South Asian choreographer Lata Pada celebrated her company’s 25th anniversary with a beautiful production called Nirantara – Beyond Space and Time. The word nirantara means endless, and what Pada hoped to bring together through dance, music, lighting and projections was the concept of the bindu (the sacred point) where time and space come together to […]
KYLE ABRAHAM/ABRAHAM.IN.MOTION. THE RADIO SHOW. You only have until Saturday to catch this World Stage offering. Abraham is one of New York’s brightest lights. The supple dancers execute fluid, total body choreography in this show about memory and communication. As a dancesmith, Abraham knows how to rivet the eye with movement that always catches you by […]
What a difference 20 years makes. Heartbeat of Home, the new show from the team that brought you Riverdance two decades ago is an immensely enjoyable, professional-looking, polished dance show where everything hangs together as smooth as silk. The music score is sensational and the band it hot. It certainly deserves a long shelf life. […]
Veteran dance artist Claudia Moore is celebrating her 60th birthday with four world premieres by heavyweight choreographers. It is a fitting tribute to a great dancer who has enriched the dance scene of this city for many years. Three of the four dancesmiths (Susanna Hood, Christopher House and Paul-André Fortier) have taken a similar tack […]
This show could be headlined “Local Girl Makes Good”. Dancer, choreographer and actress Yana Maizel was born in St. Petersburg, raised in Toronto, and lives in Paris. She also happens to be a flamenco dancer who trained in Spain. Her solo show, not surprisingly, is anchored in her peripatetic background. Maizel’s homecoming also garnered a […]
