Category Dance
Ballet boy
Today I pulled a Billy Elliot and went to ballet class. I didn’t go alone — it was my friend Amy’s idea. Amy and I have had a subscription to the modern dance season at the Kennedy Center for the past few years (remember Mark Morris, Alvin Ailey, and Keigwin + Company?), and we’ve also been watching a lot of dance-related […]
Building Dancers
I hadn’t expected to walk out of work today and see people dancing on the facade of the clock tower across the street. And yet there they were. Totally bizarre and cool. I love public performance art. (You’ll see the dancers better if you maximize the video.)
New York & DC – Two Snow Whites
Last night after seeing Tribes, we realized that the night was still young (it was only 9:45pm). So we ran back up to the movie theater at Lincoln Square and caught a screening of Mirror Mirror, the new Snow White movie with Julia Roberts and a handful of other interesting people. (And yes, if you’re keeping […]
Keigwin + Company
Getting seasons tickets to the Kennedy Center’s modern dance series was one of the best decisions I’ve made in recent years. There’s just so much great dance! Last night I saw Keigwin + Company perform. If Merce Cunningham was cerebral, Mark Morris gorgeous, and Alvin Ailey exhilarating, Keigwin + Company was pure fun. The company is […]
Alvin Ailey
Last night after the opera, I headed down to the Kennedy Center to see a performance by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. They’re a remarkable modern dance company — predominantly African American, with a tremendously positive vibe at their performances and exquisitely talented dancers (which makes up for sometimes less than stellar choreography). This is the third […]
Mark Morris Dance Group
I love dance. In the eight years since I moved to the East Coast, I’ve seen a lot of it. As with anything, the more you see and know, the better you can judge the quality. If you’d asked me this morning what I thought were the best dance performances I’d seen, I would have […]
Boise – Dancing Queen
Both Brynn and Shae are in ballet, and this week I had the great luck of attending one of their recitals! It was great fun to see them get dressed up in their costumes, makeup and hairdos. They were clearly in little girl heaven as they became the beautiful princesses of the day. Shae, loving […]
End of an Era: Merce Cunningham Dance Company’s Legacy Tour
Merce Cunningham — a dancer and choreographer — was a major figure in the modern dance world from the 1950s until his death in 2009. Following his death, his dance company began the process of winding down. The company’s two-year legacy tour concludes this month, at which point the company will disband and all rights to the Cunningham choreography will […]
Haze
Tonight was the first concert in my subscription to the Kennedy Center’s contemporary dance season. The Beijing Dance Theatre performed Haze. Here’s a snippet from a performance earlier this summer: Tonight’s performance, overall, was very beautiful, and there were some striking moments. The themes of alienation and falling, however, became tiresome after a while — by […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 