American
Ballet Theatre's Spring Season
Ananiashvili:
Dancing Like a Dream in La
Bayadère
La
Bayadère
American Ballet Theatre
Metropolitan Opera House
New York, NY
May 14, 2004
by
Gay Morris
Michele
Wiles: Getting to the Heart of Hagar
Petite
Mort/Sechs Tanze/Pillar of Fire/Within You Without You
American Ballet Theatre
Metropolitan Opera House
New York, NY
May 12, 2004
by
Susan Reiter
Roberta
Marquez: a Tiny, Proud Nikiya
La
Bayadère
American Ballet Theatre
Metropolitan Opera House
New York, New York
May 14, 2004
by
Mary Cargill
ABT's
Season Opens With a Sizzling Gala
[reposted
from last week's edition for those who missed it]
Opening
Night Gala
American Ballet Theatre
Metropolitan Opera House
New York, NY
May 10, 2004
by
Susan Reiter
New
York City Ballet's Spring Season
Guest
Performance: Ballo della Regina
Ballo
della Regina, Episodes, Union Jack
New York City Ballet
New York State Theater
12 May 2004
by
Mindy Aloff
Brick
to Brown
Dances
at a Gathering/Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet
Dances at a Gathering/Union Jack
New York City Ballet
May 11, 2004 and May 15, Matinee, 2004
by
Mary Cargill
Beauties,
Crime and High Drama on the Lower East Side
Noir,
A site-specific choreography
Noémie Lafrance
The Delancey and Essex Municipal Parking Garage
New York, NY
May 5-29, 2004
By
Meital Waibsnaider
Dance
Criticism: Cross-Cultural Views
Eastern
European Criticism Initiative
Budapest, Hungary
April 2004
by
Kate Mattingly
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What's
On This Week?
Balanchine
Centennial Events:
May
17
Balanchine’s Music
Panel: Robert Craft, Andrea Quinn, Solomon Volkov
Moderator: Richard Moredock
George Balanchine said, "The music is the floor in which we dance."
The
music always was the springboard to the ballet, so naturally the final
New York City Ballet seminar of the year focuses on Balanchine's
inspirational and artistic relationship with Stravinsky and
Tchaikovsky. At 6pm-8pm.
New York State Theater Lincoln Center 66th Street and Broadway 212-870-5570
www.nycballet.com
May
17-June 27 (opened January 6)
The Balanchine Centennial Exhibition at New York City Ballet George Balanchine's
career is covered in a photography exhibit curated by company veteran
Edward Bigelow.
New York State Theater Lincoln Center 66th Street and Broadway 212-870-5570
www.nycballet.com
Ballet
and Dance Events:
May
17
Crossing Boundaries
Dance Anonymous, Mariangela Lopez, Tami Stronach and Moeno Wakamatsu take
part in this month's showcase.
Dixon Place at Dance Theater Workshop
219 West 19th Street betwen Seventh and Eighth Avenues
212-219-0736
May
17
Choreographic Honors 2003-2004
A selection of the works created by Juilliard Dance Division students
during
the school year. At 8pm.
Juilliard Theater
60 Lincoln Center Plaza
Broadway at 65th Street
212-769-7406
May
17
Tribute to Yuriko: Boundless Talent
Japan Society holds a special tribute to the life and work of Yuriko,
ground-breaking
modern dancer, innovative choreographer and the first Japanese-American
star of the Broadway stage. This multi-media homage includes
an introduction by Emiko Tokunaga, Artistic Director of Boston
Conservatory Summer Dance, archival video footage, a live performance
of Yuriko’s choreography by Miki Orihara, principal dancer with
Martha Graham Dance Company, and an open discussion with Yuriko and
Paul Taylor, moderated by The New York Times dance critic Anna Kisselgoff.
At 7:30pm.
Japan Society
333 East 47th Street between First and Second Avenues
212-752-3015
May
17-22
American Ballet Theatre
ABT's spring season continues with five more performances of La Bayadere
and the United States premiere of its new production of Raymonda,
with choreography by Anna-Marie Holmes after Marius Petipa and
glorious music by Alexander Glazounov. Bolshoi ballerina Svetlana Zakharova
guests as Nikya in La Bayadere on 5/17 and 5/19 evening. 5/17-22
at 8pm, 5/19 and 5/22 at 2pm.
Metropolitan Opera House
Lincoln Center
Columbus Avenue at 64th Street
212-362-6000
May
17-22
Lar Lubovitch Dance Company
Lubovitch offers the world premiere of Pentimento, a new dance created
specifically
for the unusual interior of the church. At 8pm.
Washington Square United Methodist Church
135 West Fourth Street
212-868-4444
May
18-22
Battleworks Dance Company
Robert Battle presents the New York City premiere of his company. The
p erformance
will feature the world premiere of Spoken and the New York City
premiere of Alleluia, as well as include Mood Indigo, Takademe, The
Hunt, and Two. At 7pm.
Dance Theater Workshop
219 West 19th Street between Seventh and Eighth avenues 212-924-0077
May
18-23
New York City Ballet
The spring portion of the Balanchine 100 Celebration continues with performances
of La Sonnambula, La Source, Robert Schumann's "Davidsbundlertanze,"
Square Dance, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, and Chaconne (along with several
others). In addition, Boston Ballet principal dancer Lorna Feijóo
and San Francisco Ballet principal dancer Gonzalo Garcia conclude their
visit with the final performance of Ballo della Regina. 5/18 at 7:30,
5/19-21 at 8pm, 5/22 at 2pm and 8pm,
5/23 at 3pm.
