April 12, 2008 at 4:04 am · Filed under dance, new york city, choreographer, juilliard, performance, miki orihara, MIKI, martha graham, stephen pier, aszure barton, east village
Duo Theater in East Village, is a pretty space. Built in 1889, as a ballroom, this space was a home of Roy Rogers( I think…I saw a lot of posters).
Very nice !
Aszure Barton is a most succeceful woman choreographer now in NYC, and her company’s performances this weekend. It is one act show of about 1hour 5mins. 5 dancers were very different from each other and their movement and quality was very different but when they move, very precisely as her choreography, amazingly together and they were TIGHT!!!
I had a previledge of dancing her work with MG”s season at the Joyce last September, ” Lamentation Variation” inspired by MG’s short study film of her master peice “Lamentation”, her choreography is very detail oriented and you have to be so precise to move… I had a great time!
this is Aszure(R) and one of 5 dancers, Banning Roberts who is the Juilliard Grad and ex-Cluberg Ballet dancer and now freelance lives in Paris!
anyway, this “A Travelling Show” added one more show on Sunday Matinee this coming April 13, highly recommended!!!
I don’t want to talk about too much since some of us might go to see it this week weekend!!!
From the Left to Right: Stephen Pier, Courteny Blackwell, Bannning and Williams Briscoe( who was another one of 5 !) these three of them were all Juilliard Grad. and Stephen and I somehow feel like “Parents”…
oh well.
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July 26, 2007 at 5:47 pm · Filed under dance, student, CATHY, brazil, choreography, sao paolo, baryshinkov, hells kitchen dance, aszure barton, benjamin millepied
I had never imagined that someday I would see Mikhail Baryshnikov dancing. Actually, I had no idea he still danced.
And to my surprise, he came to Brazil with his new company, Hell’s Kitchen Dance to tour. They opened the Festival de Dança de Joinville - a dance event/competition here that is HUGE, in the south of the country that started last week. I still haven’t had the opportunity to attend it, though.
Yesterday and on the 24th he was here in São Paulo. I had gotten my tickets weeks ago. They were sold out in two days! Something that I didn’t expect because, afterall, ballet is not something very popular around here.
I was pretty anxious and excited during these weeks.
Parts of the Teatro Municipal stage and lights.
So yesterday I headed to the Teatro Municipal (there’s a picture of the building in one of my old posts) - it’s always a delight to go there - in order to see the performance.
The stairs that take you to your seats in the theater
The piece started with Baryshinkov in a solo - “Years Later”, by Benjamin Millepied. I absolutely loved the idea: there was a screen showing a movie of himself when he was very young. He’d do multiple pirouettes, amazing and high cabrioles, entrechats and so on. The older Baryshnikov would stare at it and try to do what was being shown on the screen, with no success. But he managed to dance in a beautiful and captivating way with the music by Philip Glass. His presence is something amazing. It was quite a touching piece.
Then there were two solos - which I don’t have information about as there was a change in the program.
The first was a woman in some sort of 50’s outfit, she started singing (or lip syncing, I don’t really know) and then did her short solo. I honestly didn’t like it very much, first because I couldn’t understand the point of the choreography, it was a huge question mark for me, and second because the choreography itself was somehow poor.
After her, a man did another short solo, however this one was pretty good. He was a great dancer, very musical and he surprised the audience.
The evening ended with a piece by Aszure Barton called “Come in”.
The whole company danced this piece - and so did Misha.
It was a much longer piece and the choreography was excellent. The male dancers showed themselves much more mature and prepared than the girls, their technique was better as was their presence on the stage. The girls lacked many things; I guess because the company is still new and such. So there’s some work to be done yet, I guess.
Although in general the performance was short, it was worth it. It was a unique opportunity to see Misha dancing and it’s something I’m sure I’ll never forget.
The company has potential and I hope they come back here!
My vacations are almost at an end - next week classes are back (ballet and last months ever of school!) and there’s a lot of work to be done: RAD exam coming up and also exam to enter University.
I’ll keep you guys updated! See you!
Cathy
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