Choreography

Dance That Looks Like Music Sounds: Hubbard Street's Alejandro Cerrudo

Johnny Nevin | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Hubbard Street Dance, Choreography, Dance, Alejandro Cerrudo, Music for Dance, Culture News
Johnny Nevin

One of the most revolutionary developments in the art of choreography occurred gradually and unnoticed, as the ability to select music from multiple sources, and reconstruct that music into what is essentially a new structure, became widely available through software-based edititng.

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Voguing In China?!

Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Choreography, Video, Rashaad Newsome Hong Kong Art Fair, Hip Hop, Rashaad Newsome, Voguing, Chinese Instruments, Dance, Hong Kong Art Fair, Drag, China, Emerging Artists, Arts News

In a newly released video online, we see Rashaad Newsome schooling VIP art patrons at the Hong Kong International Art Fair (ART HK) on the art of vogu...

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Choreography: Transforming Personal Poisons Into Beauty?

Catherine L. Tully | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Dr. Nickitas Demos, Ballet, Dance, Choreography, Tara Lee, Atlanta Ballet, John Mcfall, Video, Culture News
Catherine L. Tully

Nick had also sent me a lovely adagio for the featured duet, and when I read that peacocks also represent fidelity and faithfulness, I thought it was another great match. It was exciting to see our once broad themes become more focused and inspired.

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'Werk! The Armitage Gone Variety Show'

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Massara | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Kalup Linzy, Choreography, Rave, Abrons Arts Center, Karole Armitage Werk, Karole Armitage Abrons Arts Center, Karole Armitage New York City, Punk Ballerina, Karole Armitage Choreographer, Video, John Zorn, Karole Armitage Work, Karole Armitage Show, Karole Armitage, Werk! The Armitage Gone Variety Show, Werk, Karole Armitage Dance, Arts News

Karole Armitage is, to put it bluntly, a force of nature. The prolific choreographer has been labeled the "punk ballerina" by countless publications, ...

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The Choreography of Understanding: Edwaard Liang and Age of Innocence

Johnny Nevin | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Edwaard Liang, Age of Innocence Dance, Video, Edwaard Liang Dance, Choreography, Joffrey Ballet, Dance, Age of Innocence Ballet, Age of Innocence, Culture News
Johnny Nevin

2012-05-01-20120428AgeofInnocenceCompany1photobyHerbertMigdoll_hp.jpg When the Joffrey Ballet performs Liang's Age of Innocence this month, their audience will see the return of a powerful and profound work, presented with richly-woven precision.

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A Strange And Beautiful One Woman Show

Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Women's Empowerment, Yoga, Choreography, Video, Performance Piece, One Woman Show, Kickstarter, Aurora Lagattuta, Performance Art, Female Artists, Arts News

We spend too much time scouring Kickstarter, looking to feature the next big artists. In our most recent search, dancer, artist, yogi and writer Auror...

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Choreography and Music: Alexandra Beller and Robert Poss

Johnny Nevin | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Other Stories, Dance, Choreography, Joyce Soho, Robert Poss, Composers, Alexandra Beller, Culture News
Johnny Nevin

"Other Stories" is the most recent project in Beller and Poss' multi-year collaboration, but beyond the noteworthy news of an important new work, there lies another narrative.

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Prokofiev's 'Romeo and Juliet' - A Sumptuous Revival at San Francisco Ballet

Sean Martinfield | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Choreography, Sergei Prokofiev, Romeo and Juliet, Helgi Tomasson, Gennadi Nedvigin, Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Vanessa Zahorian, Davit Karapetyan, Video, San Francisco News
Sean Martinfield

The San Francisco Ballet lifts Shakespeare's complex and familiar language off the gilded pages and translates it into lucid classical choreography that is visceral, fresh, and ultimately sublime.

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What Scientists Can Learn From Ballet

Sylvie Leotin | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Embryology, C. H. Waddington, Choreography, Inspiration, Art Meets Science, Dr. Root-Bernstein, Leonardo Da Vinci, Sylvie Leotin, Ballet, Dance, Barbara McClintock, John Cairns, Scientists, Science News
Sylvie Leotin

Scientists attending a dance performance will undoubtedly relate to the physicality and geometry of dance. The movement through time, the geometry of interactions, the symmetry of the lines, the balance of the bodies. All these have parallels in the physical interactions that occur in every science, from astronomy and physics, to chemistry and biology.

