"Brigadoon"
New York City Center
New York, New York
November 16, 2017.

New York City Center's Encore Series has traditionally given revivals of musicals in stripped-down, partially staged, script-clutching performances, offering current stars a chance to perform those glorious songs without having to commit blocks of time to rehearsals. The series' gala production of Lerner and Loewe's "Brigadoon", directed and choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon, did have glorious songs, but it was fully (if economically) staged and

"Work"
Kim Yong-geo Dance Theater from Korea
Terrace Theater
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Washington, DC
November 9, 2017

"Work" could use a sense of play, of gracious relaxation, of elegance. This hour plus display, choreographed by Yong-geol Kim, is crammed full with different dance numbers and has, sometimes, a military air – especially when its corps de ballet struts onto the stage in marching file. For the opening, though, there were no bodies, no

"5", Ganz leise kommt die Nacht / The Night Falls Quietly", "On the Nature of Daylight", "Vertigo Maze"
Dresden Semperoper Ballett
The Joyce Theater
New York, NY
November 1, 2017

The Dresden Semperoper Ballet, founded in 1823, boasts a roster of sixty dancers, and a repertory which, during the 2017-2018 season, encompasses everything from Petipa's "Sleeping Beauty" to Justin Peck's "Heatscape". Its inaugural season at The Joyce included eleven dancers from all ranks of the company (among them

"Balance and Imbalance"
Bereishit Dance Company of Seoul, Korea
Millennium Stage South
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Washington, DC
November 7, 2017

Words that indicate opposites - "traditional" and "contem- porary" – appear in the printed program for choreographer Soon-ho Park's piece for a pair of drummers, a vocalist and five dancers. Indeed, what the eyes see on stage, and on the huge overhead video screen, is quite diverse in terms of dress, age and action,

"Dancing Voices" 
Meredith Monk and the Young People's Chorus of New York 
Lincoln Center White Light Festival
New York 
October 20, 2017 

As an artist Meredith Monk has never done just one thing at a time. With “Dancing Voices,” which helped kick off Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival this weekend, she attempts both a retrospective of her own career as composer-choreographer and a transmission of her dharma to a new generation of artists.

DEMO: Jerome Robbins – American Dance Genius
Terrace Theater 
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Washington, DC
October 20, 2017 

The centennial of Jerome Robbins’ birth in 2018 will spur big celebrations. This first one, part of Damian Woetzel’s Demo series, was small in scale and simple in format. Oddly, it suited the ballet choreographer and director of musicals, movies and television productions who had started as an American character dancer and became a complex