Review of NYCB’s stunning fall program
Tag: Dance
Robbins Bigonzetti Ratmansky
The September 25 evening program of the New York City Ballet’s fall season opened with Opus 19/The Dreamer, set to Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, the composer’s first violin concerto and often referred to as “music in technicolor.” So, too, Jerome Robbins’ colorful dance, with lead couple Tiler Peck and Gonzalo Garcia, and a…
New York City Ballet stuns with fall program
NYCB stuns in fall opening program
Olivier Wevers’ “This Is Not the Little Prince”
Olivier Wevers’ This Is Not the Little Prince is a captivating and emotional work. It is demanding on the dancers for the challenging movement and ensemble psyche Wevers asks them to create onstage. The piece is both playful and dramatic, a tour de force of surrealism. As I wrote in Dance Magazine, “[the piece]…
Bravo! Mark Morris Dance Group performs!
See here for details—40 years of lyrical joy: Mark Morris Dance Group performs. Image/credit: https://markmorrisdancegroup.org/digital-access/
Wendy Perron’s Dance
Read this terrific book: The Grand Union: Accidental Anarchists of Downtown Dance, 1970-1976 New York Times: Grand Union at the New York City Dance Marathon, at the 14th Street Y in 1971/Credit James Klosty, via Wesleyan University Press
Helping dancers work together!
An interesting story, on keeping dancers working.
FoodWISE and eating fat to lose fat?
Eat fat to lose fat? Gigi Berardi reads FoodWISE, on the body’s daily nutrient requirements and how it very cleverly adjusts when we practice caloric restriction (via ketosis and more). And, two articles tonight, what’s a clean wine after what’s a clean wine after all? AND food security issues, again. Image, my preferred…
FoodWISE, the cost of convenience, and ballet companies pivoting
Gigi Berardi reads FoodWISE, on industry credibility and advertising, and the cost of convenience—and then talks about national ballet companies that are pivoting during the coronavirus pandemic. Bravo! For example, see: NYCB’s fall. San Francisco Ballet’s season begins January 19: SFB’s fall image: sfballet.org
FoodWISE, biodiversity, sweet tomatoes, Mennonite farmers, and a very bold dance company
Gigi Berardi reads FoodWISE, about biodiversity and the old-order Mennonite farmers she lived with, but then extends that to the world of dance—her other great passion. Very bold is Olivier Wevers and his Whim W’Him dancers, as they announce their all-digital 2020-2021 season. Search for: “SEATTLE CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY WHIM W’HIM LAUNCHES ALL-DIGITAL SEASON 11…