Tuesday, September 16th, 2014
The Slovak National Dance Congress 2014 recently asked me to speak about the state of New York City dance. Since I’ve been living in New York City on and off since 1979, I felt up to the task. In the following slides (which have been converted into a movie), I tease out the changes that have occurred for New York City concert dancers following 9/11. What I found most striking (and dismaying) in my research was that the U.S. capital of Terpsichore is increasingly recognizing dancers and dance organizations not as the obvious—as artists and art groups—but as brands for luxury consumption.
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Tags: 9/11, Dance/NYC, David H. Koch, Jose Limon, Martha Graham, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, nea, New York City, New York City Ballet, Newsies, Paul Taylor, Peter Martins, Rachel Straus, Stephen Petronio, Trisha Brown, Vacheron Constantin
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Wednesday, September 26th, 2012
Another event that featured music as much as dance was the September 17 Alice Tully Hall performance of the Simón Bolivar National Youth Choir and the José Limón Dance Company. The highlight of the one-night only occasion, celebrating Venezuala’s El Sistema, was Missa Brevis.
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Tags: Alexei Ratmansky, Alice Tully, Apollon Musagète, Ashley Bouder, Chinese Zodiac, Christopher Wheeldon, Doris Humphrey, El Sistema, Ellen Bar, Enjoy Your Rabbit, Francisco Ruvalcaba, Gabriela Poler-Buzali, George Balanchine, Guggenheim Museum, Igor Stravinsky, Jose Limon, Justin Peck, Kathryn Alter, Limon Dance Company, Michael Atkinson, Missa Brevis, Monte Carlo, New York City Ballet, Peter B. Lewis Theater, Peters Martins, Simon Bolivar National Youth Choir, Sufjan Stevens, Tiler Peck, Work & Process, Year of the Rabbit, Zoltan Kodaly
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