Carmen de Lavallade's solo, Baryshnikov Arts Center

By Rachel Rizzuto, 23 February 2015

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“A gentle, natural performer who doesn’t make the mistake of over-sentimentalizing her material ”

Reviewed at Baryshnikov Arts Center, Jerome Robbins Theater, New York City on 19 February 2015

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How to Fall Apart: AMOC tackles climate change through dance

Erin Bomboy, 10th February

Combining musicians and dancers on stage, American Modern Opera Company’s How to Fall Apart filters the bombast of dramatic opera through the esoterica of downtown dance.

***11

A sandbox on pillars at the Baryshnikov Arts Center

Kurt Gottschalk, 7th April

Andy Akiho’s Seven Pilllars is a decidedly complex composition, a long palindrome that, as placed by Sandbox Percussion, finds beauty almost in spite of itself.

****1

Quodlibet Ensemble bridges Bach and Black Lives Matter

Kurt Gottschalk, 1st October

The strings stabbed, the camera panned in quick spurts with jump cuts, but the performers were still. It was an anxious and enormously effective approach to Rzewski’s prison meditation.

*****

The Trocks at Sadler’s Wells: uproariously entertaining

Graham Watts, 5th May

A very welcome and hilarious return to the UK from Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, this time at Sadler’s Wells, they offer familiar and new works.

****1

Parsons Dance brings the fun to modern at the Joyce Theater

Ivy Lin, 1st May

Six works, including two world premieres, made up the latest program from Parsons Dance. Thoroughly joyful, the audience were sent home buzzing.

*****

The Dutch National Ballet’s Hans van Manen in Carré

Mark Vicente, 30th April

Dutch National Ballet give an exemplary account of a quadruple bill comprised of the late Hans van Manen’s works. It’s a wonderful tribute to the great master choreographer.

*****

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Rachel Rizzuto

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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