Focus Dance: Yvonne Rainer and Urban Bush Women

By Stephanie Sirabian, 12 January 2014

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Reviewed at Joyce Theater, New York City on 9 January 2014

Assisted Living (Yvonne Rainer)

Dark Swan (Urban Bush Women)

Yvonne Rainer

Urban Bush Women

New York Dance-makers Party as CUNY Dance Initiative Turns 5

Carla Escoda, 20th March

Over the last five years, 115 of New York City's dance artists have found a haven in the vast city university system known as CUNY. 11 of them shared the stage to celebrate the CUNY Dance Initiative's 5th anniversary.

****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.

*****

Johnny Loves Johann, unevenly at the Joyce Theater

Carla Escoda, 14th April

Acclaimed violinist and 2024 MacArthur Fellow Johnny Gandelsman invited four choreographers to join him on a marathon through Bach's six cello suites. His musicianship was the highlight of the evening.

***11

Exhibitions of style: Hubbard Street Dance returns to New York

Carla Escoda, 31st March

Aszure Barton, Matthew Rushing, Bob Fosse and James Gregg make for an eclectic and mostly intriguing night with Chicago's Hubbard Street Dance at New York's Joyce Theatre.

****1

Ailey II dancers shine in ambitious mixed bill at the Joyce Theater

Carla Escoda, 18th March

In their penultimate stop on a US tour, Ailey's second company produced exceptional performances in an Ailey classic and four handsome new works.

****1

In New York, immersed in Noé Soulier’s The Waves

Carla Escoda, 4th March

A hypnotic evening with two percussionists and six dancers in Noé Soulier’s The Waves, inspired by the Virginia Woolf novel.

****1

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Stephanie Sirabian

Stephanie started dancing when she was three years old and never stopped. She earned her B.A. from Tufts University majoring in History with a minor in dance and currently works in publishing as a copywriter. In her spare time she enjoys creative writing and exploring all the advantages of living in NYC.

Yvonne Rainer and Urban Bush Women at Focus Dance Festival