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Criticals, Dance

Neil Greenberg Questions the Right Way to Walk

October 1, 2008

Published in Attitude: The Dancer’s Magazine, Fall 2008 I got a recessive jolt watching Really Queer Dances with Harps, Neil Greenberg’s intelligent, distanced new work that premiered this spring at Dance Theater Workshop. As a boy, not only was I cursed with a first name ripe for playground mutilation; I had, to quote my sister’s boyfriend at…

Criticals, Dance

Making the Broadway Musical Dance

July 20, 2008

Laura Belle Bundy (in pink) and the company of Legally Blonde: The Musical Published in Attitude: The Dancers Magazine, Summer 2008 “Come and meet those dancing feet.” So beckoned the great Harry Warren’s lyrics to 42nd Street, the title song of a 1932 movie musical that gave a behind-the-scenes look at the making of a Broadway…

Criticals, Dance

Building Bridges

July 15, 2008

Published in Attitude: The Dancers Magazine, Summer 2008 Food for thought arose before the performance of Akram Khan’s zero degrees even began: we in the audience pondered the significance of two inanimate dummies posed on either side of a stage populated with not much else excepted a wash of light. Soon the lights came up behind the…

Art, Dance, Film, Food and Drink, Travel

I feel like a Grecian Dog

June 30, 2008

Back from Greece and jet-lagged to beat the band. First stop was Santorini where J and I attended a wedding for our pals Nia and Mark. The island is a poem of sky and sea and volcanic mountains, and the perfect setting for the union of two beautiful people (and one of my oldest friends—Nia…

Art, Dance, Fashion, Museums/Galleries, Music

Bye Bo, Bye Yves…

June 3, 2008

Two ultras, cultural touchstones in wildly disparate ways. Seems like all the cool people are checking out of this world. Imagine–heaven must be hoppin’

Criticals, Dance

In Second Position

March 1, 2008

Published in Attitude: The Dancer’s Magazine Vol 22, No. 1 Spring 2008 Take one look at Lisa Thorn, and the last word that comes to mind is veteran. The petite, preternaturally beautiful blonde radiates such unspoiled youth and bonhomie, it’s easier to imagine her back home in the loaming fields of Virgil, NY, where she…

Criticals, Dance

The Drag is Dancing

January 15, 2008

Published in Attitude: The Dancer’s Magazine, Winter 2008 It made perfect sense to shante, not walk, to your seat at the first performance of the Legendary House of Ninja’s The East is Red, a presentation of Dance Theater Workshop’s Studio Series on November 5, 2007; to a sinuous techno throb, one young patron earned cheers from the…

Art, Dance, Museums/Galleries, Music, Theater

The Hounds of Winter

December 3, 2007

Funny thing about that Broadway strike—I thought the reduced slate of plays and musicals might grant me a reprieve from the monstrous crowds clogging Times Square’s streets, Sephora, the Virgin Megastore and the sidewalk below MTV’s studios in the Minskoff Building. Didn’t happen, so I sucked up the inconvenience, dodging the starry-eyed out of towners…

Criticals, Dance

Stories of Us

November 17, 2007

Le Vu Long/Together Higher, DTW Fall 2007 The remarkable elements of Dance Theater Workshop’s presentation of Stories of Us are established before the show begins. In this new piece by Le Vu Long/Together Higher, the audience is treated to an attenuated prologue in which not much happens, encouraging us to take in the hushed, vesper-tinged lighting and…

Criticals, Dance

Ohad Naharin Unbound

October 29, 2007

Published in Attitude: The Dancer’s Magazine, Fall issue, 2007 No one who’s witnessed Ohad Naharin’s choreographic genius would blame the former artistic director of Israel’s Batsheva Dance Company if he coasted on his prodigious talent, one that has rewarded New York audiences since the 1990s. But in Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet’s mounting of DECADANCE, a…