Posts Tagged ‘White Box’
Widening the Lens in Beautiful, Horizontal ‘Body Without Body Within’
new perspective and intimacy in Body Without Body Within in beautiful horizontal mode…
Read MoreLive Arts Fest Honors Dance Legacies and Makes Critic Sweat
When we had to do a movement phrase crossing the floor, I started to think that being onstage was a very bad idea. This year’s Live Arts Fest offered not just a look at dance legacies, but actual somatic experience. Plus a lesson that choreographers age incredibly well … Bella Lewitzky started her company at 50 and led it for 30 years; and Robert Cohan, whom the little festival that could brought from London, showed a fresh new work he’d created at 90.
Read MoreWhy Everyone’s Talking ’bout Walking in ‘This Land is Your Land’
youTurn has landed more than a dance hit in Mark Haim’s influential This Land is Your Land… Producers Erica Buechner and Anne Gehman are writing a remarkable success story, and 14 of San Diego’s favorite dancers are walking their way into the hearts and minds of viewers with questions about identity, consumer waste, and gun violence.
Read MorePouring Dance and Karaoke into a Blender for ‘HAPPY HOUR’ with Monica Bill Barnes
“I’m interested in the amateur aspects of performance… I love karaoke because performers just stand up and perform, without any safety nets. I’m fascinated by the bravery of that…”
Read MoreDangerous Dance, Spoken Word in ‘Damaged Goods’
While he describes psychotherapy with his shrink, dancers become coat racks and furniture. Without a hitch, he flings his coat onto their heads and fingers and sputters about his guilt for surviving…
Read MoreLive Arts Fest Features New Dance Companies from SD and SF
Guts, grit, and women with a bitch of a time getting their dresses to zip when Women of Viv and Lavina Rich’s Push Process deconstruct glamour at the Live Arts Fest.
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