New York City Ballet-George Balanchine's The Nutcracker Lincoln Center, New York City, NY December 9, 2009 The Washington Ballet-Septime...
Performance opportunities are imperative for emerging choreographers. Artists must have the chance to develop their ideas, show their work,...
Choreography is essentially a work-in-progress. It is a living entity, not a static one. In fact, no piece is ever performed the exact sam...
Intimate performance settings have the power to transform an audience. In a big theater, dance audiences become invisible and anonymous; no...
Dance is visual. However, when you write about dance, the performance experience is very different. It becomes more about copious note-tak...
CityDance Ensemble has brought egalitarianism back to the Washington D.C. modern dance scene. Their new mixed repertory program, Latitude ,...
Conveying a story is the purpose of a large-scale narrative ballet; a sequence of events unfolds over time. The essential components are ch...
For more than a decade, Irish-themed performing arts have been on an upswing. The spectacle of Riverdance and Lord of the Dance appealed ...
The audience, and its role in the performing arts, has been in transition for the last forty years. Watching a dance has grown from a passi...
Narrative's role in modern dance has been in a desperate state for some time now. Storytelling got a bad rap in the 1960s, when formali...
The DC dance scene thrives with diversity and the VelocityDC Dance Festival has truly captured its essence. Friday night's performance ...
I am not a literary scholar. Yet, I was about to see Emio Greco | PC’s [purgatorio] POPOPERA , a work that had drawn inspiration from Dante...
Technology has been a true gift to the performing arts. With the emergence of audio, visual and computer innovation comes unlimited possibi...
The final installment of the Kennedy Center’s 2009 Local Dance Commissioning Project was presented this past Thursday and Friday. Tehree...
On September 15 th , the Embassy of Austria presented Willi Dorner’s above under inbetween , an ode to the original post-modern work of the ...
The Kennedy Center’s 2009 Local Dance Commissioning Project kicked off this week on the Millennium Stage and this year’s premiere evening fe...
Recently, I participated in a very animated discussion with two close friends about buying cereal. Our deeply intellectual debate pitted na...
Diablo Ballet has discovered the elusive formula for building successful repertoire: accessibility plus creativity. Increasing the viewersh...
I was worried that I had run out of things to say about Mark Morris. When you’ve seen one choreographer’s work multiple times and perhaps e...
Swan Lake rarely disappoints. Yes, some dancers are better than others in the main roles, but in the end, it is still Swan Lake . It’s ha...