New York, N.Y. 7:1, an interdisciplinary collaboration between Mannes School of Music and Rovaco Dance Company, was conceived by choreographer Rohan Bhargava and composer Alexander Chadwell. The goal: to create an opportunity for young music makers to try their hand at creating for dance and budding choreographers to produce commissioned work with bespoke music. One […]
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An Exercise in Empathy: cullen + them’s Spring Messaround
New York, N.Y. MESSAROUND /mehs-ah-round/ n. a creative social experiment; an open, radical event where we make a mess of what we think we know about others; a place to mingle, move, listen, and experience a collision of ideas. This is how cullen + them, the choreographic project of native New Yorker Hannah Cullen, defines […]
Pool Play 2.0—This Is Not A Theatre Company
New York, N.Y. Given the freezing weather that has continued to plague New York City into March, spending a Saturday evening sitting poolside, feet dangling in the water, seems a strange way to pass the time. But This Is Not A Theatre Company (a group I’ve previously seen throw an immersive theatre house party and […]
Take Root at Green Space: Kaley Pruitt Dance and URBAN/TRIBE
Queens, N.Y. In January, Green Space’s monthly curated performance series, Take Root, hosted Kaley Pruitt Dance and U R B A N / T R I B E. The former presented a clever dance theatre duet that used comic book tropes to meditate upon friendship; the latter showed a physically and emotionally demanding contemporary dance […]
Architecture Made Tactile: Gabrielle Lamb’s Pigeonwing Dance at Baruch PAC
New York, N.Y. On November 20, Baruch Performing Arts Center presented a pair of works by Gabrielle Lamb, a 2014 Princess Grace Award recipient, at Baruch’s Mason Hall. The first, Tessellations, premiered at New York Live Arts earlier this year and was danced by The Joffrey Ensemble. Pigeonwing Dance, Lamb’s company, performed the world premiere […]
Origins and Adopted Cultures: Da-On Dance presents ROOT
New York, N.Y. With ROOT, which was at the Salvatore Capezio Theater at Peridance Center October 15 and 16, Da-On Dance artistic director and choreographer Jin Ju Song-Begin made her dancers’ biographies not only impossible to ignore, but also key to the entire work. All five performers, including the choreographer herself, are internationals, hailing from South […]
3-2-1: Rovaco Dance Company at The Paradise Factory
New York, N.Y. Last week at Paradise Factory, the fledgling Rovaco Dance Company delighted audiences at the Tamasha NYC festival with three works by artistic director Rohan Bhargava.The program was titled 3-2-1, a callout to the trio, duet, and solo of which it was comprised. The three moderate-length works (one of which was an excerpt from a […]
Foretoken, Three Poisons: Kizuna Dance at Triskelion Arts
Brooklyn, N.Y. For their first full evening repertory concert at Triskelion Arts September 17-18, Cameron McKinney|Kizuna Dance pulled out all of the stops. There was an old favorite, a world premiere, and excerpts from their next new piece, still a work-in-progress. As usual, the dancers met the challenges of McKinney’s signature high intensity movement head […]
