Articles
Cooking, Cake and Conversation at the LAB
The Live Arts Brewery (LAB) hosts an open showing each month to allow performing artists to receive immediate feedback.
December 14, 2011
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Chouinard #2: Too Much of a Good Thing?
Chouinard’s dancers threw themselves into the choreography and whipped through each phrase like demonic beasts. It’s just too bad Chouinard didn’t mix it up a bit.
December 14, 2011
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Chouinard #3: Marie Chouinard's Creatures
Wearing black bathing suits and hair-dos that brought to mind tentacles or caterpillars, Chouinard’s ten dancers gasped, writhed, spoked, stamped, and slithered through the company’s impassioned performance.
December 14, 2011
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Chouinard #4: Instructed by Creature
A troupe of aliens arrives in our midst. They are muscular, flightless bird creatures, and the first thing they hear is Chopin.
December 14, 2011
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Chouinard #5: Ballet on Hyperdrive
I’m always curious what will happen when a singular performer makes work for a big troupe. Which qualities will s/he pass along?
December 14, 2011
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Compagnie Marie Chouinard Swoops on the Annenberg
Chouinard’s work “reflects her deepest concerns as an artist...each new work must invent and explore a whole new universe.”
December 14, 2011
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Ties That Bind at the Painted Bride
A nice sampling of the city’s young professionals, as well as food for thought on the ties that manifest in the lifeworld of an art scene, and the pleasures and challenges of shared concerts.
December 14, 2011
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