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Perpetual Motion for Its Own Sake: Brian Brooks Moving Company at ADF
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 7/17/12 IN THE ARTERY AT INDYWEEK.COM. From DESCENT. Photo: Christopher Duggan, courtesy of ADF. Brian Brooks makes a big production out of very little material. He choreographs...
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UNDIVIDED DIVIDED: Shen Wei @ Home with ADF @ NC Museum of Art
A slim man of unusual grace glides silently through the quiet clusters of art-viewers at the North Carolina Museum of Art, pausing here and there to contemplate the work-in-progress spread through...
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Michael Trusnovec leads inspired dancing as ADF hosts Paul Taylor
Paul Taylor always puts together programs that juxtapose his dances in ways that allow his ideas to rub up against each other. They are as carefully composed as a gallery of paintings, curated along...
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Footprints Lead to Nothing in Irksome ADF Program
“I’ve seen some things I hated at the American Dance Festival over the years. Most of them weren’t bad art: They ran counter to my tastes and philosophies. This week’s ADF program in Reynolds Theater,...
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Just One Night Left: Mark Morris Closes ADF 2012
Mark Morris Dance Group in “Festival Dance.” Photo: Stephanie Berger, courtesy of ADF. The American Dance Festival closes its 2012 performance season this weekend at the Durham Performing Arts Center,...
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It’s the last weekend for prima ballerina Melissa Podcasy at Carolina Ballet....
Melissa Podcasy photo on Carolina Ballet program (9-15-12, 8 pm) by Tim Lytvinenko. At 15, Raleigh’s Carolina Ballet ends its first era. Founding principal dancer Melissa Podcasy will retire at the end...
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ELSEWHERE: A CelloOpera Premieres at Carolina Performing Arts
A moment from the Carolina Performing Arts-commissioned ELSEWHERE, a total work of art by Maya Beiser, Robert Woodruff, and assorted other artists. Photo courtesy the artists/CPA. What did you do last...
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Stripped to the Essence: Compagnie Marie Chouinard Goes to the Throbbing...
Compagnie Marie Chouinard first came to Chapel Hill from Montreal in 2009, with a jaw-dropping performance of Chouinard’s Orpheus et Eurydice, which was co-commissioned by Carolina Performing Arts....
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A RITE Has Its World Premiere at Carolina Performing Arts
My review of the world premiere of the Carolina Performing Arts-commisioned A Rite, by Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and the SITI Company, was published 1/28/13 in CVNC.org. A Rite, at its...
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Finally, the Original RITE (sort of): The Joffrey Ballet performs two intense...
The Small Maidens in Red from The Joffrey Ballet’s The Rite of Spring. Photo: Herbert Migdoll. Chicago’s sleek company, The Joffrey Ballet, made a two-night appearance in Chapel Hill March 23 and 24,...
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The Rightest RITE: Nederlands Dans Theater’s CHAMBER, and more, at CPA
Nederlands Dans Theater 1 is one of the most thrilling and powerful dance-theater companies anywhere, and this week they are performing in Chapel Hill, as part of Carolina Performing Arts‘ The Rite of...
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Basil Twist’s Enchanted Air Ballet Premieres at CPA, program repeats 4/13
The end of Twist’s CPA-commissioned THE RITE OF SPRING, in development at the Basil Twist Residency, March 2013; Memorial Hall, Chapel Hill, NC. KPO Photo. “This is the program I’ve been most nervous...
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Martha Graham Company closes super-season at Carolina Performing Arts
PeiJu Chien-Pott and Abdiel Jacobsen in Martha Graham’s Errand into the Maze. Photo: Terry-Lin. PeiJu Chien-Pott and Ben Schultz in Errand, in Chapel Hill. KPO Photo. Martha Graham herself was my...
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Shen Wei Dance Arts at DPAC as ADF Begins Its 80th Season
Shen Wei Dance Arts is appearing again tonight at the Durham Performing Arts Center, opening the American Dance Festival‘s 80th season with a two-dance program that emphasizes the ADF’s crucial role...
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The 605 Collective Stomps the Auteur Approach to Choreography
The 605 Collective. Photo: David Cooper. A very interesting small company from Vancouver, Canada, made its American Dance Festival debut June 15. The 605 Collective will repeat its fierce and funny...
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R-E-S-P-E-C-T: NC Dancers at ADF
Lindsey Kelley and Mindy Upin, in a rare still moment in their delightful work A TRIBUTE AND A REFLECTION OF THE RELATIONSHIP. Photo: Grant Halverson, courtesy ADF. The American Dance Festival teamed...
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Pilobolus, Back in the Groove, as ADF continues at DPAC
From Licks, June 20, 2013, DPAC. Photo: Grant Halverson, courtesy ADF.Just this week I had to explain what Pilobolus is, to a woman in my Pilates class, so I know that not everyone knows about this...
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Faye Driscoll’s YOU’RE ME at ADF
Jesse Zarritt and Faye Driscoll in her YOU’RE ME, at ADF through the 25th. Photo Steven Schreiber. I saw only five people walk out of the first of three performances by Faye Driscoll in Reynolds...
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ADF @ The Nasher: Mark Haim
This Land Is Your Land, repeats tonight only The American Dance Festival and the Nasher Museum of Art are doing an extremely cool thing, co-presenting an unusual dance by Mark Haim in the museum’s...
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ADF Takes A.I.M to DPAC: Kyle Abraham’s Stunning Style Goes Big
Kyle Abraham, who appeared for the first time last year at the American Dance Festival with his marvelous dance The Radio Show, is back this year with a two-performance run on the big stage at the...
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