At Dance For Life 2019, Robyn Mineko Williams will present an excerpt from Echo Mine, and we asked Robyn about the work, about Claire Bataille, and about Dance for Life. Here's what she told us:
On Friday and Saturday July 26th and 27th, Aerial Dance Chicago brings their latest production, "Higher Ground" to Chicago's Ruth Page Center for the Arts. We asked Company Dancer Hannah Rosenfeld to give us an inside look at what we'll see. Here's what she told us:
With its initial four week run extended to a sold-out multi-year engagement, the off-Broadway production of Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish is quite a success story. We asked James Monroe Števko all about the show and the Jerome Robbins choreography he performs as Mendel. Here's what he told us:
One of the things that makes Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre so visionary in what they do is that in twenty years they've never stopped expanding their vision. To get ready for their Inside/Out performane at Studio5, we spoke to Leandro López Várady, and here's what he told us:
Zachary Whittenburg isn't just one of the most informative voices in dance writing, he also knows the annual New Dances project as well as anyone, so we just had to ask him what we'll see at NEW Dances 2019. Here's what he told us:
In a brand new work for the 2019 Pivot Arts Festival, Brittany Harlin explores the complementary subjects of what makes us hurt and what makes us whole. We asked Brittany about her creative vision for Don't Forget Your Mother, and here's what she told us:
Boston's Urbanity Dance presents "Fragments", including Jenna Pollock's "the promenade (in progress)" and new works by Shura Baryshnikov, Chantal Doucett, Mike Esperanza , Andy and Dionne Noble, and Jacob Regan. DancerMusic asked Jenna about her work, and here's what she told us:
if you wanted to learn more about dance, or more about music, a very good place to start would be to talk to David K. Israel. DancerMusic's Johnny Nevin did just that, and asked David about working with Bernstein, Robbins, Tharp and Taylor, not to mention his new film about Ballanchine. Here's what he told us:
The annual #Dance4OurLives programs are an inspiring story, and a promising one, so of course we wanted to find out as much as we could about it. We asked GiGi Tonyé to share her story and her vision with us in a little more depth, and here's what she told us:
Alan Sims speaks with DancerMusic about how Tai Ji and the other Internal and Martial Arts understand movement, and how dancers can understand that. Here's what he told us: