DANCE REVIEWS
Rare Night with Dance Legend Robert Cohan Tops LIVE ARTS FEST 2015, and it’s Not Over
“I listened to Vivaldi’s music for six months, and I couldn’t imagine a piece,” said Cohan,” but finally at sunset I knew I could choreograph it. The mother stands at the cross weeping…it took me months and I worked with Kate. It’s formed mathematically, and we have to make it meaningful. Dance is an extreme form of movement language.”
Read MoreLive Arts Fest Honors Dance Legacies and Makes Critic Sweat
When we had to do a movement phrase crossing the floor, I started to think that being onstage was a very bad idea. This year’s Live Arts Fest offered not just a look at dance legacies, but actual somatic experience. Plus a lesson that choreographers age incredibly well … Bella Lewitzky started her company at 50 and led it for 30 years; and Robert Cohan, whom the little festival that could brought from London, showed a fresh new work he’d created at 90.
Read MoreWhy Everyone’s Talking ’bout Walking in ‘This Land is Your Land’
youTurn has landed more than a dance hit in Mark Haim’s influential This Land is Your Land… Producers Erica Buechner and Anne Gehman are writing a remarkable success story, and 14 of San Diego’s favorite dancers are walking their way into the hearts and minds of viewers with questions about identity, consumer waste, and gun violence.
Read MoreSan Diego Dances at Bread & Salt … and Provides a Full Meal
Gaga. Opera. A foot-stomping dance-off with tap, flamenco, and Bharata Natyam artists shaking the floor. The PGK Dance Project’s “San Diego Dances” kept the thrills coming. The excitement began with the venue …
Read MoreNext Generation revealed in ‘Choreographers Showcase & Prize’
Siegel and Acuña changed direction on the diagonal and were gliding toward the audience when their dance was cut short. Blinding lights flashed and an alarm sounded. A few in the crowd thought it might be part of the dance. We all ended up out on the sidewalk…
Read MoreRumbling with the Jets & Sharks in Dance-driven ‘West Side Story’
Fingers snap and fists clench in the first minutes of West Side Story and foreshadow steamy Latin and knife sharp dances yet to come…
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