Reviews

Photo: Grant Halverson

How Many Spokes Make Up The Pilobolus Wheel?

Gregory King

Pilobolus Dance Theater defies categorization, standing at the intersection of dance, gymnastics, technology and theatre arts.

A Dance of Attention

Megan Bridge

Presence isn’t about acting, or charisma, it’s about directed and specific consciousness.

Photo: A. Iziliaev

Sunbathers, Sailors, and Society Wives: Robbins at PAB

Jean-Pierre Frohlich introduced Robbins’s work as more akin to a play than to a dance: "each character has a backstory."

Photo: Michael Slobodian

Stretching the Boundaries of Dance Fusion

Gregory King

Hip-hop dance,the electric boogie, up-rocking, b-boying, popping overlapped with a la seconde turns, glissades and rond de jambes.

Photo: Bicking Photography

Unveiled: Authorial Intent

Kirsten Kaschock

In the halves of Unveiled, the ethos of each of two choreographers was prominent and compelling.

Photo: Ditta Baron Hoeber

DANCE WITH CAMERA: A Sequence in Fifteen Stanzas

Dancer Asimina Chremos and photographer/poet Ditta Baron Hoeber share improvisational space.

Photo: Alexander Iziliaev

Hamlet–To Dance or Not To Dance, A Question

Jonathan Stein

The simple but powerful choreography brings to mind ballet’s court dance origins and connotations of rarified class and privilege.

Photo: Stephen Delas Heras

BeginAgain: A Narrative Reinvented

Gregory King

An imaginative world of carnal movements and attention-grabbing video...creative collective intellect...a state of heightened curiosity and pure ecstasy.

Photo: Ellen Chenoweth

This Is Not a Gentle Piece

Ellen Chenoweth

In more than 300 performances, three vocalists from The Crossing whistled a piece composed by David Lang, while encircling a 4.5 billion year old rock.

Image: Andrew Jeffrey Wright

Dancing When Everybody’s Watching

Whitney Weinstein

This was a celebration of the human form in all its awkwardness.