"Estado Vegetal"
Manuela Infante
Baryshnikov Arts Center, New York
May 3, 2019
In medical Spanish, "Estado Vegetal" means a vegetative state, where basic life functions go on but consciousness and thought are absent. Politically, a "Vegetative State" could mean rule by the plant kingdom. This intense theatrical piece, starring a young Chilean woman and an array of potted plants, suggests such a state is exactly where humanity is headed.
The plot is a parable – an
"One. One & One"
Vertigo Dance Company
Baryshnikov Arts Center, New York
March 6, 2019
Except for a neat row of dirt at the front of the stage, the opening section of “One. One & One” by Israel’s Vertigo Dance Company looks much like the closing elegy of George Balanchine’s “Serenade.” It’s a solemn communal idyll, to sonorous cellos in a minor key, with a motif of dancers leaning on each other for balance and support.
"Blak Whyte Gray"
Boy Blue
Michael "Mikey J" Asante, Creative Direction and Music
Kenrick "H2O" Sandy, Choreography
Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College
Lincoln Center White Light Festival
November 16, 2018
Members of Boy Blue held a post-performance chat last night after the US premiere of "Blak Whyte Gray," and it was a shock to hear their British accents. Their intense and acrobatic hip-hop dancing was straight from the streets of New York
film review
"Waiting for Godot"
By Samuel Beckett, directed by Garry Hynes
Gerald W. Lynch Theater, Lincoln Center, New York
November 5, 2018
"Andy Warhol – From A to B and Back Again"
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Opening November 12, 2018
In the mid-20th century, Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” seemed like an end game. Two vagabonds meet daily by a tree, and hope for a deliverance that never comes.
"Split"
Lucy Guerin Inc
Baryshnikov Arts Center
New York
October 13, 2018
Two women – one naked, one in a modest blue dress – dance parallel figures to the sound of drums, on a bare stage marked off by a square of white tape. The gestures suggest a range of human activities: play, sport, religious ritual, repetitive work, rest, sex, sleep, and dance itself, ballet and modern and folk. The moves are identical but look different, articulate and sensuous