Coming from the nothing-is-too-weird-to-be-performed contemporary dance world, I went out on a limb by agreeing to write about "Pushing Boundaries: Forsythe and Neenan."
We can’t take our eyes off of this sweaty crew of risk-takers and are impressed by the dedication of their student counterparts.
Lindsay Browning filled her piece with rich and lovely components, but lacked a clear thread to link them.
Green Chair Dance Group's constant interaction with the audience served to include us in what otherwise could have been a very insular topic: the dancers’ relationships with one another.
Oyster communicates at once the hard exterior of staged spectacle and the inner vulnerability of its performers.
I was peering into the window of a stranger’s bedroom from the outside. The world of Lesya Popil’s Uninvited Guest was mostly private, and exposed.
In his Poetics, Aristotle derided spectacle as the least important artistic aspect of a performance. RubberbanDance Group’s Gravity of Center shows that sometimes, spectacle’s all you’ve got.
A carefully calibrated explosion of grandiosity, Bauer’s solo is a study of opposing forces in collaboration.
The nEW Festival presented four new works by its 2012 resident choreographers. Ellen Gerdes and Kilian Kröll attended, between them, four performances. They each wrote about the pieces, then mashed their words together.
The first of two evenings of improvised dancing from Falls Bridge.