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Dance: The Best ‘Nutcracker’? Online Voters Pick a Familiar Dysfunctional Work

Posted: December 24th, 2008, 6:06am GMT by By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO

The results are in for Ovation TV’s second annual “Battle of the Nutcrackers.”

Dance Review | 'The Nutcracker': The Crowd at the Traditional Holiday Party, With a Few Guests Taking New Roles

Posted: December 15th, 2008, 5:30am GMT by By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO

This performance had eight dancers with debuts in new roles, including corps members and a longtime principal, Darci Kistler, and a retired one, Jock Soto, as Frau and Dr. Stahlbaum.

Dance Review | 'Lewis Forever: Freak the Room': Form and Dysfunction From a Family Collective

Posted: December 9th, 2008, 5:02am GMT by By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO

A sort of anarchic creative energy pervades “Lewis Forever: Freak the Room,” which is having a premiere run at Performance Space 122.

Dance Review | 'Stacks' and 'Bracko': Amid a Sculptural Physicality, a Poet Walks and Talks Onstage

Posted: December 8th, 2008, 8:05am GMT by By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO

This program showed the difficulties and pleasures inherent in the collaboration between dance and poetry.

Theater Review | 'My Vaudeville Man!': Back When Vaudeville Was King, and Tapping Could Aspire to Royalty

Posted: November 19th, 2008, 5:35am GMT by By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO

Directed and choreographed by Lynne Taylor-Corbett, this show is based on the life of the tap dancer Jack Donahue.

Dance Review | Goat Island: Time to Say Goodbye, With Dry Wit and Camp

Posted: November 10th, 2008, 8:40am GMT by By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO

“The Lastmaker,” a 90-minute dance-theater piece that the group Goat Island has said will be its last, offers mysterious pleasures.

Dance Review | Tami Stronach Dance: The Lengths That Love Will Go to, Stilts and All

Posted: October 25th, 2008, 4:49am GMT by By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO

Tami Stronach’s “But it’s for you,” which had its premiere on Thursday at Danspace Project in St. Mark’s Church, depicts the grim, obsessive end stages of love.

Theater Review | 'Three Movements': A Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Master and His Muses

Posted: October 21st, 2008, 5:27am GMT by By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO

Not many people like melodramatic shows with mediocre acting and worse direction. Such a play, sadly, is “Three Movements.”

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Dance Review | OtherShore: A Smorgasbord of Movement in a Company’s Debut Performance

Posted: October 11th, 2008, 4:24am GMT by By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO

OtherShore presented three works that delve into the nature of human communication at the Baryshnikov Arts Center on Thursday.

Dance: Talk About Underground Movement

Posted: October 10th, 2008, 8:07pm GMT by By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO

Away from concert halls and pop radio, a singular art form of the Bronx continues to evolve, on the No. 4 and No. 5 trains.

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Dance Review | Noémi Lafrance: From the Lawn to the Rooftop, a Stage for High Fliers

Posted: October 7th, 2008, 6:15am GMT by By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO

Last weekend Noémie Lafrance’s Sens Production company completed a two-week stint at Bard College, where she presented “Rapture” on — not in — the Frank Gehry-designed Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts.

Dance Review | Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company: Wandering the World in Search of Herself

Posted: October 2nd, 2008, 6:45am GMT by By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO

In “A Quarreling Pair,” which opened on Tuesday at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival, Bill T. Jones isn’t out to soothe any nerves.

Dance Review | Fall for Dance: Sampler Offers Wide Range of Skills and a Deep Mixture of Movements

Posted: September 25th, 2008, 4:10am GMT by By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO

Would it kill the organizers of Fall for Dance to exhibit a hint of a curatorial eye now and then? Forget about giving each evening an arc; coherence would do.

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Dance Review | Jazz Tap Ensemble: Tracing Tap’s Origins and Toasting Its Titans

Posted: September 18th, 2008, 5:28am GMT by By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO

Jazz Tap Ensemble opened a weeklong run at the Joyce Theater on Tuesday evening with “Tap Roots,” an homage to the greats of the form.

Dance: Summer in the City and Its Outdoor Spaces

Posted: August 16th, 2008, 1:45am GMT by By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO

There is something undeniably romantic about performances that happen beyond the confines of the theater, particularly in a city as charismatic and changeable as New York.

Dance Review: Masters of Cultural and Stylistic Fusion in a Mash-Up of Their Very Own

Posted: August 12th, 2008, 1:31am GMT by By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO

A happy mash-up of forms and styles was part of the feast of works by Armitage Gone! Dance in collaboration with the band Burkina Electric and Evidence, a Dance Company.

Dance: Five Weeks of Ballet Lessons, the Bolshoi Way

Posted: July 27th, 2008, 1:39pm GMT by By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO

The Bolshoi Ballet Academy’s 2008 intensive summer program in Middlebury, Conn., is both a camp and a cross-cultural public relations effort.

Dance Review: Strange, Familiar, Prosaic and Erotic Doings From the Butoh Camp

Posted: July 21st, 2008, 3:46am GMT by By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO

The American Dance Festival wrapped up its 75th-anniversary season with its Japanese Festival.

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Dance Review | Bill T. Jones: Lincoln’s Legacy Brought Forth in Dance

Posted: July 14th, 2008, 3:13am GMT by By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO

“Another Evening: Serenade/The Proposition,” by Bill T. Jones, is a rich, messy notebook of ideas and conjectures, of generous experiments both failed and exciting.

Dance Review: Recalling Ancient Times: Say, 10 or 20 Years Ago

Posted: May 29th, 2008, 3:36am GMT by By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO

If you want to see where dance is headed, start with Somewhere Out There, Movement Research’s spring festival.

Dance Review: Grotesquerie and Ecstasy, on Both Street and Stage

Posted: May 28th, 2008, 4:25am GMT by By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO

Sometimes Butoh, the outré, avant-garde dance movement that developed in mid-20th-century Japan, seems tailor made for New York.

Dance Review: Flexing Those Mind and Body Muscles

Posted: March 11th, 2008, 4:37am GMT by By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO

On Saturday, as part of the sprawling survey “WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution,” P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in Queens honored a choreographic firebrand, Yvonne Rainer.