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Path Back to Dance, by Degrees

Posted: December 28th, 2008, 6:39am GMT by By GIA KOURLAS

In the summer of 2007, five professional dancers turned college students met at a diner to hatch a plan. By the time the plates were cleared, the Columbia Ballet Collaborative was born.

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Dance Review | 'A Celebration of the Humphrey-Weidman Legacy': That Old 20th-Century Fixation on the Nature of Humanity

Posted: December 16th, 2008, 5:15am GMT by By GIA KOURLAS

“A Celebration of the Humphrey-Weidman Legacy,” performed on Sunday afternoon at the 92nd Street Y, brought some early gems back to the stage.

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Dance Review | Movement Research Fall Festival 2008: 'Sidewinder': Improvising Dance Scores Inspired by Chinese Checkers

Posted: December 8th, 2008, 8:05am GMT by By GIA KOURLAS

This year’s festival is guided by the dancer and choreographer Jennifer Monson and the composer Zeena Parkins.

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Dance Review | RoseAnne Spradlin: Andy Warhol, a Beaded Curtain and a ’60s Sensibility

Posted: October 25th, 2008, 4:33am GMT by By GIA KOURLAS

RoseAnne Spradlin’s newest work, “Blue Liz,” shown on Thursday night at the Kitchen, finds its spark in Warhol’s 1963 painting “Blue Liz as Cleopatra.”

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Dance Review | Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker: No Distractions: Just the Seamless Dancing, Ma’am

Posted: October 24th, 2008, 4:22am GMT by By GIA KOURLAS

Steve Reich’s music is in excellent hands in this tribute to the Minimalist composer by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Dance Review | Jo Stromgren: Highly Caffeinated Dancers With Aversions (Gasp) to Tea

Posted: October 17th, 2008, 4:52am GMT by By GIA KOURLAS

Jo Stromgren’s “The Society, ” a piece in which performers move with jittery precision, expertly straddles the fragile line between humor and horror.

Dance Review: Le Hip and le Hop Combine in a Slice of Urban France

Posted: October 15th, 2008, 4:26am GMT by By GIA KOURLAS

There was little about Accrorap — a hip-hop troupe that performed the American premiere of “Littlestories.com” at Gould Hall on Friday night — to warrant obsession.

Dance Review | Kitt Johnson: Her Back Like a Fossil, a Dancer Evolves

Posted: October 11th, 2008, 4:30am GMT by By GIA KOURLAS

“Rankefod,” performed on Thursday at Danspace Project, is the second in a series of works by Danish choreographer Kitt Johnson that concentrate on the body, anatomy and choreography.

Dance Review: Creators Creating, Identities Fragmenting

Posted: October 7th, 2008, 6:18am GMT by By GIA KOURLAS

As the French Institute Alliance Française’s festival Crossing the Line was winding down — which is bittersweet, for it has been splendid — it presented four singular artists on film and in person.

Dance Review | 'A Light Conversation': What Bodies Talk About When They Talk About Love and Art

Posted: October 2nd, 2008, 7:10am GMT by By GIA KOURLAS

The first thought that crosses the mind when entering the Joyce SoHo for “A Light Conversation,” a collaboration by Wally Cardona and Rahel Vonmoos, is a pleasant one.

Dance Review | Ballet NY: Inhibitions Are Surrendered, but in a Very Decorous Way

Posted: September 25th, 2008, 4:02am GMT by By GIA KOURLAS

On Tuesday the group returned to the Joyce Theater with four ballets, two of them New York premieres, yet none offering much in the way of distinction.

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Dance Review | 'The Snow White Project': No One Is Sleepy or Dopey, and They Sure Don’t Seem Happy

Posted: September 18th, 2008, 4:56am GMT by By GIA KOURLAS

“The Snow White Project,” Catherine Baÿ’s edgy site-specific installation, transports the character from the land of fairy tales to the meatpacking district.

