DANCE REVIEWS
Live Arts Festival / Hip Hop’s Moms & Pops Declare Twerk-Free Zone
“Love H.E.R.” that kicked off the Live Arts Festival’s ten day run at the White Box was a provocative twerk-free family zone with some sharp edges to keep it authentic, real. Without profanity, misogyny and baggy pants dragging things down…
Read More“Don’t Fall” – “CrutchMaster” Bill Shannon Dances, Skateboards, Does Fall
With a congenital deformity in both hips, Bill Shannon needs crutches in order to stand and walk. So he’s come up with a unique way to dance, using Rocker crutches and – whee! – a skateboard. He performs and shares his investigations into “projected narratives” of disability at the White Box this weekend.
Read MoreDance and the Right to Privacy at YouTurn
YouTurn 2014 offered an intriguing progression from a highly performative dance, to one combining a personal focus with performance, to a piece so private it was like peeking through curtains into the dancer’s living room. It also proved that, while bubble wrap never gets old, body painting does.
Read More‘The World Goes ‘Round’ Wobbles, Wows at AVO
Benjamin Lopez leads the cast in “Pain,” the hilarious song and dance spoof that makes fun of plies, Martha Graham, and conceited windbag choreographers. The group ends up dancing…
Read MorePGK’s ‘San Diego Dances’ at You Are Here – And We Were There
The premiere of Deluge by the gifted Khamla Somphanh is smartly constructed and layered, yet easy and exciting to watch. Dancers stretched outward as if praying for rain but were quickly swept up in a…
Read MoreCity Ballet of SD’s ‘Balanchine Masterworks’ is Thrilling, Timeless Treat
While the subject of the ballet is ancient, the dance is contemporary. As Apollo, Geoffrey Gonzalez climbed up and down a wooden framework that evoked a vintage lifeguard tower. His sheer white costuming suggested he was a god who…
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