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All posts tagged "choreography"
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3.5KFeature ArticlesAshley Wallen on choreographing ‘Jingle Jangle’: Fun, joy and representation for all ages
The holidays can be a truly special time for all ages. With joyful music and bright lights all around, we can feel...
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5.0KFeature ArticlesBDC and Open Jar celebrate 20th anniversary of ‘Center Stage’ with master class
Believe it or not, but this year is the 20th anniversary of iconic movie Center Stage, a film loved by dancers and non-dancers alike....
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1.9KReviewsNew York City Ballet’s New Works Festival: The energy of space
October 27-31, 2020. Streaming online, filmed in the Lincoln Center Plaza and other sites in New York City. Lincoln Center: there’s a...
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4.3KInterviewsMeet Capezio Creates winner Taylor Tsvyetkov
In April, Capezio teamed up with Break the Floor Productions and Dance Informa to bring the dance world Capezio Creates. This online...
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2.1KFeature ArticlesAmerican Dance Movement unveils official 2020 National Dance Day routine
American Dance Movement (ADM), formerly the Dizzy Feet Foundation, has debuted the official 2020 National Dance Day routine with choreography by Shannon...
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1.7KReviewsSteps and leaps forward: Lonnie Stanton and Dancers’ ‘Redirect and Progress’
Davis Square, Somerville, Massachusetts.July 18, 2020. There’s something uniquely magnetic about site-specific dance work, even by the standards of this exceptionally ephemeral...
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3.8KFeature Articles‘Duet While Solo’: Bita Bell rethinks what moving in quarantine can be
Dance Informa sat down with Iran-born and U.S.-based dancer Bita Bell (PhD). A teacher at Gibney in NYC and sought-after artist both...
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2.6KReviewsClassicism and modernism in conversation: Brooklyn Ballet’s ‘Revisionist History II’
The Actors Fund Theater, Brooklyn, NY.February 13, 2020. In this post-postmodern age, both the modern and the classical are celebrated and critiqued....
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2.4KReviewsBallet Nepantla melds Mexican history with outstanding artistry in ‘Valentina’
Ailey Citigroup Theater, New York, NY.March 13, 2020. Ballet Nepantla Artistic Director Andrea Guajardo describes Valentina as telling “the untold history of the Adelitas,...
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1.7KReviewsA split bill of split approaches and qualities: Annalee Traylor and Project 44 in ‘Take Root’
Green Space, Queens, NY.February 8, 2020. Sometimes art juxtaposed with other art can reveal what all of that art really is; contrast...
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4.1KReviewsAmanda Selwyn Dance Theatre celebrates 20 years with ‘Hindsight’
Baruch Performing Arts Center, New York, NY.March 6, 2020. Hindsight marks 20 years of dancing for Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre. An accumulation of...
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3.0KReviewsOnStage Dance Company’s Season 18 Performance: The power of concept
Boston University Dance Theater, Boston, Massachusetts. January 25, 2020. Concept — it can set dance art apart from movement, make it relevant,...
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4.0KReviewsDana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company’s ‘A Tribute to Marian Anderson’: Harmonic motion
The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.February 3, 2020. Resistance can come in the form of quiet, graceful strength — in persistence,...
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2.2KReviewsSara Juli’s ‘Burnt-Out Wife’ doesn’t dance around the issue
Dixon Place, New York, NY.February 28, 2020. Sara Juli’s one-woman show, Burnt-Out Wife, is a dance-, song- and comedy-based conversation about the expectations and...
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3.5KDance Studio OwnerMeet the dancemakers of Choreography Online
These days, everything is online. You can buy and sell just about anything – clothing, groceries, even…choreography. But the idea behind Choreography Online,...
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1.8KReviewsGibney’s POP Performance: Women in Motion
The Theater at Gibney, New York, NY.January 30, 2020. Dance Informa sat down to see the Women in Motion commissions of 2020...
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2.7KFeature ArticlesWhen is it plagiarism, and when is it flattery?
“Imitation is the highest form of flattery,” the saying goes. Yet, taken to a certain extent, is it also theft? From concert...
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4.0KReviewsA Halloween spectacular: ‘Beetlejuice’ on Broadway
Winter Garden Theatre, New York, NY.November 14, 2019. “Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice!” To open, Beetlejuice was so not my favorite movie growing up. As a...
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5.4KFeature ArticlesAl Blackstone hints at latest work, ‘Norma’
Freddie Falls in Love, Happy We’ll Be and his countless hits on So You Think You Can Dance (SYTYCD) brought boundless joy,...
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3.4KFeature ArticlesThings that dancers are good at: Movement directing
Dance Informa offers you the next installment in our series on alternative dance gigs. This month, we’re talking about movement directing and...
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3.0KReviewsOne word, one dancer: BalaSole Dance Company’s ‘Evening of Solos’
Ailey Citigroup Theater, New York, NY.August 17, 2019. Less can be more, they say. Apply that to dance, and one could discuss...
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5.7KFeature Articles‘World of Dance’ choreographer Suresh Mukund heads to the Emmys
Suresh Mukund is the director and choreographer of Indian dance crew The Kings, and has recently been nominated for an Emmy in...
