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Deborah Jowitt / The Village Voice
James Thierree
Au Revoir Parapluie - Performance Details
Brooklyn Academy of Music
December 4-16, 2007 (Check dates)
"James Thiérrée's Au Revoir Parapluie: Seeking a missing lover through dream countries"
"As demonstrated in his magical Au Revoir Parapluie, James Thiérrée's imagination is tethered to reality only by the frailest of golden threads. This brilliant director, dancer, mime, acrobat, and musician has barely touched down on the Orpheus legend." Read review...
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Tobi Tobias / Bloomberg
James Thierree
Au Revoir Parapluie - Performance Details
Brooklyn Academy of Music
December 4-16, 2007 (Check dates)
"Thierree's Magic Tricks Charm at BAM"
"James Thierree's ``Au Revoir Parapluie'' (Goodbye, Umbrella), at the BAM Harvey Theater through Dec. 16, is a loosely joined performance of skits involving acrobatics, mime, magic tricks, aerial feats, a bit of singing and sundry aspects of dancing. Thierree was supposedly inspired by the Orpheus and Eurydice myth -- loss, search, death-defying retrieval -- but you'd never know that." Read review...
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Wendy Perron / Dance Magazine
Pappa Tarahumara
Ship In A View - Performance Details
BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music)
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
November 28 - December 1, 2007
"What happens when a good show doesn't know when to end?"
"Ship in a View, choreographed by Hiroshi Koike, ended with a powerful, glimmering image. A myriad of tiny revolving lights descended from the rafters, and one dancer, lying on a flat board, levitated up through this forest of lights. It was a beautiful, breathtaking ascension to heaven or a spiritual equivalent." Read review...
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Gus Solomons Jr. / Gay City News
Pappa Tarahumara
Ship In A View - Performance Details
BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music)
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
November 28 - December 1, 2007
"Mysterious Voyage"
"People ambulating, zombie-like around the stage, bursting into spasms of American pre-postmodern dance - side falls, stag leaps, and barrel turns - flashed this viewer's memory back to "happenings" of the Judson-era 1960s. But this was "Ship in a View," a sprawling, 95-minute movement-based theater piece that marked the BAM debut of Japanese dance-theater company Pappa Tarahumara - part of the 25th Next Wave Festival, November 28 to December 1." Read review...
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Deborah Jowitt / The Village Voice
Pappa Tarahumara
Ship In A View - Performance Details
BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music)
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
November 28 - December 1, 2007
"Going Nowhere Beautifully: Do you always have to understand what you see?"
"Hiroshi Koike named his company Pappa Tarahumara after a Mexican Indian tribe. He has made dance-theater works based on Chekhov's The Three Sisters and a Gabriel García Márquez story, but his Ship in a View is anchored only in his own imagination and his seaside hometown in Japan." Read review...
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Lisa Rinehart / Danceviewtimes
Pappa Tarahumara
Ship In A View - Performance Details
BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music)
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
November 28 - December 1, 2007
"Lost at Sea"
"Hiroshi Koike, Artistic Director of Pappa Tarahumara and creator of "Ship in a View," appears to be a member of the "if it's inscrutable, it must be good" club. Koike's ninety-five minute reflection on Hitachi City, the provincial industrial town where he grew up in 1960's Japan, is often beautiful, but heavily laden with suggested psychodrama that verges on the irritating." Read review...
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Roslyn Sulcas / New York Times
Pappa Tarahumara
Ship In A View - Performance Details
BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music)
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
November 28 - December 1, 2007
"A Seascape Dotted by Chaotic Bursts"
"Some theatrical pieces inspire a vague and intermittent boredom as they are performed, yet feel worthwhile by the time you emerge, blinking, into the theater lobby. Such was "Ship in a View," a work performed by the Japanese dance-theater company Pappa Tarahumara..." Read review...
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Wendy Perron / Dance Magazine
Batsheva Dance Company
Three - Program Details
Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
November 13, 15-17
"Ohad Naharin at BAM Blew Me Away"
"Naharin's piece Three at BAM was so beautiful I could almost not bear it. Simple and complex, soft and powerful, giddy and solemn, it was the kind of piece you want to linger over." Read review...
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Matthew Murphy / The Winger
Three
Batsheva Dance Company
Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
November 13, 15-17, 2007
"Ohading It"
"At almost exactly the same time I started "Ranting Details", I became obsessed with a certain man in the dance world known as Ohad Naharin...Explaining his work is always a challenge for me because the excitement it provokes from my body while I'm sitting in my seat is unlike any other art I've seen. At moments it transcends dance into absolute euphoria and I'm constantly in awe of his unique movement and the way he fits it to his bizarre choices of music." Read review...
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Three
Batsheva Dance Company
Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
November 13, 15-17, 2007
"This is the mercurial, shape-shifting world of Ohad Naharin's Batsheva Dance Company. Dancers inhabit a vacillating physicality that takes them from human, to dancer, to animal, to machine, all in one phrase. It is a highly disorienting, potentially nauseating transfiguration of the body, and it is genius." Read review...
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Tobi Tobias / Bloomberg.com
Three
Batsheva Dance Company
Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
November 13, 15-17, 2007
"They're introspective and sensuous, hunkering down to sway torso and pelvis as if they were so many waves in the sea, or recumbent, stretching and folding their legs like languid odalisques." Read review...
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Apollinaire Scherr / Foot In Mouth
Three
Batsheva Dance Company
Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
November 13, 15-17, 2007
"Ohad Naharin's "Three," at the BAM Opera House through Saturday, is what people like to call a "pure movement piece." It's an annoying expression in any case, as movement can never be wiped clean of history and metaphor (and why would you want it to be?), but it's especially off when applied to Naharin's gestural idiom." 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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