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Direct from the ImPulsTanz Festival in Vienna

posted Thursday, Jul 24

Blogging from the ImPulsTanz festival in Vienna is similar to balancing your checkbook while running a steeplechase race. How do I find an internal coordination when the terrain is changing constantly?  I am working as a danceWEB scholarship student within the frame of this five-week international festival of dance, performances and workshops w…

 
 


Wendy Perron

Does Chaos Make Good Theater?

posted Sunday, Jul 20

I saw two pieces that embraced chaos at the Lincoln Center Festival this week: William Forsythe’s Impressing the Czar (1988), and the Gate Theatre’s I’ll Go On, a one-man play based on Beckett’s writings. Both began in a no man’s land of chaos, and ended in a hurricane of focused energy. I will remembe…

 
 


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Time Out for Desmond

posted Thursday, Jul 17

Something wonderful happened on So You Think You Can Dance last night. The show had two new dances genres (this isn’t the wonderful part): the two-step and the “pas de deux.”  Well it wasn’t a classical ballet pas de deux; it was choreographed and taught to the couple by Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson.Afte…

 
 


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100 Calorie Packs = 0 Nutritional Value

posted Thursday, Jul 17

It’s afternoon snack time, so you grab a cute, itsy-bitsy bag of peanut butter cookie crips before heading into the next rehearsal. Ten minutes later, the hunger returns. Shocking! 100 Calorie Packs, now available in any processed carb imaginable, lack real fiber and vitamins needed to provide fuel and make you feel full. Nature offers way …

 
 


Wendy Perron

Marcelo, Are you OK?

posted Monday, Jul 14

I’ve never seen an Albrecht who is so convincing that you actually worry about him depleting himself. When ABT’s Marcelo Gomes and Paloma Herrera danced their Giselle last Wednesday, they seemed to draw inspiration from each other. She was sweet, natural, and vulnerable to him. He gathered dramatic steam, and by Act II, he was c…

 
 


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Tappers Won’t Stop: Tap City’s first night

posted Saturday, Jul 12

Tap dancers don’t even stop dancing when they accept their awards. That was evident on Tuesday night at Symphony Space when Tony Waag and Constance Valis Hill presented a Hoofer award to Tina Pratt. She just kept floating around the stage, tapping in her easy gentle style, even when she said her Thank Yous. She got Hill and Waag moving too, so…