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Kung Fu Razzle Dazzle
Shooting star! Cole Horibe as Bruce Lee. Photo: Joan MarcusKung Fu, the new show by David Henry Hwang, directed by Leigh Silverman at Signature Theater, is an immensely entertaining stage version of...
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TAO Dance Theater—Revolutionary Forms
5. Photo: Fan XiTAO Dance Theater slipped into New York last weekend as part of China: Visions + Voices at Skirball Center. I'd seen them previously at Lincoln Center Festival and Fall For Dance, when...
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The Need for Speed
Ivo Pannaggi, Speeding Train (Treno in corsa), 1922, oil on canvas, 100 x 120 cmFondazione Carima–Museo Palazzo Ricci, Macerata, Italy. Photo: Courtesy Fondazione Cassa di risparmio della Provincia di...
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Michael Trusnovec Returns to the Dark Side
Michael Trusnovec in Banquet of Vultures. Photo: Tom CaravagliaThe Paul Taylor Dance Company begins its 60th season at the Koch Theater on Tuesday March 11, presenting nearly 20 dances over three...
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The Biennial's Uptown Salvo
Carol Jackson, Slip, 2013As important as it is, the Whitney Biennial is but one barometer of the state of the art world today—and I'm talking about just this week in New York. Coincidentally, along...
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Q&A with Paul Taylor's Transcendant Eran Bugge
Eran Bugge getting a lift from Rob Kleinendorst in Esplanade. Photo: Paul B. GoodeOn PTSE—Paul Taylor Season Eve—here's a conversation with Eran Bugge, a dancer of uncommon lyricism and velvety...
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Gelsey Kirkland Ballet, Taking the Classics Seriously
Cristian Laverde Koenig and Dawn Gierling in Leaves Are Fading pas. Photo: Eduardo PatinoWhat place is there in contemporary dance for classical ballet dating from the mid-19th century? Gelsey Kirkland...
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Paul Taylor Company—0 to 60 and Back Again
Cloven Kingdom, the perfect gala dance. Photo: Paul B. GoodePaul Taylor opened its 60th season last Tuesday at the Koch Theater, but there's little time to celebrate this momentous milestone. Yesterday...
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LAC—A Stylish, Rejiggered Swan Lake
Anja Behrend as the White Swan, Stephan Bourgond as the Prince. Photo by Angela SterlingCliché alert: absence does make the heart grow fonder. After seeing Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo perform...
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American Dreamer—Reverie on Working in Dance
Michael Apuzzo and Michelle Fleet in American Dreamer. Photo: Tom CaravagliaAmerican Dreamer could be read as a nostalgic reverie about the daily life of a dance company. Santo Loquasto's set places it...
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Martha Graham, Reduced
PeiJu Chien-Pott and Lorenzo Pagano in EchoI'm all for brevity—there is no sweeter lyric than "one hour, no intermission"—but not necessarily when it comes to reducing full-length Martha Graham dances...
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Humanity in the Machine
Michael Trusnovec in Banquet of Vultures. Photo: Tom CaravagliaMarathon Cadenzas, the second season premiere for Paul Taylor Dance Company, evokes the carnival glossed nefariousness of Taylor's Big...
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Petronio at 30—C'mon baby, see the Locomotor
Joshua Tuason and Melissa Toogood in Locomotor. Photo: Yi-Chun WuStephen Petronio's group premiere, Locomotor, is a stunning dance and a worthy milestone to mark the company's 30th year. It isn't easy...
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Trisha Brown Dance Company Moves Forward by Looking Back
Opal Loop. Photo: Ian DouglasIt was just coincidence that the companies of Trisha Brown and Stephen Petronio, who began his professional career as a dancer for her, had coincidental runs at,...
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Sigmar Polke—Artistic Chameleon
Supermarkets, 1976, Gouache; metallic, enamel, acrylic paints; felt-tip pen; collage on 9 sheets of paper on canvasLiebelt Collection, HamburgSigmar Polke was an artistic chameleon, moving from one...
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Ai Weiwei in the BK
Moon Chest, 2008. Seven chests in huali wood, each 126"x63"x31.5". Photo: Susan YungThe Brooklyn Museum's show Ai Weiwei: According to What? is a sweeping look at this provocateur's work, which has...
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Lebbeus Woods, Architect?
San Francisco Project: Inhabiting the Quake, Quake City, 1995Architectis an insistent title for a show of Lebbeus Woods' work at the Drawing Center (through June 15), since he was never overly...
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Snow White and the Seven Aerialists
Miner/dwarves descending the rock wall. Photo: Jean Claude CarbonneThe Grimms' fairy tale Snow White contains some pretty horrific events, revealing the worst (but also better) sides of human nature,...
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DTH Aims High
New Bach. Photo: Rachel NevilleHere's the thing about being a Ballet company. There is a standard canon that must be mastered, a kind of core curriculum that you must pass in order to be awarded a...
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Mel Bochner—Strong Language
Portrait of Eva Hesse, 1966. Ink on graph paper, 4-3/8" diam. Private collection.Mel Bochner was playing with the graphic possibilities of language and numbers long before word clouds—and personal...
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