Category: dance

Last year, a pair of foreigners competing in the Buenos Aires competition El Metropolitan got heckled. This year, organizers instituted an Argentines-only policy – until would-be competitors sued in court and won.

The company’s summer season in New York includes a new work, created with MIT students, for one human dancer and two remote-controlled, T-shaped flying robots with helicopter blades.

The free app, by choreographer Richard Daniels and developer Samuel Toulouse, “features six modern dances, ranging from two to five minutes, performed by an accomplished bunch: Carmen de Lavallade, Deborah Jowitt, Regina Larkin, Christine Redpath and Megan Williams.”

“To put it bluntly, dancers, male and female, are in such a state of readiness that they will grab at anything in a skirt or trousers, leotard or legwarmers, to relieve their itch. Labelling the male-on-male contacts as homosexual or bisexual is missing the point.”

This year’s strongest trend seemed to be tackling weighty issues through dance – with mixed results.

“It’s a far cry from Angry Birds. Unlike Dances for an iPhone, which features original content created specifically for the small screen, much of the dance material found on the Internet consists of pre-existing work.”

“The corpse is still warm, and already they are dancing past it. The Paul Taylor Dance Company said on Thursday that it would move three weeks of performances in the spring to the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, filling part of the gap left by the departing New York City Opera.”

“For more than half a century the choreographer Paul Taylor has inspired, enchanted and puzzled audiences with his dances onstage. Now fans can get a peek behind the curtain as his archives are opened to the public.”

Claudia LaRocco: “The idea seemed magical to me: invite intriguing dance artists to make a written score – whatever those two words might mean to each of them – and gather the results in this section. … Welcome to the Brooklyn Rail‘s first-ever On the Page dance festival.”

The Spanish choreographer will remain at the helm of the company at least through December 2014. The changes he has brought to the troupe “have translated into strong ticket sales, new audiences and a renewed ‘buzz’.”