Posts Tagged ‘dance review’
A World I Want to Live In: Blythe Barton Dance at San Diego Fringe
A novelist of dance, Blythe Barton, in her longer work, creates vivid societies onstage. In “The only real world I know is mine,” her premiere at the San Diego Fringe Fest, Barton’s world was a generous place that I wanted to live in.
Read MoreLascivious Vampires and Artistic Choices
In spite of strong choreography and superb dancing, watching Zaquia Mahler Salinas’s “Hirudinea and Her Host” made me feel like I was in an artsy gentleman’s club. Find out why I think Salinas made problematic artistic choices … and join the conversation.
Read MoreThe Sound of One Girl Tapping
“On the Corner of Rhythm & Rhyme” at the San Diego Fringe Fest isn’t just a display of virtuoso tapping. California Rhythm Company director Nancy Boskin-Mullen and artistic director Pam Thompson-Spinner have put together San Diego’s answer to “Stomp.”
Read MoreJaw-Droppingly Good: “Victor Charlie” at San Diego International Fringe Festival
I’m betting that when “Victor Charlie” is a hit in a major theater, anyone who caught it at the Fringe is going to brag about seeing the world premiere in the Spreckels Theatre Raw space. By the way, the space is indeed raw, with paint peeling from the walls … and there may never be a more perfect venue for this show about a 1960s-era soldier than this former USO center.
Read MoreSmart Choreography Makes “Red Shoes Revamped” a San Diego Fringe Must-See
Dance reviews from the opening of the San Diego Fringe Festival. “The Red Shoes Revamped” is a must-see, and not just to catch David Wornovitzky in a blond wig and red frock.
Read MoreIMAGOmoves’ “Mapping Games” Puts New Venue on the Map
One of the pleasures of IMAGOmoves’ performance was the venue, the Encinitas Community Library. Another was Yolande Snaith’s solo, in which she conjured sculpture and music with gorgeous hand gestures. The rest of this dance, however, could have used a stronger authorial hand …
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