Oyster communicates at once the hard exterior of staged spectacle and the inner vulnerability of its performers.
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.
In this season of Nutcrackers, feuding Republicans, and holiday kitsch, the Annenberg’s Dance Celebration Series brought us “Champions of the Dance.”
Chouinard’s work “reflects her deepest concerns as an artist...each new work must invent and explore a whole new universe.”
Our correspondent reports why you'll see him in the front row at the Annenberg for Champions of Dance.
A light-filled mobile, electronic music, patches of light, and five performers who dance, speak, act, and finish the mobile’s assemblage – all weave integrally into the work’s fabric.
Born in India and raised in Paris, this “child of the east and west” has been hailed by critics for transcending culture...