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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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Molissa Fenley and Dancers
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Joyce Theater
December 11 - 16, 2007
"Movement With Mystery and Efficient Athleticism"
"Many dancers have walked slowly across many stages, their faces bathed in a slanting light, their eyes focused on a middle distance...The choreographer Molissa Fenley took such a walk on Tuesday night at the Joyce Theater, where her company is celebrating 30 years of existence with two programs this week." Read review...
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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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Angela Harriell's Nutcracker: Rated R
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Theater for the New City
November 29 - December 23, 2007
"An Old Nut Receives a New Crack"
"Directed and choreographed by Angela Harriell, this misguided production is billed as a "full-length modern ballet." But it hardly delivers on that promise, nor, more distressingly, on its R rating. (If you're going to advertise titillation, people, you had best deliver.)" Read review...
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Beth Gill / Daniel Linehan
Eleanor & Eleanor / Not About Everything
Dance Theater Workshop
November 28 - December 1, 2007
"Reveling in the Stillness, Puzzling Over the Self"
"In "Eleanor & Eleanor," which opened a split bill at Dance Theater Workshop on Wednesday, Ms. Gill framed the back of the stage with delicate white arches, forming a space within a space. Everything reverberated in this hushed room, variously occupied by three women and a man. When Eleanor Hullihan and Danielle Goldman turned on their sides, offering the audience their backs and hips, the deliberateness of the action had the familiar resonance of turning away from a lover." Read review...
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Complexions Contemporary Ballet
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The Joyce Theater
November 13-25, 2007
"Ballet and African Steps, Delivered at Warp Speed"
"In preparation for "The Peace Project," a new program presented by Complexions Contemporary Ballet during the second half of its Joyce Theater stint, the company's artistic directors, Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson, asked the participating artists, "What does peace mean to you?"" Read review...
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Yvonne Rainer
RoS Indexical - Performance Details
Performa 07
Hudson Theater
November 18-19, 2007
"Choreographic Challenge: Another Dive Into the Enduring Mystery of 'Rite of Spring'"
"[Yvonne Rainer] recently returned to choreography after several decades as a filmmaker, and heading into "RoS Indexical," it was possible to hope that a confrontation of such foreign sensibilities would yield rich results. But alas, neither semiotics nor historical street cred could save her." Read review...
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