The American invasion of Iraq has seldom been addressed directly in modern dance in New York, so the notion that Victoria Marks would take on this overwhelming issue was very good news.
The 21 young performers in the lively “Spirit of Uganda,” a music and dance revue that opened on Tuesday night at the Joyce Theater, are from a country where, according to the program, 2.4 million children have lost their parents to AIDS, civil war and poverty.
Kevin Augustine’s Lone Wolf Tribe opened at Performance Space 122 trailing awards and blurbs of critical praise. On the evidence of “Bride,” it is difficult to understand why.
There are dances that seem to open a door and welcome you into another world. Laura Pawel’s pieces beckon from rocking chairs on a front porch, where old friends are engaged in murmured, antic conversation.