Archive for December, 2007
Seen It Once? That’s Just the Start
By Claudia La Rocco
The New York Times
NEXT month Dance Theater Workshop is remounting Miguel Gutierrez’s enthralling “Everyone,” seen at the Henry Street Settlement in March. Go, then go back: “Everyone” should be absorbed multiple times. But the chance to see it even twice is a luxury. Though recent initiatives at Dance Theater Workshop and [...]
“Looking for the perfect beat…” and finding it
By Eva Yaa Asantewaa
InfiniteBody
Full Circle–those endearing hip-hop dancers, Kwikstep and Rokafella–are showing a new version of their popular Innaviews, directed by Gamal Chasten, at Dance Theater Workshop now through Saturday evening, and the update works. It’s a two-person show now with lots more of the full-out dancing for which this married couple is rightly acclaimed. [...]
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Kwikstep and Rokafella of Full Circle redefine dance through hip-hop
NY Press
By Susan Reiter
December 19, 2007
Interviewing Kwikstep and Rokafella about their latest project gives me a moment’s pause since their new dance-theater piece, Innaviews, is structured around dead-on parodies of nightmare interview experiences they’ve had. Instead of groaning at the latest lame [...]
Breaking, but Not Up
The Best of New York Today
New York Times Urban Eye
Wednesday, December 19
Between them, the husband-and-wife breakers Rokafella and Kwikstep have more than a quarter-century of experience dancing in the street. Tonight at Dance Theater Workshop, the duo performs “Innaviews,” a duet that reflects on their b-boy/b-girl culture and history — and also [...]
Teen Reviewers on David Neumann
Here are three different views on David Neumann / advanced beginner group’s feedforward from High 5 Tickets to the Arts dance TRaC students taught by Brian McCormick:
A Bag of Mixed Feedforward
By Diana Poon
Kyle Abraham on The Balkan Dance Platform
On October 9, 2007, I boarded a plane headed for Athens, Greece. After finishing a whirlwind of 30 performances in a matter of two and a half weeks, I was thrilled to know that for the next 7 days, I would be living it up in one of the most beautiful and historic cities in [...]
Back from New Orleans
So I just got back, along with many artists and colleagues around the country, from the National Performance Network annual meeting last week in New Orleans. I had never been to one of the big annual meetings before, and I hadn’t been back to New Orleans since Katrina and the levee breach, [...]
This Woman’s Work:
Reflections on a conversation with Ellis Wood, Artistic Director of Ellis Wood Dance
By Tara O’Con
To inhabit the world that Ellis Wood creates through dance is to experience the complexities of life–its struggles, confrontations and celebrations, governed only by the senses. The porous line between pleasure and pain, sexy and [...]
Happy Holiday Montage
The Dance Theater Workshop Staff would like to wish you all a Happy Holiday Season. Please enjoy our montage and mini banner sighting.
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Youth, Slow And Fast
Gay City News
by Brian McCormick
12/06/2007
Despite stark content differences, structuralists and semiologists could equally love the works of Beth Gill and Daniel Linehan presented at Dance Theater Workshop November 28 - December 1.