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This Is Your Brain On Dance!

Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Neuroscience, Choreography, Video, Riley Watts, Urban Living, Art Meets Science, Brain, Dr. Emily Cross, Science, Dance, Neurology, Bangar University, Neuroaesthetics, Arts News

We can guess what our brains go through while we're dancing; we experience euphoria, elation, happiness, and probably nervousness for those with two l...

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THROB: Dance Explodes How Hearts Pound

Posted 02.15.2012

Read More: Dancing, Andy Akiho, Choreography, Heart, Video, Art Meets Science, Dr. Holly Andersen, Biology, Throb, Jody Oberfeld, Theater, Performance Art, Weston Minissali, New York Art, Arts News

So often is the heart symbolized as the house of the soul or the vehicle of love, sometimes we forget it is a highly physical, hardworking organ of ou...

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Don Quixote at Pacific Northwest Ballet

Steven Mesler | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Choreography, Dance, Pacific Northwest, Pnb, Alexei Ratmansky, Arts News
Steven Mesler

Finding an unflattering photo, film clip, or an awkward moment of Carla Körbes and Karel Cruz together is impossible. The two of them dance the leads in the American premiere of Don Quixote and they are not to be missed.

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SF Ballet's Onegin: Intensely Dramatic With 'Devilish' Choreography!

Katita Waldo | Posted 01.25.2012

Read More: Choreography, Yuri Possokhov, San Francisco Ballet. Katita Waldo, Characters, Pushkin, Choreographer, Ballet, Dancers, Wayne McGregor, Music, Sf Ballet, Sfb, San Francisco, Christopher Wheeldon, Onegin, 2012, San Francisco News
Katita Waldo

Choreographically, the ballet is devilish and the partnering is unbelievably hard! The biggest challenge though, is to master the choreography while transcending the difficulty of the steps to tell the story.

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Lines Ballet's Resin Breaks Down Ballet's Conventions

Larissa Archer | Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Alonzo King, Sephardic Music, Ballet, Lines Ballet, Choreography, Dance, Pas De Deux, San Francisco Dance, San Francisco News
Larissa Archer

Resin, the showcase of Lines Ballet's fall season, exemplifies what makes the company a treasure for San Francisco and the world of dance.

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SONiC Snapshots: Oscar Bettison and Rebecca Stenn/Konrad Kaczmarek

Daniel J. Kushner | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Choreography, Contemporary Classical, Oscar Bettison, Rebecca Stenn, Dance, New Music, SONiC Festival, New York City, Konrad Kaczmarek, Ensemble Klang, Arts News
Daniel J. Kushner

I spoke with composer Oscar Bettison about his 65-minute opus O Death, excerpts of which will be performed on Wednesday as part of the SONiC Festival in New York.

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French Choreographer Roland Petit Dies At 87

AP | Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: Performing Arts, Choreography, France, Death and Dying, Paris National Opera, French, Ballet, Dance, Roland Petit, Paris, Death, Arts News

PARIS -- Acclaimed choreographer Roland Petit, whose creations dazzled stages from Paris to Hollywood and inspired dancers, writers and designers has ...

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'The Soldier's Tale': An Acrobatic Interpretation Of Stravinsky

Posted 07.29.2011

Read More: Art, Choreography, Stravinsky. Jody Oderfelder, Schimmel Center for the Arts, Cool, Pace University, Things to Do in NYC, Theatre, Theater, Dance, The Soldier's Tale, Music, New York, New York City, Performance, Arts News

From June 9th to June 11th a new production of Stravinsky’s “The Soldiers Tale” will be perfomed at Pace University's Schimmel Center for the Ar...

