Byron Woods

Greetings from the Dancing for the Camera Film Festival, ADF’s annual curated showings of experimental and documentary films on dance. (And vice versa.) I’m posting from White Lecture Hall (next to the East Duke building — appropriately enough on Duke’s East campus), where we’re actually in an intermission on Friday night. It’s just long enough […]

Quoted, from today’s Independent Weekly: “In a career of dystopic performances that have let audiences examine the suffering of humans and nature on an almost frame-by-frame basis, this one was a stand-out. Call it a strangely blighted rite of spring, an implacable fertility ritual which revealed the grotesquery of dehumanized sex; ultimately, a work which […]

Live arts critic and correspondent Byron Woods previews Shen Wei Dance Arts’ Folding. His company performs it and The Rite of Spring Monday and Tuesday night in Reynolds Theater at 8 p.m.

From the June 27th Independent Weekly… Garden: Retreat RushesLisa Race Pilobolus4 stars 4 1/2 stars The ballroom of our common loss Lisa Race’s dance with life and death precedes Pilobolus’ best in years by Byron Woods Insiders know that the mainstage shows are the tip of the iceberg when it comes to dance performances at […]

The second of ADF’s Acts to Follow showcases devoted to North Carolina choreographers convenes in Baldwin Auditorium at 8 p.m. Highlights: former Trisha Brown dancer Niki Juralewicz‘s Elemental, described as a “tender, vicious, and playful” series of solos, trios, and duets, Ashlee Ramsey and Katheryn Ullom‘s No, I Agree, a study in mixed messages we […]

Michael Helland and Daniel Linehan have been busy in the New York city (review, anyone?). Tonight, a solo apiece: Linehan is Not About Everything, before Helland dresses up Dress Up Piece. At 9. At the Ark. Free.

A clip from Jiri Kylian’s sensuous Petit Mort, in which the discipline of love is occasionally administered at the edge of a fencer’s foil. En garde, indeed… Hubbard Street Dance Chicago shows tonight and tomorrow night at 8 p.m. in Page Auditorium.

“You’ve got to see her, Byron,” legendary dance critic Anna Kisselgoff said just moments before the Chelyabinsk show. “She’s tinybut she moves like crazy.” Kisselgoff was referring to Elena Saizafarova, a French dancer/choreographer of Russian descent whose work has just recently received a major dance award in Rome. “There’s one piece in particular,” Kisselgoff whispered. […]

Latest update (6 p.m. Tuesday): ADF administration reported $1,425 in donations toward the SunTrust Carolinas Group Foundation challenge grant of $6,500 to cover the travel costs of the Argentine dance companies left high and dry by Marca Argentina on June 19 after its February commitment to bring them here. The sordid story thus far can […]