“The Resilience Project”
ClancyWorks Dance Company
Dance Place
Washington, DC
April 14, 2018

“The Resilience Project,” performed at Dance Place this past weekend by ClancyWorks Dance Company, investigated how an individual responds to and recovers from a blow. The show included additional performances from the Dance Place Repertory Class and The Ensemble from the University of Bedfordshire, and incorporated dancers with a variety of technical levels to offer a diversity of movement approaches, all relating to the theme of resilience.

"Charm", "Rapid Oxidation", "Shanti"
Tom Gold Dance
The Kay Playhouse at Hunter College
New York, New York
April 10, 2018

Tom Gold, a former soloist with the New York City Ballet, celebrated the tenth year of his chamber company with a brief New York season showing three of his works, including one premiere, "Rapid Oxidation". As a dancer, Gold was noted for his outgoing, engaging personality and his scrupulous but never flashy technique and he has brought these gifts, along

"Shoot the Moon", "The Statement", "Singulière Odyssée"
Nederlands Dans Theater
Opera House
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Washington, DC
April 5, 2018

This past Thursday, the Nederlands Dans Theater offered a thrilling program, delivering a riveting intensity to the Kennedy Center stage. In three ballets, Paul Lightfoot and Sol Léon, as Artistic Director and Advisor respectively, presented lively, modern stories and showcased a performance full of current relevance and intrigue. Since 1959, NDT has

"Nijinsky"
National Ballet of Canada
War Memorial Opera House
San Francisco, CA
April 3, 2018

John Neumeier’s 2000 “Nijinsky”, excellently performed by the National Ballet of Canada, is certainly a sui generis extravaganza – a mixture of psychodrama and Cecil B. DeMille. Neumeier is a brilliant designer. His costumes veered from the Edwardian for the hotel guests to modernist flapper ones and reconstructions from Ballets Russes ballets. The two-part set –- secessionist touches for the Suvretta Hotel and

“Signals,” “Wild Wild World,” “Hardness 10”
Stephen Petronio Company
Joyce Theater
New York, NY
March 20, 2018

It is all right there. Stephen Petronio is in the middle of a five-year project (maybe longer,) “Bloodlines,” in which he remounts and reflects on the influence of the great choreographers who have been his mentors and inspirations. In the current offering, the link is beautifully clear to the stunning genetic material that he gleaned from Merce Cunningham, whose “Signals” (1970) opened

"Menagerie", "Myriad", "The Outset"
The Washington Ballet
Harman Hall
Washington, DC
March 18, 2018 at 1:30 PM 

The surprise of this ambitious bill of three brand new ballets was the similarity of the dramatic theme which tantalized the 3 different, rather new choreographers. Clifton Brown, Gemma Bond and Marcelo Gomes addressed the relationship of the individual to that person's group. I suspect the similarity wasn't due to collusion but astonished the dance makers and also Julie

Dance Around Town
"Path of Miracles"
Grace Cathedral
Feb. 10, 2018
"What We Carry What We Keep
"News of the World"
March 15, 2018
Buena Vista Center for the Arts Theater
San Francisco, CA

For the last four decades, Brenda Way and KT Nelson have shared the stage during ODC Dance’s annual spring season; Nelson, at first as a superb dancer, today as a choreographer with her own distinct voice. This year the company changed its format. In a