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Studio Visit: Keegan Mchargue, Jack Of All Trades

Posted 06.25.2011

Read More: Choreography, Artist-Studios, Sculpture, Drawing, Bosch, Keegan Mchargue, Slideshow, Beautiful/Decay Studio Visits, John Baldessari, Artist-Studio-Visits, Painting, Studio Visit, Beautiful/Decay, Arts News

(Via Beautiful/Decay) Always jazzed to find exceptional young talent like Keegan Mchargue. His color palettes, compositions, and ridiculously heal...

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PHOTOS: Genius Choreography

Debra Levine | Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Paul Taylor Dance Company, Slidepollajax, Paul Taylor, Michael Trusnovec, Michelle Fleet, Annamaria Mazzini, Yerba Buena Performing Arts Center, Choreography, Modern Dance, Ballet, Dance, Arts News
Debra Levine

The surviving genius of the second generation of American modern dance, Paul Taylor, 80, still goes into the dance studio and creates two new works a ...

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What the World of Dance Can Learn From World of Warcraft

Jennifer Edwards | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Future of Dance, World of Warcraft, Dance, Dance Management, Art Management, Choreography, Online Games, So You Think You Can Dance, American Ballet Theater, Abt, Danny Tidwell, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Arts News
Jennifer Edwards

Given the strong community aspect of WoW and the level of commitment players maintain, I was fascinated by the choreographic aspects of this technologically interactive platform.

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Brainy And Statuesque: Interview With Choreography Legend Bill T. Jones

Kris Wilton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Choreography, Bill T. Jones, Elizabeth Streb, ICA Boston, Karole Armitage, Dance, Arnie Zane, Bill T.Jones/Arnie Zane Co., Body Against Body, So You Think You Can Dance, Marina Abramovic, Dancing With the Stars, Arts News
Kris Wilton

Bill T. Jones has a long history of pushing envelopes and challenging audiences. In the 1970s, when he was getting his start in New York's downtown da...

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Up & Over It: They Don't Speak Usual Irish Dance

James M. Russell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Riverdance, Choreography, Jonny Reed, Irish Dancing, Magic of the Dance, Entertainment, Suzanne Harding, Fun, Arts, Hand Dancing, Up and Over It, Ireland, Dance, Irish Dance, Peter Cleary, Arts News
James M. Russell

If you're one to believe that the most innovative people begin in their craft when they are young, then it will likely not be a surprise that Irish dancers Suzanne Cleary and Peter Harding have been dancing for most of their lives.

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CHOREOGRAPHER SPOTLIGHT: Catastrophe, God, And The Meaning Of Life: Sean Curran's Left Exit

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Cage, IMG Artists, Choreography, God, Debartolo Performing Arts Center, Jerome Begin, Left Exit, Sean-Curran, Performing Arts, Astra-Taylor, Slidepollajax, Catastrophe, Dance, University of Notre Dame, Arts News

WHO: Seán Curran Company WHAT: Left Exit WHEN: October 27 - 29, 2010 WHERE: DeBartolo Performing Arts Center 100 Performing Arts Center Notre Dame...

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EXHIBITION SPOTLIGHT: Adventures In New Puppetry At Walker Art Center

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Puppetry, Choreography, Astrophysics, Puppetry, Minneapolis, William Forsthye, Crystal Pite, Minneapolis Art, Kidd Pivot Frankfurt RM, Cosmology, Ballett Frankfurt, Theatrical, Walker Art Center, Dance, Dark Matters, Slidefullscreen, Arts News

WHO: Kidd Pivot Frankfurt RM WHAT: Dark Matters WHEN: Thursday-Saturday, October14-16, 2010 WHERE: Walker Art Center William and Nadine McGuire The...

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WATCH: DANCE: J.U.I.C.E Third Annual Hip Hop Dance Festival, Los Angeles

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: J.U.i.C.E Hip Hop Festival, Choreography, Slideshow, Concerts, Breakdance, Ford-Amphitheatre, Choreographers, Hip Hop, International Dance, Dance, World Order, Street Dance, Arts News

In 2007, choreographers Amy "Catfox" Campion and Jacob "Kujo" Lyons opened the first annual J.U.i.C.E. Hip Hop Festival. Three years later it has bec...

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