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Rambert excels in this fascinating live performance of the unexpected and absurd.

In the Swiss capital city,the Tanzcompagnie Konzert Theater Bern recently danced a two-part programme of riveting works by Sharon Eyal and Jo Strømgren.

Director and choreographer Jo Strømgren's production of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice brings together ballet and opera, but succeeds only with limited results.

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

Rachel Rizzuto reviews Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet's Program C at BAM Howard Gilman Opera House.

Expectations run high when two of the most brilliant Nordic choreographers première works on the same stage in ths double bill at the Swedish Royal Opera labeled The Emperor. Örjan Andersson and Jo Strömgren exceed expectation, combining sensuousness and aristocratic pride with political stringency. 

The New York-based Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet is named after a street in Missouri, home of the studio where one of the company’s founders studied ballet many years ago. Both locales – in Missouri and in New York City – are a far distance from any lake, but somehow the name is appropriate: evoking visions of the still and pristine natural world of a wilderness lake.

Scottish Dance Theatre returned to The Place last week with a programme that kept you guessing, laughing and sometimes feeling a little uncomfortable, but undoubtedly the best part of the evening was experiencing the expressive honesty of the performers. Beginning the night was Second Coming by Rubber Band Dance Company’s Victor Quijada, followed by Jo Strømgren’s chilling Winter, Again.