I started writing about dance in the mid-2000s. I won’t say that the state of professional arts journalism was exactly sanguine at the time, but as I remember it now, it was at least possible to think of arts journalism as a profession with a future. I had lots of senior colleagues then, people I […]

We all know the internet has overhauled traditional dance criticism, giving anyone with an opinion and a wifi connection the ability to share their thoughts, no matter how informed—or not—those thoughts might be. But should those who take part in a ballet have their say as well? Last week, writer Hanna Weibye reviewed a Royal […]

Sadler’s Wells Theatre and the Barbican London, England June 6–July 9, 2012 Seven weeks before the 2012 Olympics opened in London, the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch began a marathon of its own. Dividing its time between Sadler’s Wells and the Barbican, the company presented a spectacular series of 10 evening-long works under the umbrella title […]

Cheryl Chaddick’s company offered a comic take on corporate culture in Hard Drive. Courtesy Lorien Fenton Marin Twenty-First Century Dance Collaboration Marin Center Showcase Theater San Rafael, California September 29, 2001 Reviewed by Rita Felciano With few small theaters, less of a nightlife, and real estate prices in the stratosphere, Marin County is the stepchild […]

Kathleen Dyer New York St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery New York, New York February 14, 2001 Reviewed by Kevin Giordano Of the two premieres which Kathleen Dyer New York presented in the program “The Well Seasons,” only the first, Chaingers, jelled. The evening’s second premiere, The Making of Dr. Horn, cried out for editing. Chaingers‘s theme was […]

Talking Dance The Kitchen New York, New York January 3–February 1, 2001 Reviewed by Wendy Perron Wacky hostessing is all the rage downtown, and The Kitchen’s Talking Dance series lucked out with Lucy Sexton and Anne Iobst, known as the DanceNoise duo. A highlight of the club scene in the 1980s, they now perform separately: […]

San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival Palace of Fine Arts San Francisco, California June 1-27, 1999 Reviewed by Rita Felciano In San Francisco the annual return of the twenty-one-year-old Ethnic Dance Festival (EDF) signals the advent of the foggy summer as surely as the sight of shivering tourists. The EDF is a simple but genuine celebration […]

New York Theatre Ballet Sylvia & Danny Kaye Playhouse New York City, New York March 19-21, 1998 Reviewed by Robert Greskovic Longevity and ambition understandably bring notice and recognition to an arts organization. So, as New York Theatre Ballet, formerly known as Balletfore, celebrated a twentieth anniversary, suitable congratulations were in order. To mark the […]