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Curtain up
Sometime in the 1970s or '80s, I was watching Merce Cunningham in a solo onstage. He was skimming across the floor when suddenly a baby in the...
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Three in one
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This fall American Ballet Theatre is packing three premieres into a single week. Artist in residence Alexei Ratmansky will...
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Revisiting a time of protest
With searing simplicity, Jane Dudley's Harmonica Breakdown depicts a Dust Bowl woman bravely trudging through her life of poverty. Like many modern...
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Merce Cunningham
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] He blasted open the rules of concert dance. He pried choreography away from narrative to make dance his subject matter. He...
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Curtain up
I never liked the title Fame for a movie about kids training to be performers. Maybe singers and actors fantasize about fame, but for dancers it's...
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Opposites attract
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] He's a choreographer, she's a famous actress. He's "brown" and she's "white." He is of East Asian descent, she is French....
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A burst of everything
DanceNOW[NYC] celebrates its 15th year of ushering in the fall season with a burst of everything. Their tag line, "Find Your Artistic Crush," could...
Dance Magazine, 09/01/09 by Wendy Perron · More from publication -
The Royal Ballet: The Kennedy Center Washington, DC June 23-28, 2009
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Brits can choreograph love duets to die for. Ashton's one-act A Month in the Country (part of a triple bill) and...
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Pina Bausch
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] One of the giants of contemporary dance, Pina Bausch has influenced artists the world over. Her astonishing imagination,...
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Curtain up
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] One of the sweet paradoxes about Janie Taylor is that her dancing is both old and new. She has...
Dance Magazine, 07/01/09 by Wendy Perron · More from publication
