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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
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New York City Center
November 28 - December 31, 2007
"Ailey Family Celebrates One of Its Own"
"On Tuesday night at City Center, the troupe honored [Associate Artistic Director Masazumi Chaya] on his 35th anniversary at Ailey, with film and reminiscences from the stage by colleagues including Judith Jamison, the 1970s Ailey star who directs the company." Read review...
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Yvonne Meier
Area 51 - Performance Details
Danspace Project
December 13 - 15, 2007
"3 Apes Capering and a Juggler A-Leaping"
""Area 51," a new dance by Yvonne Meier and Aki Sasamoto, was a wittily imaginative exploration of how much can be communicated almost entirely by movement. The 50-minute piece ran out of steam about two-thirds of the way through, but until then, it was delicious." Read review...
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Program Details
New York City Center
November 28 - December 31, 2007
"Fame's Demands, and the Flights of Fancy to Escape"
"Alvin Ailey had a love-hate relationship with fame. He began his career in dance as a take-charge young artist whose performing and fledgling choreography were fueled more by apparent self-confidence than by deep knowledge of the art form." Read review...
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NuDance Festival - Performance Details
The Riverside Theatre
December 6-8, 2007
"Choreographers Stretch Visions in and Out of the Box"
"Showcases can be deadly, but the selection of choreographers for the NuDance Festival on Saturday night at Theater of the Riverside Church was unusually good. The artists came from a wide range of backgrounds, including Broadway, mainstream modern dance and hip-hop. Nearly everyone had something distinctively personal to say, for the most part stylistically." Read review...
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
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New York City Center
November 28 - December 31, 2007
"The Rhymthic Ebbing and Flowing of the Subway Riders of New York"
"Is the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater setting a trend? Both of its premieres this season are light and relatively frivolous. Fredrick Earl Mosely took on legends of the American West in his new and atypical "Saddle Up!," And Camille A. Brown celebrates the captive community of New York subway riders in her delicious "Groove to Nobody's Business," first performed by the Ailey company on Friday night at City Center." Read review...
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
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New York City Center
November 28 - December 31, 2007
"Crisscrossing the Stage, Highly Charged Moves From Familiar Pieces"
"How easily the memory plays tricks. Or does it? The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater made a nearly abstract piece of Talley Beatty's classic "Road of the Phoebe Snow" on Wednesday night at City Center. And the company performed Ailey's "River" as if it were anything but the sometimes pallid-seeming exercise in choreographing for a ballet troupe." Read review...
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Ballet Hispanico
Palladium Nights and Repertory
Joyce Theater
November 27 - December 9, 2007
"Sleek Lines and Fat Cigars (if You Got 'Em)"
"Pedro Ruiz's "Club Havana" has become a signature work for Ballet Hispanico, and on Tuesday night at the Joyce Theater it was easy to see why. Hot and cool, the ballet takes Latin ballroom dances brought to the United States since the 1920s and artfully sews them together in choreography that could be performed only by classically trained dancers." Read review...
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Bill T. Jones
A Quarreling Pair - Performance Details
Alexander Kasser Theater, Montclair State University
November 30 - December 2, 2007
"After Six Decades, a Jane Bowles Puppet Play Takes Flight"
"Bill T. Jones's new "Quarreling Pair" may surprise those familiar with his work over the last 20 years. There are no overarching social themes or emotions. The tone is relaxed and instinctual." Read review...
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Gina Gibney Dance
The Distance Between Us (PDF)
The Ailey Citigroup Theater
November 28 - December 1, 2007
"In a House of Connection, Isolated Still"
"Gina Gibney's distinctive choreographic voice has made her one of the most intellectually stimulating of New York dance artists. There is nothing particularly brainy about her dances. She does not play mind games. Instead, quietly, she deals in abstractions, making them do the work of expression for her." Read review...
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New York City Ballet
George Balanchine's The Nutcracker - Performance Details
New York State Theater at Lincoln Center
November 23 - December 30
"The Child in Balanchine Still Jumps for Joy"
"Why has George Balanchine's production of "The Nutcracker" remained the gold-standard version of this holiday classic? The New York City Ballet began its annual run of the piece on Friday night at the New York State Theater and worked its usual magic, despite generally run-of-the-mill performing." Read review...
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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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Gesel Mason
No Boundaries: Dancing the Vision of Contemporary Black Choreographers
Joyce SoHo
November 16-17, 2007
"Examining the Many Hues That Create Black and White"
"What is "black dance"? The question, usually asked by white dance writers, tends to be greeted by groans from black choreographers, company directors and performers. But Gesel Mason, herself a black dancer and choreographer, plunged headlong into the subject on Friday night at Joyce SoHo..." Read review...
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