New York State Theater
Lincoln Center
66th Street and Broadway
212-870-5570
www.nycballet.com
May 18-23
Philadanco
This Philadelphia-based company stages the New York premiere of Steal
Away,
choreographed by Alsonzo King, Artistic Director of LINES Ballet of
San Francisco. Two ballets for men, Eleo Pomare's Back to Bach and Christopher
Huggins's Blue, will also have their New York premieres. Guest
artists are also scheduled to appear. 5/18-21 at 8pm, 5/22 at 2pm
and 8pm, and 5/23 at 2pm and 7:30pm.
The Joyce Theater
175 Eighth Ave. at 19th Street
212-242-0880
May
18-September 3
Margot Fonteyn in America: A Celebration
In an exhibition developed by Joy Brown and Robert Gottlieb, Fonteyn's
career in the United States is explored. The great ballerna made her American
debut on October 9, 1949, when Sol Hurok presented the Sadler's Wells
Ballet (later the Royal Ballet) at the Metropolitan Opera House, featuring
Fonteyn in the role of Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty. Featured
in the exhibit are costumes, haute couture, photographs, and films, including
the pointe shoes Fonteyn wore on that opening night. Some of Fonteyn's
greatest roles, in ballets including Swan Lake, The Firebird, Ondine,
and Marguerite and Armand, are represented by costumes from the
Royal Ballet Archives, and her elegance is expressed through her dresses
on loan from Fondation Pierre Bergé Yves Saint Laurent. This tribute
coincides with the international celebration of the Frederick Ashton Centennial,
which will be a focus of the 2004 Lincoln Center Festival. On 5/20, Victor
Jessen's shot-in-secrecy film of Fonteyn in The Sleeping Beauty
is screened at 5:30pm at the Bruno Walter Auditorium.
The New York Library for the Performing Arts
Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
40 Lincoln Center Plaza
Amsterdam Avenue at 63rd Street
212-870-1630
May
19
Performance on 42nd Presents Strange Pilgrims
Choreographer RoseAnne Spradlin leads her troupe of dancers to workshop
a new piece, Future Past, and to revisit her Rearrangement (or,
a Spell for Mortals) (2003). At 8pm.
Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria
120 Park Avenue at 42nd Street
917-663-2453
May
19-22
Noemie Lafrance
Lafrance's new site-specific choreography is a cinema-inspired, Noir,
i
s set in a parking garage. Noir invites the participating audience to
view the "on-site" spectacle through the windshield of their
parked c
ars. Performed by five couples, Noir is an adventurous performance that
examines themes of suspense and love in narrative through the language
of dance. The production is part of the 2004 Whitney Biennial and
Danspace Project's Out of Space series.
Delancey and Essex Municipal Parking GArage
105 Essex Street between Delancey and Rivington Streets 212-868-4444
May
19-23
Nina Winthrop and Dancers
Wintrope presents CUMULUS, a multidisciplinary work about time, aging
a nd
the accumulation of memories, as well as other works.
The Flea Theatre
41 White Street at Broadway
212-696-7483
May
20-23
VanDance
VanDance, in collaboration with Bruce Ornstein’s Acting Workshop,
p resents
the world premiere of “?”. Using a cast of fourteen performers
- seven dancers and seven actors - and an original score by Israeli
composer Alon Nechushtan, “?” questions our perception of
r eality
by challenging the boundaries of performance. 5/20-22 at 8pm, 5/23
at 7pm.
Williamsburg Arts Nexus
205 North 7th Street between Driggs Avenue and Roebling Street
Brooklyn
718-599-7997
May
20-22
Joyce SoHo Presents
The third week of this showcase features Camille Brown, Randee Paufve,
Daniela
Hoff and Kaori Ito.
Joyce SoHo
155 Mercer Street
212-334-74-79
May 20
Troika Ranchi
Dawn Stoppiello and Mark Coniglio present Surfacing. At 8:30pm.
St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery
Second Avenue at 10th Street
212-674-8194
May
21
Dances by Isadora
This company is dedicated to the preservation of the repertoire and technique
of Isadora Duncan through the medium of performance and educational
workshops.
At 4:30pm.
Central Park's Bethesda Fountain, mid-park at 72nd Street
917-673-3132
May
21-23
Andrew Jannetti & Dancers
5/21 at 9pm, 5/22 and 23 at 8pm.
Cunningham Studio
55 Bethune Street 11th Floor
212-431-7313
May
22
Valentina Kozlova's Dance Conservatory Performance Project
The former Bolshoi and New York City Ballet principal dancer presents
h er company of pre-professional dancers, joined by guests Andrei Kisselev,
from Broadway's "Riverdance," and Irina Dvorovenko and Maxim
B eloserkovsky,
principal dancers with American Ballet Theatre, in a program
of classical and contemporary ballets. Dvorovenko and and Beloserkovsky
will perform the contemporary pas de deux Farewell, choreographed
by Maria Chimengilly to music by Mozart.
Florence Gould Hall
55 East 59 Street
212-355-6160
May
22
The Conjunto Folklorico
The Center for Traditional Music and Dance presents this family program
of merengue dance rhythms and steps and highlights from the Dominican
carnival traditions, including the diablos cahuellos masquerade
and the roba de galina rag dancers of the gagá processional dance.
At 1pm.
Symphony Space
2537 Broadway at 96th Street
212-864-5400
May
29-30 and June 5-6, 19-20
Out of Space/SITE: Douglas Dunn
Dunn presents his outdoor dance The Higgs Field. At Noon-1pm.
The Pinetum
West side of Central Park at 85th Street
212-674-8194
—Dale
Brauner
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Writers |
Mindy
Aloff
Dale Brauner
Mary Cargill
Nancy Dalva
Gia Kourlas
Gay Morris
Susan Reiter
Alexandra Tomalonis(Editor)
Meital Waibsnaider
Leigh Witchel
David Vaughan
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