was surprisingly the most romantic. (It was screened at the Baryshnikov Arts Center […]
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Tags: Alex Escalante, DanceNOW [NYC], Joe's Pub, Kyle Abraham, Mark Morris, Martha Graham Dance Company, Merce Cunningham, Nixon in China
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Monday, January 31st, 2011
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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Tags: 92nd St. Y, Baryshnikov Arts Center, City Center, Joe's Pub, Joyce Theater, New York City Ballet, Town Hall
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