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Tag Archives: Brooklyn Academy of Music
Mark Morris Versus the Music: A Choral Fantasy and Four Saints in Three Acts at BAM
Note: This review appeared in the April 2012 issue of The Brooklyn Rail. Setting dance to Beethoven has historically raised a few eyebrows in the dance world. George Balanchine, a great lover of music, went so far as to describe … Continue reading
Posted in BAM, Brooklyn Rail, Mark Morris, Modern Dance
Tagged A Choral Fantasy, and Orchestra, BAM, Beethoven, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Chorus, Elizabeth Kurtzman, Fantasy in C minor for Piano, Four Saints in Three Acts, George Balanchine, Gertrude Stein, Isaac Mizrahi, Mark Morris, Mark Morris Dance Group, Michelle Yard, Paul Taylor, Saint Ignatius, Saint Teresa of Ávila, Virgil Thomson
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A New Experience, But Not a Fresh One: Batsheva Dance Company Performs Ohad Naharin’s Hora at BAM
Several times during Hora, a dance piece by Ohad Naharin that was performed by Naharin’s Batsheva Dance Company at BAM last week, one sees 11 dancers sitting on a long bench, hands resting on their knees. In unison, they stand … Continue reading
A Series of Exits, One of Them Final: The Last Performances of Merce Cunningham Dance Company
A rock concert with enraptured fans crowding the side of stage. A three-ring circus featuring acts of superhuman daring. A series of Olympic competitions accompanied by brassy fanfare. The activity inside the Park Avenue Armory might have resembled any of … Continue reading
Posted in Merce Cunningham, Modern Dance, Park Avenue Armory, Postmodern Dance
Tagged Anna Finke, Brandon Collwes, Brooklyn Academy of Music, contemporary dance, Cross Currents, CRWDSPCR, Daniel Arsham, Daniel Madoff, Enter, eyeSpace, Fractions I, Jamie Scott, Jennifer Goggans, Marcie Munnerlyn, Merce Cunningham, modern dance, Nearly Ninety, Park Avenue Armory, Park Avenue Armory Event, postmodern dance, Rashuan Mitchell, Rune, Silas Riener, Takehisa Kosugi
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Catching the End of an Era: Merce Cunningham Dance Company’s Final U.S. Repertory Performances at BAM
The air in New York has been thick with Cunningham nostalgia. Everywhere I go, I hear conversations turn to Merce Cunningham and his dance company. After more than 50 years as a pioneering force in contemporary dance, Merce Cunningham Dance … Continue reading
Posted in BAM, Contemporary Dance, Merce Cunningham, Modern Dance
Tagged Andrea Weber, Andy Warhol, Arlene Croce, BAM, BIPED, Brandon Collwes, Brian Eno, Brooklyn Academy of Music, chance operations, Cheap Imitation, contemporary dance, Daniel Madoff, Erik Satie, Finnegans Wake, Gavin Bryars, George Balanchine, Irish dancing, James Hall, James Joyce, Jennifer Goggans, John Cage, Joyce Theater, Krista Nelson, Lincoln Center, Mark Morris, Martha Graham, Melissa Toogood, Merce Cunningham, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Merce Fair, modern dance, motion-capture animation, Mylar balloons, Pond Way, Quartet, RainForest, Rashaun Mitchell, Roaratorio, Robert Swinston, Second Hand, Silas Riener, Socrate, Socrates, Split Sides, Suzanne Gallo, The New Yorker
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Farewell to Westbeth: The Final Performances of the Merce Cunningham Repertory Understudy Group
The end is near. In less than a month, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, a radical force in dance and the art world at large since 1953, will cease to exist. The excitement surrounding the Legacy Tour’s remaining engagements in … Continue reading
Posted in Merce Cunningham, Modern Dance, Postmodern Dance
Tagged Brooklyn Academy of Music, Cargo X, Cori Kresge, Cunningham Repertory Understudy Group, Cunningham RUGs, David Rafael Botana, Empire State Building, Inventions MinEvent, Legacy Tour, Lincoln Center, Merce Cunningham, Merce Cunningham Studio, Merce Fair, Park Avenue Armory, Rune, Scramble, Stacy Martorana, Summerspace, Timothy Emmett Lee Ward, Westbeth, Westbeth Artists Community, Winterbranch
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