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Are you sincere? Harrell’s “Quartet”
Eva Yaa Asantewaa reviews Trajal Harrell’s new work on Infinite Body.
There are good-enough dances that stay on their side of the audience-performer divide, slide in front of your eyes, take a quick bow, and go. Nod fondly at them or turn away, unaffected and cold; it might not matter, one way or the other.
Quartet for [...]
The Ritual of Baring All. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.
Dance Review | Trajal Harrell
The New York Times
BY: ALASTAIR MACAULAY
Published: October 16, 2008
At one point in Trajal Harrell’s 80-minute “Quartet for the End of Time” each of the four performers comes to the front of the stage and says, more than once, “I hope there is someone that will take care of me when I [...]
Truth or dare
Time Out New York / Issue 680: Oct 9–15, 2008
By Gia Kourlas
In his choreography, Trajal Harrell has tackled literature (Bret Easton Ellis’s Less Than Zero, James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room), the runway walk, voguing and, most recently in Showpony, the value of performing. Now, his focus is sincerity.
jill sigman/thinkdance
Dance Theater Workshop presents
jill sigman/thinkdance
in excerpts from the work-in-progress
ZsaZsaLand
as part of
The Studio Series
NOVEMBER 21-22, 2008 at 7:30pm
New York, NY, October 8, 2008 — In the first Studio Series of the season, choreographer Jill Sigman will culminate her 100-hour creative residency at Dance Theater Workshop with a performance of excerpts from her multi-media work-in-progress, ZsaZsaLand. [...]
A Minimalist Vanguard Retaking the Stage
Dance Review | Lar Lubovitch Dance Company
The New York Times
By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO
Published: October 2, 2008
Dance Theater Workshop is associated with experimental, challenging work. Lar Lubovitch is known for making pretty, romantic dances. One is insular, the other popular: opposite spectrums of the contemporary dance world.
On Ivana Muller’s “While We Were Holding It Together,” at the FIAF: Crossing the Line Festival
Aynsley Vandenbroucke writes about While We Were Holding It Together…
“Each time the performers make a statement, I see their shapes, their stillness, as something different. My perception of the very same picture shifts enormously. What was a hand becomes a branch or a bus pole or a microphone stand.” Read the Post
Movement Is Suspended, Unlocking the Imagination
The New York Times
By GIA KOURLAS
Published: September 26, 2008
Ivana Müller is an artist, born in Croatia and now living in France, who begins projects with a seemingly simple conceptual idea. She also loves words. Her latest two works combine both to wrestle with a critical notion about movement itself: Can it exist without the body? [...]
David Gordon Pick Up Performance Co(S.)
Dance Theater Workshop presents
Trying Times (remembered) by
David Gordon
Pick Up Performance Co(S.)
DECEMBER 11-13 & 16-20 at 7:30pm
New York, NY, September 26, 2008 – David Gordon returns to Dance Theater Workshop after 14 years with a reconstruction of Trying Times (remembered), originally commissioned by Dance Theater Workshop and David R. White in 1982 and not seen [...]
Appointment of Andrea Sholler as Executive Director
Dance Theater Workshop
Appoints Andrea Sholler Executive Director
New York, NY, September 24, 2008 – The Board of Directors of Dance Theater Workshop has named Andrea Sholler as its new Executive Director effective October 1. Stephen Greco will step down from that position and will focus on marketing and branding opportunities for cultural institutions. Sholler served [...]
Family Matters: Playground
Dance theater Workshop presents
an afternoon of global groove, ukulele music, and soaring moves
in the newest installment of the
Family Matters Series
Playground
DECEMBER 6 at 2pm
TICKETS FOR KIDS ARE FREE
New York, NY, September 19, 2008 – Dance Theater Workshop presents another thrilling showcase in the 2008 Family Matters Series this fall. Hosted by Nation Beat and [...]
