Archive for recommendation
September 16, 2007 at 3:31 pm · Filed under dance, contemporary, recommendation, event, new york city, choreographer, performance, contemporary dance, physical theatre, exhausting dance
Photo by: Dieter Hartwig
“…and pulled out their hair” by Berlin-based choreographer Jeremy Wade is outstanding.
I went with two friends last night, both of which have seen a lot of dance, and we all agreed: This is the best performance dance work we had seen in a LONG time. I kid you not, if you have plans tonight, change them. It’s the last day of his show. It’s that good. Jeremy and his four dancers deliver ten-fold. Trust me, go.
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May 8, 2007 at 3:10 am · Filed under choreographers, MEGAN, contemporary, recommendation, the foundry, alex ketley, christian burns
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| Posted by Megan Kurashige
If you happen to live in/be near San Francisco this weekend, I urge you to hurry over to ODC Theater and see Imprint, the newest work by The Foundry. The Foundry is directed by two of my teachers, Alex Ketley and Christian Burns, and they are collaborating on this work with video artists, Anthony Discenza and Torsten Burns, and Les Stuck who previously composed for the Frankfurt Ballet. Two of my friends, Hallie and Chloe, are dancing in the work and from what they’ve told me, it sounds very exciting and odd and interesting. I can’t wait to see it! I’m probably going on Friday, so if any Winger readers are there, come say hello! For a little taster of the genre of movement, Christian has a few videos on his website and here’s the link (again) to Careless which Alex did for us last year.
I actually had an amazing dance weekend. I’ll write more later, but in list form it went like this: Friday- benefit at a gorgeous house for the Conservatory, Saturday- Sacred Monsters with Sylvie Guillem and Akram Khan, Sunday- Muriel Maffre’s (who is one of my favourite dancers of all time) farewell performance with SFB. It was amazing, fun, wonderful, and inspiring.
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April 4, 2007 at 4:10 pm · Filed under dancers, GIA, GIA PICKS, recommendation, john jasperse, becky hilton, jodi melnick, dance theater workshop, contemporary dance, new york dance
| | Posted by Gia Kourlas
John Jasperse is a name you should know: his cerebral dances, acclaimed in New York and throughout Europe (William Forsythe is a fan) transformed contemporary dance beginning with 1995’s Excessories. He returns to Dance Theater Workshop this week with a trio, Becky, Jodi and John, featuring himself and two of downtown dance’s most riveting performers: Becky Hilton and Jodi Melnick.
I recommend this for the opportunity to witness extremely high-quality performers. There’s live music by Hawn Rowe (he’s a genius). But the main reason is that this dance is about dancers (the three met in New York in the mid-’80s). There’s nudity, but it’s not like Ann Liv. I won’t say anything else. Just go.
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January 5, 2007 at 10:09 pm · Filed under SLOAN, dancewear, discount, recommendation, gear, yumiko
Posted by Sloan
Our friends over at Yumiko (the fantastic dancewear brand started by Yumiko Takeshima who is now dancing with the Dresden Semper Oper) are offering a 15% discount on some of their velvet pieces…
So if it actually happens to be cold where you live (it’s suppsoed to be 68 F tomorrow here in NYC!), it might be nice to cozy up with a new longsleeve velvet leotard, as weird as that may sound.
For the record, I think Yumi’s leotards probably make up at least 60% of all of NYCB dancers’ leotard collections and have even been used for costumes! Good stuff.
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