Posts by Janice Steinberg
A Choreography Master Class: Malashock’s Everyday Dances
Gina Bolles Sorensen and Kyle Sorensen begin with “a single image and a few questions. Image: a path. Questions: How and why do we help each other along?” … Their mesmerizing “On Going” gleams with choreographic intelligence. Like a master class in choreography, much of the work in this strong program showed that kind of clarity of intention.
Read MoreLeverage: Tiler Peck and Her Brilliant Friends
Tap is percussion, it’s a conversation begun by Dorrance’s feet as the curtain opens, so clean you catch each sharp flap and the shush as she swings a foot to the side. … The piece is subtitled “Subdivisions of Time and Space, and Intersections of Isolation and Community, Longing and Joy.” If that sounds like an everything bagel of a dance, it is.
Read MoreCity Ballet Dances in the Moonlight
Can’t City Ballet of San Diego afford shirts for its male dancers? Just kidding. The bare-chested guys looked swell in a show that was a charming mix of setting—UCSD’s Epstein Family Amphitheater—and a program of superbly danced all-new work.
Read MoreBODYTRAFFIC Offers Delectable Food for Thought
BODYTRAFFIC explored an intriguing range of music-dance relationships in work by an international roster of choreographers. Two of the Los Angeles company’s pieces were set to feel-good tunes by the likes of Peggy Lee and Oscar Peterson. Another used sappy songs by male crooners as an ironic counterpoint to almost-nude male solos. And one featured James Brown classics, but often edited into distortion. It made for an evening of superb dancing by eight gorgeous movers … and rich food for thought.
Read MoreComplexions Ballet Dazzles
Propulsive, exuberant, thrilling, Complexions Contemporary Ballet brought dazzling technique and stratospheric energy to the Civic Theatre. And those bodies! Sleek, flesh-toned costumes highlighted exquisitely muscled legs and superb lines.
Read MoreLitvak Dance Offers Spellbinding Premieres
Sadie Weinberg’s vision for Litvak Dance, her four-year-old company, is to attract top choreographers to create work for her powerhouse dancers. For Litvak’s performance last weekend, Weinberg assembled an international dream team. The show featured spellbinding premieres by Israeli dancemaker Ronen Izhaki and rising New York star Rebecca Margolick.
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