Posts Tagged ‘Tyler Angle’
Wednesday, October 17th, 2012
The seventh annual Fall For Dance Festival came to a meaty close on October 13. Program five at New York’s City Center trafficked in high testosterone, thanks to China’s LPD-Laboratory Dance Project’s No Comment (2002) and Yaron Lifschitz’s Circa (2009), which is also the name of the Australian acrobatic troupe. In both works the body was treated like a battering ram.
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Tags: Blakeley White-Mcguire, Charles Wuorinen, Christopher Wheeldon, Chronicle, Circa, Craig Hall, Deseo Y Conciencia, Evel Knievel, Fall for Dance Festival, Fang Yi-Sheu, Five Movements Three Repeats, Fortune, LPD-Laboratory Dance Project, Maria Pages, Martha Graham, Max Richter, Memoryhouse, Merce Cunningham, No Comment, Otis Clyde, Pam Tamowitz, Stanford Makishi, The Bitter Earth/On the Nature of Daylight, The Juilliard School, Tyler Angle, Wendy Whelan, Yaron Lifschitz
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Monday, May 7th, 2012
Have you ever wondered what it would take to partner a female ballet dancer? The May 6 matinee at New York City Ballet was an excellent primer for any one considering that question. In each of the four works from the All (Jerome) Robbins program, at the former New York State Theater, the male lead rarely left the side of his female partner.
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Tags: Andantino, Fokine, Frederic Chopin, George Balanchine, In G Major, In the Night, Jerome Robbins, Jock Soto, Maria Kowroski, Massine, Nancy McDill, New York City Ballet, New York State Theater, Petipa, Ravel, Robert Fairchild, Sebastian Marcovici, Sterling Hyltin, The Cage, Tyler Angle, Water Flowing Together
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Monday, January 24th, 2011
By Rachel Straus If you’re a ballet lover, you know her name. Sara Mearns. New York Times senior dance critic Alastair MacAulay recently called her “the greatest American ballerina of our time.” On January 21, she performed in Jerome Robbins’s Dances at a Gathering (1969) and Alexei Ratmansky’s Concerto DSCH (2008) with the New York […]
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Tags: Alastair MacAulay, Alexei Ratmansky, Jerome Robbins, New York City Ballet, Sara Mearns, Tyler Angle
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