Dance Review: A Shot of Political Urgency on an Outdoor Double Bill

Posted: August 26th, 2008, 2:52am GMT by By GIA KOURLAS

Toshi Reagon and BIGLovely expressed outrage at the current American political climate; David Dorfman Dance filled out the second half of the show on Thursday night.

Dance Review: Flamenco Expanded: Arms Sweep, Feet Stomp, Screen Flickers

Posted: July 21st, 2008, 3:47am GMT by By GIA KOURLAS

The solo flamenco artist Nelida Tirado has a way with her arms, which unroll above her head like an ancient scroll.

Dance Review: Seeking Modern Relations

Posted: July 21st, 2008, 3:45am GMT by By GIA KOURLAS

“Still Life,” a new work by Nick Seligson-Ross, begins in a spotlight. If modern-dance clichés amuse you, not to worry: this choreographer keeps them coming.

Dance Review | Dance Out!: Art Amid Sprinklers and Seals

Posted: July 19th, 2008, 3:28am GMT by By GIA KOURLAS

Dance Out! showcased three artists on Wednesday night who took setting into careful consideration.

Dance Review | Royal Ballet of Flanders: Dizzying History, With Many Schoolgirls

Posted: July 19th, 2008, 3:16am GMT by By GIA KOURLAS

“Impressing the Czar” smells like teen spirit: it’s neither earth-shattering nor horrid, but it is a bit like being caught in a time warp.

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Dance Review | Rennie Harris Puremovement and Francesca Harper Project: Worlds Within the World of Balmy Central Park

Posted: July 14th, 2008, 3:01am GMT by By GIA KOURLAS

Both companies took a collage approach, remixing excerpts to form a new whole.

Dance Review: Trickle-Down Economics as Savior? No, Marry-Up

Posted: July 2nd, 2008, 2:01am GMT by By GIA KOURLAS

A balletic version of Franz Lehar’s operetta, “The Merry Widow, ”is a silly, antiquated concoction — and more a test of acting than of dancing.

Dance Review | RedShift: With Skirts of Crinoline and an Accordion Too

Posted: June 30th, 2008, 3:57am GMT by By GIA KOURLAS

RedShift Dance unites two choreographers, Kelly Hayes and Katy Orthwein, who met as teenagers while dancing at Joseph Holmes Chicago Dance Theater.

Dance Review: Some Crinoline and an Accordion Too

Posted: June 28th, 2008, 12:45am GMT by By GIA KOURLAS

RedShift Dance unites two choreographers, Kelly Hayes and Katy Orthwein, who met as teenagers while dancing at Joseph Holmes Chicago Dance Theater.

Dance Review | New York City Ballet: The Jerome Robbins Touch: Playful as a Somersault or Ethereal as Glass

Posted: June 16th, 2008, 7:56am GMT by By GIA KOURLAS

As part of its Jerome Robbins Celebration, New York City Ballet unveiled another homage to the choreographer in “Bach to Glass: A Musical Odyssey II.”

Dance Review: Nine Restless Dancers and One Slippery Creature

Posted: May 31st, 2008, 4:04am GMT by By GIA KOURLAS

“208 East Broadway, Part 2: Suitcase Dreams,” is a continuation of a work Susan Rethorst created in her living room.

Dance Review: Gliding Through Outer Space, Bathed in Trippy Colors

Posted: May 29th, 2008, 3:41am GMT by By GIA KOURLAS

“Lunar Sea,” an 85-minute work performed by Moses Pendleton’s company, Momix, at the Joyce Theater on Tuesday, makes for a trippy evening in which 12 dancers perform behind a scrim in black light.

Dance Review: Feet, Arms and Foam Tubing, All Moving to Led Zeppelin

Posted: March 29th, 2008, 1:06am GMT by By GIA KOURLAS

While Laura Peterson doesn’t alter the seating for “Electrolux,” a new work performed Thursday night at Dance New Amsterdam, she works wonders all the same.