Archive for January, 2008
Shick’s Schtick Lost without a Translation
Letter from New York, 1-24: Disengage the Disconnect
By April Biggs
Copyright 2008 April Biggs
The Dance Insider
NEW YORK — Saturday, January 12: Vicky Shick’s “Plum House (a Cartoon)” stirs even in its pre-show darkness at Dance Theater Workshop. The hub of the piece is a barebones wooden frame house poised upstage right. Like a doorless [...]
The Art of Small Things
Listen to Claudia La Rocco on Arts and Politics and Miguel Gutierrez on WNYC.
My New York Experience (part II)
By Tamara Bracic
CEC ArtsLink Fellow 2007
Part II of III
What I was really impressed by in the Dance Theater Workshop was also a well developed Fundraising and Audience development departments. My professional background comes of course from a totally different system of arts financing to begin with. In Slovenia there is a relatively big [...]
Shout out to LIC
One of Dance Theater Workshop’s own - Brian Rogers - is featured in Gothamist.com talking about his theater space, The Chocolate Factory. Check it out…
Stephen Greco’s Reinvention
By: BRIAN MCCORMICK
Gay City News
01/10/2008
Stephen Greco has some big dancing shoes to fill. He works in the office where Marion Dienstag sat for a time, after she led Dance Theater Workshop into the new millennium with a brand new building and a fully loaded theater. Before her, David R. White, the kingmaker, reigned over these [...]
My New York Experience (part I)
By Tamara Bracic
CEC ArtsLink Fellow 2007
Part I of III
I come from Slovenia, a country with 2 million inhabitants in Central / East Europe, one of the republics of ex-Yugoslavia that joined the European Union a couple of years ago and started its way towards a prosperous future. In Slovenia, I work as a producer [...]
Paper Bags Get Pretty Chatty Nowadays
By JENNIFER DUNNING
The New York Times
Published: January 7, 2008
Dance may be in for a dire time, judging by the “Fresh Tracks” program on Saturday night at Dance Theater Workshop. Precious vacuity ruled in this latest installment of an august showcase devoted to choreography by emerging artists, suggesting that these Gen Y artists may not have [...]
“Starving for Artists”
The cover story of this mornings’ AM New York “Starving for Artists - Pricey city forcing out creative talent” featured a photograph of Robert Elmes in Galapagos Art Space in Williamsburg. Those in our little community are well aware of the troubles and tribulations Galapagos has faced with their rising rent, and yet they are [...]
The Year In Dance
by Jennifer Homans
The New Republic
Books: I particularly admired Martin Duberman’s The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein. Kirstein was a difficult man and his tormented psychological and sexual life has often obscured his public image; Duberman rights the balance and gives full due to Kirstein’s voracious intellect and profound commitment to civic culture. He was the last [...]
Memories of a Venerable Showcase
By Claudia La Rocco
The New York Times
From dance enclaves in the Bronx to roving, artist-run collectives, showcases for “emerging choreographers” — that fuzzy, mutable category — are a dime a dozen these days. But this week one of the pioneers, the Fresh Tracks series at Dance Theater Workshop in Chelsea, reaches an important milestone: 500 [...]
