Thursday, March 20th, 2014
In “La Curva” (The Curve, 2011), seen March 16 at the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University, Galván transforms flamenco dancing’s noble male image. The experience is like watching a painter create a cubist portrait. Except in this case what Galván presents is not a fractured face, but a full-blooded person, with his androgynous, grotesque, buffoonish, and madman characteristics, as well as his regal, virile side.
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Tags: Duchamps, El Bobote, Igor Stravinsky, Inés Bacán, Israel Galván, La Curva, Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts, Pace University, Rachel Straus, Rite of Spring, Sylvie Courvoisier, Vaslav Nijinsky, Vicente Escudero
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
“You just have to get crazier.” These words came from Pina Bausch, the late choreographer, whose dance troupe made the industrial city of Wuppertal, Germany an avant-garde theatrical destination for 36 years. In Wim Wenders’ 3D documentary “Pina,” screened on October 15 at Alice Tully Hall for the New York Film Festival, audiences got a taste of what Bausch’s crazy looks like. In one scene, a Bausch dancer walks through a park in a floor-length dress like a zombie queen. The woman careens to the ground, flat as a board. Right before smashing her face, her suitor scoops her up like a crane lift. Then she falls again, and again. The effect is part amusement ride, part suicide watch.
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Tags: 3D film, alice tully hall, Buena Vista Social Club, Germany, Giselle, Kirov Ballet, Matthew Bourne, Michael Flatley, New York Film Festival, Paris, Pina Bausch, Rite of Spring, Step Up 3D, Swan Lake, Texas, Wim Wenders, Wings of Desire, Wuppertal
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