Category: ‘Reviews’

• Alvin Ailey, “Revelations” (1960) performed April 28, 2012 [Review]

   Guide: Modern Dance in America DANCE IN PROFILE: Alvin Ailey, Revelations (1960) A complete performance of Revelations from 1986 is viewable on YouTube here (28 minutes into the video). With Revelations, dancer-choreographer Alvin Ailey (1931-1989) revolutionized the role of African-Americans in Modern dance and created an enormously successful fusion of widely accessible style and themes and artistic quality. Revelations draws on black [...]

  posted in Dance, Modern, Reviews tagged Alvin Ailey, Modern dance

• ODC/Dance Downtown, March 22, 2012 [Review]

   Guide: Modern Dance in America The second program on ODC’s Dance Downtown at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco featured three works choreographed by the three Artistic Directors of the ODC. The San Francisco-based ODC Dance Company was founded in 1971 by Brenda Way, and is now among the leading professional Modern dance companies [...]

  posted in Dance, Modern, Reviews tagged Modern dance, ODC Dance Company

• Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, February 17, 2012 [Review]

   Guide: Modern Dance in America I had the pleasure of seeing Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, the national ballet company of Monaco, perform a program of two long works, Altro Canto and Opus 40, at the Joyce Theater in New York City. Both works were created by the company’s director since the early 1990s, Jean-Christophe Maillot. Maillot’s vocabulary is far [...]

  posted in Dance, Modern, Reviews tagged ballet, Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, Modern dance

• Dance/Draw at the Institute for Contemporary Art [Review]

  Last Saturday I visited the Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) to catch their exhibit Dance/Draw: an exploration of the influence of dance on artists, art created by dancers, or artists’ capturing of dance. Helen Molesworth, Chief Curator, writes in the exhibit introduction that the following works show “how artists and dancers have produced lines either as [...]

  posted in Art, Dance, Modern, Reviews tagged ICA, Modern dance, Postmodernism, Trisha Brown