"In her first meeting with the director, Washington offered Cameron the "third eye" greeting, a light finger touch to the forehead by the Na'vis. Her familiarity with ritual got her the gig."
"Set tai chi to Bach, perform it on a stage sopped with water and lit with moonlight, and you have the singularly transporting experience of "Moon Water," performed by Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan over the weekend at the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theater."
"On Thursday, you could argue that the company's success in the daunting Seasons divertissement at the end of Act 1 represented a new advance: evidence of the leadership of Ashley C. Wheater, the Joffrey's artistic director since 2007."
He then separates the dancers by gender, lines them up and asks each to perform a pair of ballet moves - a double pirouette and an arabesque that take just seconds to complete. Instantly, more than half of the would-be performers are eliminated.
"Swan Lake" may be about beautiful, pedigreed classical dancing, but it is also about the human condition, about taking responsibilities for our actions, even if they spell tragedy in the end."
"If there was ever any doubt that plotless dances are a myth, that every gesture can abound in meaning and unveil a universe of associations, they were eradicated by the exceptional pas de deux at the heart of Christopher Wheeldon's "Rhapsody Fantaisie," the concluding work on the West Coast debut program of Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company on Friday evening at Stanford University's Memorial Auditorium."
...And now there's ABBAWORLD — a new museum-cum-theme park in London with enough music, mementoes and memory-lane appeal to satisfy even the most fervent ABBA fan."
"It's always tricky when you mess with a ballet that many consider iconic, and it takes a steady hand to tackle the complexities of Igor Stravinsky, as the Savage Jazz Dance Company did with its premiere of "Agon," in the Laney College Theater on Thursday night."
"The 25th anniversary of Artistic Director Helgi Tomasson's union with the San Francisco Ballet was marked with a Silver Celebration gala fit for a Nordic king, or at least a fellow from Iceland, which he is."
