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Doug Elkins
The Return of Fraulein Maria - Performance Details
Joe's Pub at The Public Theater
December 12 - 15, 2007
"A Dream that Needs All the Love You Can Give: Doug Elkins' "Fraulein Maria" works over a classic musical"
"I believe dance-makers create rites of passage to find the right ways to transform themselves through movement, with audience as witness and participant. In Fraulein Maria's "Climb Ev'ry Mountain," Doug Elkins, downtown-wunderkind-grown-older-and-wiser, was a shaman in his own rite, channeling his past to embark on the future." Read review...
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Claudia La Rocco / New York Times
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Doug Elkins
The Return of Fraulein Maria - Performance Details
Joe's Pub at The Public Theater
December 12 - 15, 2007
"No Yodeling: This Lonely Goatherd Likes Hip-Hop"
""When you know the notes to sing, you can sing most anything." Most everybody knows the timeless lesson meted out by Julie Andrews in "The Sound of Music." It's a phrase worth keeping in mind during many endeavors, including dance making, as proven by Doug Elkins on Wednesday night in "Fräulein Maria," his delightful, wink-filled ode to that classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical." Read review...
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Deborah Jowitt / The Village Voice
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Doug Elkins
The Return of Fraulein Maria - Performance Details
Joe's Pub at The Public Theater
December 12 - 15, 2007
"The Thrills Are Alive: Alert Julie Andrews! Doug Elkins brings Fraulein Maria back to Joe's Pub"
"New Yorkers are going to be very happy when Fraulein Maria, polished up and with additional recruits, returns to Joe's Pub on Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday (and again on January 12). A couple of years ago, when Elkins was coping with the breakup of his marriage and the dissolution of his dance company, he popped in a DVD and watched The Sound of Music with his son Liam." Read review...
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Roslyn Sulcas / New York Times
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Doug Elkins
The Return of Fraulein Maria - Performance Details
Joe's Pub at The Public Theater
December 12 - 15, 2007
"The Hills Are Alive (Ditto a Career)"
"The outcome was "Fräulein Maria," Mr. Elkins's characteristically free-associative take on "The Sound of Music," which opens at Joe's Pub on Wednesday night in its second run, after its premiere there last December. Its return in expanded form is a bright light for those who have long admired Mr. Elkins's fabulous capacity for movement invention; his fun-house way of collapsing together, then teasing out different movement traditions; and his clever, funny physical references to choreographers from Martha Graham to Trisha Brown." Read review...
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