Archive for December, 2007
Where in the World is Dance Theater Workshop?
Over the next few weeks Dance Theater Workshop staff will be in three different continents watching dance, talking about dance, debating about the dance community, actually dancing, and who knows what else…
Space Flights
Two imaginative young choreographers test boundaries
The Village Voice
by Deborah Jowitt
December 5th, 2007 7:02 PM
You could say that dance is about time, space, and motion, but few works make us aware in any profound way of the first two elements; movement simply fills space and takes up time. In their shared program, Beth Gill and Daniel [...]
Juliana May on The Balkan Dance Platform
The Balkan Dance Platform
(Athens, Greece October 4-11 2007)
Let me first start by saying that my trip to Greece came right in the middle of my own process and much of my experience was framed by this fact. The romanticism/cliché of being abroad can thrust your creative process into a high speed flood [...]
NEA Awards Grants to City Organizations
The New York Sun
December 5, 2007
The Metropolitan Opera received a $100,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support a new production of Philip Glass’s “Satyagraha,” a co-production with the English National Opera that will begin in April 2008. The grant was one of 223 in New York State announced yesterday by the [...]
Reveling in the Stillness, Puzzling Over the Self
The New York Times
by CLAUDIA LA ROCCO
Published: November 30, 2007
There is something distinctly female about the quiet, controlled worlds that Beth Gill creates. They conjure the still interiors of an Anita Brookner novel, or the sensual gradations in an Agnes Martin painting. Disruptions are subsonic.
