Articles by Rachel Rizzuto | by Bachtrack for classical music, opera, ballet and dance event reviews

Rachel Rizzuto received her BFA in dance performance and choreography from the University of Southern Mississippi. She is currently an editor for Dance Teacher magazine, and she is a founding member of modern dance company Mari Meade Dance Collective.

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Faye Driscoll's Thank You For Coming: Play: A Work of Extremes

By Rachel Rizzuto, 22 November 2016

Faye Driscoll's Thank You For Coming: Play is the second in a series of three works that ask the audience to imagine a different kind of participation than they are used to.

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Pam Tanowitz Explores the New and the Old at the Joyce

By Rachel Rizzuto, 30 September 2016

Pam Tanowitz's Sequenzas in Quadrilles makes use of series curator Lars Lubovitch's unusual vision for the Joyce Theater: Dance in the round.

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A Spectacle, a Smorgasbord, a Show: John Jaspere's Remains at BAM

By Rachel Rizzuto, 23 September 2016

John Jasperse once more proves himself the master of form, function and, in this case, danceable art history.

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Ballet BC strongest in the sure hands of Crystal Pite

By Rachel Rizzuto, 03 June 2016

Ballet BC's Thursday night performance at The Joyce in NYC included a kitschy première from artistic director Emily Molnar, a quirky ensemble number from Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar and a truly beautiful work by Crystal Pite.

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Dorrance Dance's High-Tech Tap Hijinks at The Joyce

By Rachel Rizzuto, 04 May 2016

Michelle Dorrance and Nicholas Van Young's ETM: Double Down at The Joyce is a tap-happy, technology-driven, everything-but-the-kitchen-sink performance bursting at the seams with energy.

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Ben Munisteri's Antimony (51) at BAM Fisher Quiet, Unassuming, Lovely

By Rachel Rizzuto, 25 April 2016

In a première and a work from last year, choreographer Ben Munisteri demonstates his mastery of symmetry, unexpected juxtaposition and ensemble dynamics.

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Abraham.in.Motion: A raw, jagged take on injustice

By Rachel Rizzuto, 16 November 2015

Kyle Abraham's Abraham.in.Motion offers an evening of undeniable rawness at the Joyce Theater in NYC.

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Anne De Keersmaeker and Boris Charmatz's Deceptively Gentle Duet

By Rachel Rizzuto, 02 November 2015

Rachel Rizzuto reviews Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Boris Charmatz's duet, Partita 2, with violinist Amandine Beyer as part of Lincoln Center's White Light Festival.

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NYC's Fall for Dance: A Matchmaking Service Between Audience and Companies New to Them

By Rachel Rizzuto, 05 October 2015

New York City Center's Fall for Dance Festival opens with performances by Miami City Ballet, L.A. Dance Project, Doug Elkins Choreography, etc. and Che Malambo

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Batsheva Ensemble's Rawness Just Right for Naharin's "Decadance"

By Rachel Rizzuto, 01 October 2015

Rachel Rizzuto reviews the Batsheva ensemble in artistic director Ohad Naharin's Decadance at the Joyce Theater in NYC.

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The new Ballet Mécanique? Blanca Li's Robot at BAM

By Rachel Rizzuto, 23 June 2015

Blanca Li’s Robot at BAM is a fun but often muddled piece of dance theater, with a particularly unusual cast: half humans, half tiny (only a couple feet tall) robots.

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Cedar Lake's fitting, adrenaline-fueled closing performances

By Rachel Rizzuto, 08 June 2015

Rachel Rizzuto reviews Cedar Lake's final performances as a company at BAM in New York City.

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Hubbard Street Dance: between too little and too much

By Rachel Rizzuto, 21 May 2015

Rachel Rizzuto reviews Hubbard Street Dance Chicago's Program A at The Joyce Theater in NYC, which features works by Alejandro Cerrudo, Robyn Mineko Williams, Crystal Pite and Gustavo Ramirez Sansano.

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Mark Morris' Whelm, an intriguing but never irritating mystery

By Rachel Rizzuto, 24 April 2015

The Mark Morris Dance Group delights at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

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Kate Weare at BAM: A 10-Year Retrospective

By Rachel Rizzuto, 23 February 2015

For its tenth anniversary season at BAM, Kate Weare Dance Company presents a part retrospective part forward looking program, reflective of the many facets of the choreographer's work

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Carmen de Lavallade's Solo Show at BAC: The Pre-Beyoncé Beyoncé

By Rachel Rizzuto, 23 February 2015

Carmen de Lavallade's solo show, As I Remember It, is a touching moment with the performer. Currently performed at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, New York City.

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Where Drama and Movement Meet: NDT2 at the Joyce

By Rachel Rizzuto, 09 February 2015

Nederlands Dans Theater 2, the Dutch powerhouse's young ensemble brings a mixed programme to New York City

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A High School Dance for Grownups, With Every Adolescent Fear Intact

By Rachel Rizzuto, 03 November 2014

Rachel Rizzuto reviews Pina Bausch's Kontakthof (1974) at BAM in Brooklyn.

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Mark Dendy's Labyrinth muddled, but honest

By Rachel Rizzuto, 13 October 2014

Mark Dendy weaves Greek myth with autobiography in his dance-play, Labyrinth, at Abrons Art Center.

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Fall for Dance Program One

By Rachel Rizzuto, 12 October 2014

Fall for Dance's Program One features Black Grace, San Francisco Ballet, Russell Maliphant's choreography and the Mark Morrids Dance Group. A mixed bag, with Morris's Words the lovely cherry on the top!

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