Sarah Ledbetter

If anything is subversive to corporate culture, it’s a bunch of total strangers swinging each other around a large, open space and telling stories with no words in them. When you’re strapped–hands to necks and backs–to the momentum of another human being, you don’t need to ask questions. You just need to fly. The people […]

In an interview with Dance writer Iris Fanger, Sean Curran said, “I feel that where one dance ends, another dance begins.” The evening of Curran’s work presented by N.C. State’s CenterStage last Friday proved that while a choreographer’s body of work can speak eloquently as a whole, the connections between the parts can be alternately […]

I‘m going to my room to be cool now, and I don’t want to be disturbed. That’s the name of Mark Dendy Dance and Theater’s evening-length work, which premiered June 26 at ADF. The fabulous title was rivaled only by a dance so fleshy, so unremitting, so proud of itself that it bordered on tacky. […]

Picture performance artist and choreographer Ann Carlson on the back of a horse named Cupid. She’s coming around a barrel at top speed when she thinks twice about going around a second time. In her moment of ambivalence, she’s tossed from the horse’s back. During one of the midshow conversations spliced throughout “Premiere” and “Grass/Bird/Rodeo” […]