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Pop Goes the Ballet - The New York Sun 2007-08-17 10:48:20 Pop Goes the Ballet - The New York SunFavorite Line? "They seemed a bit too concerned that their snake hips not seem corny or low-rent, and they wound up appearing just slightly straitlaced, despite all their smiles and playfulness."Performances tonight and tomorrow at the Joyce Theater, courtesy of the Bay Area's Smuin Ballet. ...

"At any rate, the most satisfying part of Brown’s dance is the lithe, relaxed fluidity in the general..." 2007-08-16 12:23:43 “At any rate, the most satisfying part of Brown’s dance is the lithe, relaxed fluidity in the general demeanor of the dancers.” - Trisha Brown: Somewhere in between Merce and Morris « countercritic CC at it again. A great analysis of Brown's latest show at Lincoln Center Out of Doors. The best line: "...Trisha Brown’s work stands in proud territory between the post-modern diatribe of Merce Cunningham’s abstraction, and the neo-Classical formalism and theatricality of wunder-Queen, Mark Morris." ...

Congress on Research in Dance (CORD) 40th Anniversary Conference 2007-08-16 07:58:02 Congress on Research in Dance (CORD) 40th Anniversary ConferenceAn interdisciplinary gathering of scholars and artists to explore dance's past, present and future through the critical prism of migration. Could be interesting if you're really into dance research. For the rest of us, tell us what you find out. We'll take the highlights. ...

New York City Center presents 2007 Fall for Dance Festival 2007-08-16 06:20:20 New York City Center presents 2007 Fall for Dance FestivalIncluding the ever popular Paul Taylor Dance company. 10 nights. $10 tickets for all performances. Bring on September. ...

RETTOCAMME dance installation at Jonathan Shorr Gallery 2007-08-15 13:10:10 RETTOCAMME dance installation at Jonathan Shorr Gallery Review of this event We dig installations but we decided to go because of the company's site, http://www.rettocamme.com/ A dance/design/art company? We have to see that. ...

Choreographing Space Installation 2007-08-15 12:17:44 Choreographing Space InstallationOpening next Saturday. An interdisciplinary collaboration that explores the intersection of architecture, dance, and moving image. We're going to try to get some photos at the opening. ...

Mark Morris Dance Group on PBS Mozart Dances 2007-08-15 09:33:06 Mark Morris Dance Group on PBS Mozart DancesLive from Lincoln Center starting Thursday, August 16 Mark Morris's music visualization. Like Fantasia without Mickey Mouse and not animated. It will be great if you're into that kind of thing. ...

Another kind of dance... the Barnes Dance? 2007-08-15 07:56:04 Another kind of dance... the Barnes Dance?Could help with pedestrian congestion but would suck if you're driving... "The Barnes Dance involved red lights to vehicular traffic in every direction at an intersection, at which time pedestrians were free to cross in any manner they wanted, including diagonally, without having to fear being hit by a car or truck coming from any direction." ...

23rd Annual New York Dance & Performance Awards 2007-08-14 09:13:30 23rd Annual New York Dance & Performance AwardsWe're all invited. $15 GA. ... Amp

Amitava Sarkar on Dance Photography This interview is interesting. It's cool to get the perspective of an artist on the other side of the camera. Amitava has some great work at http://insightphotography.smugmug.com/Dance 2007-08-14 09:11:17 ...

San Diego Dance Alliance - Dying? 2007-08-14 08:12:45 San Diego Dance Alliance - Dying?This article will give you the cold shivers. Executive Director submits resignation amidst much controversy - allowing their domain name to lapse, 12 months of IRS payroll taxes to go unpaid, and a large debt in his wake. I'll agree with the founder of the company - "I think it's a dead horse". ...

Solar One: Eco-friendly dance 2007-08-13 12:57:44 Solar One: Eco-friendly danceAt Lincoln Center Out of Doors next week on Aug 21. ...

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.Mark Morris Dance Group August 15-18, 20078:00PMNew York, NYMostly Mozart FestivalNew York State Theater 2007-08-13 11:18:20 ...

"Morphoses, the publicity makes plain, hopes to change the future of ballet." 2007-08-13 08:37:56 “Morphoses, the publicity makes plain, hopes to change the future of ballet.” - ALASTAIR MACAULAY on Christopher Wheeldon’s new company Morphoses in the New York Times ...

TAKE Dance Company Review 2007-08-11 11:30:20 Firstly, it’s TAKE (Ta-KAY) not Take. Rookie mistake. Takehiro Ueyama’s company made a NYC premiere with Looking for Water, an ensemble piece meant to “blend Eastern and Western sensibilities.” What the choreography lacked in originality the dancers made for in technique and fervor. The piece would have been well suited to the outdoor natural soundscape had it not been for Damian Eckstein’s deafening score. Sounding like the pounding of the Matrix soundtrack on steroids, the hammering vibrations caused the man next to me to think he was having heart palpitations. He was wrong. It was just the score. The second dance, One , showed Ueyama’s background as a Taylor dancer. The movement vocabulary was set more in a Taylor style, but it could have just been the score by Bach. Not withstanding the great score, the movement was almost wholly disconnected from the music as though it were chosen as an afterthought. After this heart-attack scare in the first piece, the guy next ...