There were differences in opinion in the talkback after Thursday’s world premiere of Pilobolus‘ Darkness and Light. Some gushed over the live shadow-and-color-play projected on the Page Auditorium screen. But then there were those thinly-veiled suggestions that it wasn’t even dance, that the dancers did their best to counter. (Which, actually, is more than we […]
Byron Woods
Bio: Byron Woods is the INDY's theater and dance critic.Email: [email protected]: http://twitter.com/byronwoods
Posted inArt
Pure, but not simple
Pure John Jasperse Company American Dance Festival June 16-18 “There’s nothing pure in this world.” Billy Idol, “White Wedding” “You’ll dance to anything.” Dead Milkmen, “Instant Club Hit” As phrases go, “pure dance” is one of the last stops for a critic who’s run out of time, vocabulary or, just possibly, imagination. It’s the kind […]
Posted inCulture
The Independent Review: John Jasperse Company’s “Pure”
“If Pure kids us, it’s to get us to stop kidding ourselves,” says critic Byron Woods in his analysis of John Jasperse’s world premiere. The central questions the new work poses? “What exactly is ‘pure’ movement, ‘pure’ dance? Is such a thing possible? And if so, is it actually desirable?“ Read the reprint from this […]
Posted inCulture
A different take on Stravinsky: ZviDance’s “Les Noces”
Video produced by Noreen Fagan. This video preview gives us a taste of what choreographer Zvi Goethiner sees when he hears the stark Russian folk songs and jagged polyrhythms of the work Stravinsky originally composed for the Ballets Russes…
Posted inCulture
World Premiere: John Jasperse Company’s “Pure”
Video produced by Noreen Fagan. Exclusive footage of the world premiere, in this video preview of John Jasperse Company’s Pure, this week at the American Dance Festival.
Posted inCulture
Trisha Brown Dance Company: Accumulations, Spanish Dance, and PRESENT TENSE
We look at exclusive footage from Accumulations, Spanish Dance, and PRESENT TENSE in this video preview of Trisha Brown Dance Company‘s ADF performance. The company appears, with the Nikolais Dance Theater, performed by Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, through Saturday night in Page Auditorium. Video produced by Noreen Fagan.
Posted inCulture
…so, did Kylian give you the creeps?
Okay, maybe it was drama’s night out at the ADF when the Limon Company and DCDC took the Page stage Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. By evening’s end we’d seen, among other things, homicidal suspicion, jealousy and murder in The Moor’s Pavane and sexual angst, pathological parenting and suicide (with maybe just a touch of Joan […]
Posted inNews
Only connect
connect transfer Shen Wei Dance Arts American Dance Festival June 5-7 It’s part of the artistic processand the reason why the saying has it that works of art are never finished, but abandoned. Creators play with their creations. Painters add, take away, and at times wipe out the image on a canvas by painting a […]
Posted inNews
Only connect
connect transfer Shen Wei Dance Arts American Dance Festival June 5-7 It’s part of the artistic processand the reason why the saying has it that works of art are never finished, but abandoned. Creators play with their creations. Painters add, take away, and at times wipe out the image on a canvas by painting a […]
Posted inArt
Do Shen Wei’s revisions improve Connect Transfer?
Connect Transfer Shen Wei Dance Arts American Dance Festival June 5-7 It’s part of the artistic processand the reason why the saying has it that works of art are never finished, but abandoned. Creators play with their creations. Painters add, take away, and at times wipe out the image on a canvas by painting a […]
