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Michelle Coe / Move the Frame
Robbinschilds
C.L.U.E. - Performance Details
Performance Space (PS) 122
December 5 - 8, 2007
"Review of robbinschilds' "C.L.U.E." at PS 122"
"This piece had me totally transfixed. admittedly, I'm a sucker for live music, and this was particularly captivating "shoe-gazer" dark, experimental music by Seattle rock band Kinski (where the bass guitarist at one point played her guitar with a bow, like an upright bass!), so it had me from the first note." Read review...
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Gia Kourlas / New York Times
Moving Theater
Impermanent Collection - Performance Details
Whitney Museum
December 7 and December 14, 2007
"Making Art Onstage Near Art on the Walls"
"The battle between live art and its more profitable, stationary counterpart is the subject of a new work by Moving Theater. In "Impermanent Collection," performed at the Whitney Museum of American Art on Friday, the group's co-artistic directors, Brennan Gerard and Ryan Kelly, question the influence of a permanent collection on live art." Read review...
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Claudia La Rocco / New York Times
Robbinschilds
C.L.U.E. - Performance Details
Performance Space (PS) 122
December 5 - 8, 2007
"On the Road Again, but to Where?"
"Wearing an ever-changing, brightly hued selection of outfits that toe the line between hipster chic and matronly, the two women cavort on empty highways and do a strange, lunging walk-dance in a parking lot at night. Dressed in vibrant red, they pick their way through a lonely world of scrub and rock; the viewer sees them only intermittently, the way birds reward those watchers who are patient enough to wait." Read review...
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Eva Yaa Asantewaa / InfiniteBody
Robbinschilds
C.L.U.E. - Performance Details
Performance Space (PS) 122
December 5 - 8, 2007
"Got a C.L.U.E. for you"
"Inspired by travels along the backroads of Southern California, C.L.U.E. (color location ultimate experience) introduces us to two wild, mysterious women who, through their movements, live and on video, come to channel the formidably strong and violent forces of the natural (rocks, lake, sea) and artificial (highway) environment around them." Read review...
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Maria / A Time to Dance
Ballet Hispanico
Palladium Nights and Repertory
Joyce Theater
November 27 - December 9, 2007
PLEASE NOTE:: This review is of Ballet Hispanico performing at Kennedy Center in Washington, DC on November 5, 2007.
"Palladium Nights: Ballet Hispanico and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra with Arturo O'Farrill at the Kennedy Center"
"Palladium Nights is what I would describe as a full-length salsa ballet. The stage was set up like an old-time nightclub...where the 10 clubgoers danced out the little dramas that occur in the course of a night out in the club....While Palladium Nights was not earth shattering for me in every way, it brought me a long way in rethinking new modes of salsa performance. Choreographer Willie Rosario did a nice job at times of incorporating the beauty, grace, and technique of contemporary ballet and modern dance in a harmonious and cohesive way. And there was also some pretty great dancing, choreography, and live music thrown in to boot." Read review...
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Alastair Macaulay / New York Times
Ballet Hispanico
Palladium Nights and Repertory
Joyce Theater
November 27 - December 9, 2007
"Looking Back on a Ballroom's Past, With Kicks and Lifts and Leaps"
"[Choreographer Tina Ramirez] has conceived "Palladium Nights" as a semi-narrative about cartoonlike characters who might just have turned up at the Palladium on the same night: the vamp, the sailor, the glamorous lonely-heart, the overexcited male oddball, the Casanova, the eager schoolgirl, the bespectacled prude, the professional ballroom duo.... Not to mention the flirtations that arise." Read review...
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Joel Lobenthal / The New York Sun
New York City Ballet
Opening Night Gala
New York State Theater, Lincoln Center
November 20, 2007
"A Tribute to Two"
"New York City Ballet's season opening gala Tuesday night was billed as a tribute to NYCB co-founder Lincoln Kirstein, who would have celebrated his 100th birthday this year. But the opening and closing sections seemed as much a tribute to George Balanchine himself." Read review...
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Jennifer Dunning / New York Times
New York City Ballet
Opening Night Gala
New York State Theater, Lincoln Center
November 20, 2007
"Verve, Affection and Glitter in a Gala Tribute to Kirstein"
"All that was missing from "Dancing for Lincoln: A Centennial Celebration," the New York City Ballet's spirited, affectionate opening-night gala on Tuesday at the State Theater, was the once-familiar sight of Lincoln Kirstein staring down from his seat in the first ring, keen-eyed, at all that he had wrought as a founder of the company with George Balanchine." Read review...
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Tonya Plank / Swan Lake Samba Girl
New York City Ballet
Opening Night Gala
New York State Theater, Lincoln Center
November 20, 2007
"Happy Happy Night: Feisty New Dance By Peter Martins and Promising New Ballet Movie!"
"Highlights of New York City Ballet's Opening Night Gala were two world premieres -- one of a feisty new ballet by NYCB artistic director, Peter Martins, the other a brief but fabulous excerpt from a new movie-in-the-making of Jerome Robbins's jazzy cool ballet, N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz." Read review...
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Philip Oberon / Oberon's Grove
New York City Ballet
Opening Night Gala
New York State Theater, Lincoln Center
November 20, 2007
"City Ballet Opening Night"
"After the long wait, New York City Ballet is back at the State Theatre. What a perfect way to start a gala - and a season - with the Garland Waltz from SLEEPING BEAUTY. Balanchine's genius for structure is in full bloom here, and his introduction of children into the patterns is masterfully timed." Read review...
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Apollinaire Scherr / Foot In Mouth
New York City Ballet
Opening Night Gala
New York State Theater, Lincoln Center
November 20, 2007
"Go: Peter Martins' "Grazioso" at New York City Ballet's Fall Gala"
"It's one of the duties of the Ballet Master in Chief of big ballet companies to create pieces d'occasion for the galas...[Peter] Martins usually does his duty, but not one iota more...Imagine my surprise, then, at the charming, breezy, and engrossing piece Martins created this year." Read review...
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Anna Brady Nuse / Move the Frame
Filmmaker: Isaac Julien
Choreographer: Russell Maliphant
Filmwork for multidisciplinary performance: Cast No Shadow
Event: Performa07
Venue: BAM Harvey Theater
Date: November 6, 2007
"Last night I saw Isaac Julien's Cast No Shadow, created in collaboration with choreographer Russell Maliphant, at BAM as part of the Next Wave Festival and PERFORMA07. Like Claudia La Rocco's review in the New York Times from Nov 8th, I was ecstatically overwhelmed by Julien's films, and frustratingly underwhelmed by Maliphant's choreography." Read review...
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Eva Yaa Asantewaa / InfiniteBody
Filmmaker: Isaac Julien
Choreographer: Russell Maliphant
Filmwork for multidisciplinary performance: Cast No Shadow
Event: Performa07
Venue: BAM Harvey Theater
Date: November 6, 2007
"Isaac Julien's filmwork for the multidisciplinary performance, Cast No Shadow--a presentation of Performa07 and BAM's Next Wave Festival at the BAM Harvey Theater through tonight--is a poetic, color-saturated head trip with translucent, larger-than-life, in-your-face imagery. Absolutely beautiful. But what about dance?" Read review...
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