Posts by Janice Steinberg
Tijuana-Tipperary Dance Explores the Self and the World
Lux Boreal’s collaboration with a dance company from Tipperary produces off-kilter wobbles and a human om, to music that could be the soundtrack for one of the moodier Western films.
Read MoreJuicy Improv from Eric Geiger
Was it about a bus ride in a Third World Country? Sex? Bodies? Eric Geiger’s “Kingdom for Sale (better history)” made space for viewers’ imaginations.
Read MoreAxxiom’s Guys Shine
Michael Reid and John Paul Lawson are both big, powerful athlete-dancers, and they combine all that power with clean, graceful lines, making their pirouettes and wheeling leaps the highlight of Axxiom Dance Collective’s show at the Vine on Sunday evening.
Read MoreDesperate and Gentle Characters at SD Fringe Festival
On the last day of the San Diego Fringe Festival, there’s still one more chance to see “Oyster Boy” (today at 5 p.m.) and “The Desperate Characters of Mercer County” (6:30 p.m.), both at Space 4 Art. Both shows have their charms, for instance, the Greek/Hawaiian chorus in “Oyster Boy.”
Read MoreLux Boreal Offers Dark, Provocative Dance at SD Fringe
Internationally known for its complex, provocative work and technically stunning dancers, Lux Boreal is a very hot ticket at the San Diego Fringe Festival. Very hot and very bleak.
Read MoreGalas’ Incandescent Prose Makes for Two Fringe Must-Sees
It’s brilliant that the premiere San Diego Fringe Festival is presenting what amounts to a Philip-Dimitri Galas retrospective. An incandescently talented artist, Galas invented his own genre, “avante-vaudeville,” to describe his combination of physical theater and explosive, poetic language, and the term seems Fringe-perfect.
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