Cunningham vs Sciarroni : deux esthétiques en miroir au Centquatre

By Julie Jozwiak, 23 December 2019

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“c’est une expérience réellement hallucinatoire qu’Alessandro Sciarroni va faire vivre au public”

Reviewed at Le Centquatre, Paris on 18 December 2019

TURNING_motion sickness version (Alessandro Sciarroni)

Winterbranch (Merce Cunningham)

Ballet de l'Opéra de Lyon

Ettore Lombardi, Costume Designer

Sébastien Lefèvre, Lighting Designer

Robert Rauschenberg, Costume Designer

Beverly Emmons, Lighting Designer

Liam Francis Dance Company in Alchemy: an absorbing London debut

Daniel Pratt, 7th November

Liam Francis Dance Company at The Place brings an instinctive and intelligent debut for a choreographer in-step with what it is to be a dance artist now.

*****

NYCB's winter season begins with Peck's brand new “sneaker ballet”

Ivy Lin, 27th January

The NYCB dancers are very at-home in this idiom, and they threw themselves wholeheartedly into this ballet. It was never less than watchable, but the music cried out for more avante-garde choreography than Peck provided.

****1

‘The Future Bursts in’ with Dance Umbrella

Sarah Kirkup, 24th October

Amala Dianor and CNN Ballet de Lorraine channel the US choreographer in two UK premieres and a Cunningham classic, all brilliantly performed.

****1

The Royal Ballet keeps the Cunningham flame aglow

Graham Watts, 11th October

A brief but innovative tribute to the lasting influence of Merce Cunningham in the Linbury Theatre

****1

NYCB does Cunningham ... and Balanchine

Ivy Lin, 5th October

Judging by the enthusiastic audience reactions to this program one might have to rethink the modern/ballet divide. Maybe there’s only two types of dance – good dance and bad dance.

****1

Merce Cunningham's centennial kicks off at The Joyce

Ivy Lin, 17th April

Despite the uneven performances, the evening offered a painful reminder: the future of Cunningham's opus is fragile and delicate. With his own company disbanded, his future is in the hands of dancers who are not trained in his technique and did not have the good fortune of working directly with the great choreographer.

***11

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Julie Jozwiak

Après des études en lettres et musicologie ainsi qu’un master d’école de commerce, Julie Jozwiak s’est consacrée à la production de concerts classiques. Elle est harpiste, choriste et violoniste, mais se définit surtout comme mélomane passionnée, et affectionne aussi beaucoup la danse classique qu’elle a longtemps pratiquée. Son amour inconditionnel du spectacle vivant l’incite à se rendre quasi quotidiennement au concert, à l’opéra, au ballet, au théâtre… ou à tout autre type de performance scénique.