Posts Tagged ‘Baryshnikov Arts Center’
Monday, April 28th, 2014
Toward the end of LeeSaar’s Princess Crocodile, seven bare legged female dancers line up, open their red-painted mouths, and— like it’s the most mundane thing in the world—wildly wag their tongues at the audience. This culminating act lasts a good minute. It felt oddly fitting, and it became the theatrical highlight of the newest work by the husband-wife team Saar Harari and Lee Sher, seen April 10 at the Baryshnikov Arts Center’s Howard Gilman Performance Space.
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Tags: Animal HousGood Times, Apollo, Avi Yono Bueon, Balanchine, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Candice Schnurr, Gaga, Howard Gilman Performance Space, Hyerin Lee, Leda, Lee Sher, LeeSaar, Ohad Naharin, Princess Crocodile, Rachel Straus, Saar Harari, Stravinsky, Symphony No. 5 Mahler
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Tuesday, February 28th, 2012
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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Tags: Baryshnikov Arts Center, Beethoven, Cindy Salgado, Crystal Pite, Dark Matters, Eric Beauchesne, George Balanchine, Hugo Weaving, I don't believe in outer space, Isadora Duncan, Jermaine Maurice Spivey, Jiří Pokorný, Judson Dance Theatre, Keanu Reeves, Kidd Pivot Frankfurt RM, Marines, Martha Graham, Peter Chu, Piano Sonata No. 14 in C Sharp Minor, Robert Sondergaard, Sandra Marin Garcia, The Matrix, The You Show, Three Atmospheric Studies, William Forsythe
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Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
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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Tags: Adamantine, Baryshnikov Arts Center, International Festival of the Arts, Jeremy Lydic, Joseph Poulson, Mark Stanley, Peter Whitehead, Petra Van Noort, Susan Marshall
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Monday, May 2nd, 2011
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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Tags: 92nd St. Y, Alexei Ratmansky, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, Andrew Nemr, Antony Tudor, Apollo Theater, BAC Flicks, Balanchine, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Benjamin Millepied, Bharata Natyam, Camille A. Brown, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, Charles Atlas, Christopher Wheeldon, Dances Patrelle, Danza Contemporanea de Cuba, Gilbert & Sullivan, Guggenheim Museum, Gus Solomons, Joyce Theater, Lynne Taylor-Corbett, Marshall Davis, Mats Ek, Mondays with Merce, Movement Research, Nancy Dalva, New York City Ballet, New York City Dance Parade, Odissi, Patti Lupone, Pedro Ruiz, Rafael Bonachela, Sakshi Productions, Sydney Dance Company, Trisha Brown, Wendy Whelan, “Giselle, “Lady of the Camellias, ” Dakshina Company, ” “Cinderella, ” “Coppelia, ” “Don Quixote, ” “Swan Lake, ” “The Sleeping Beauty
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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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Monday, January 10th, 2011
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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Tags: Baryshnikov Arts Center, Dance Theater Workshop, Joyce Theater
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