Email Author Deborah Jowitt

2011 Stories by Deborah Jowitt

• Fall Arts: The Merce Cunningham Company Dances to an End

  published September 7, 2011

  A choreographer dies; the work lives on. Or does it? And if the artist in question has created and maintained a company devoted to the... More >>

• Fall Dance Picks

  published September 7, 2011

  Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company More >>

• Susan Marshall Gets Intimate

  published June 8, 2011

  The year: 1985. The place: Dance Theater Workshop. A man and a woman stand shoulder to shoulder, close to the audience, to perform Susan... More >>

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  Thief Goes Gaga—Armitage Gone! Dance at the Joyce

  published May 4, 2011

  Let’s face it. Choreographers are thieves. Like magpies, they see the glint of bright bits and grab them to bedeck their nests—er,... More >>

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  Ailey II Step On In With Shards and Common

  published April 20, 2011

  The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's kid sibling, Ailey II, is more than just a farm team to supply the parent company with fresh blood now... More >>

• Juliette Mapp Reads Gertrude Stein; Paradigm Celebrates Two Different Birthdays

  published April 20, 2011

  Gertrude Stein was a woman of few words. She wrote few words that became many words— words that twisted back on themselves, picking up words... More >>

• Stephen Petronio Venures Into a Dark World, Chunky Move Lights One Up

  published April 13, 2011

  For once, I didn’t read the program. When the lights came up on Stephen Petronio’s Underland, I watched videos of fiery... More >>

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  The Merce Cunningham Dance Company's Long Goodbye

  published April 6, 2011

  The members of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company are dancing as if there's no tomorrow. And in a sense that's true. These 15 supremely gifted... More >>

• Noh Drama and Eiko and Koma Travel Slowly Into Dreams

  published March 30, 2011

  Unrequited love, infidelity, revenge, battles for territory and honor, suicide, repentance! I’m not talking about spaghetti westerns or... More >>

• Juilliard Revives Nijinska’s Les Noces; the Irish Modern Dance Theatre Brings Fall and Recover to La MaMa

  published March 30, 2011

  During the first third of the 20th-century, European art was awash in revolutionary movements. By 1923, dada, with its witty outrages,... More >>

• A Martha Graham Masterwork Revived at Frederick P. Rose Hall, Plus a Little Robert Wilson

  published March 23, 2011

  One great theme haunts many of Martha Graham’s dances: The hero-artist must descend into the depths, struggle with demons, and experience... More >>

• Trisha Brown Goes on a Forest Foray, Vicky Shick Feels Not Entirely Herself

  published March 23, 2011

  Foray/Forêt. . .the title couldn’t be more apt. Trisha Brown grew up roaming the forest in the Pacific Northwest; she worked on... More >>

• Mark Morris Debuts Festival Dance, Doug Varone Give Chapters From a Broken Novel Its New York Premiere

  published March 23, 2011

  If you listen to pop music these days, you probably wag your head and jerk your shoulders with the beat. But there’s other music that sets... More >>

• Yvonne Rainer's Got Game at the Baryshnikov Arts Center; the Royal Danish Ballet Dances the Guggenheim

  published March 23, 2011

  The adventurous works of the 1960s and 1970s came to be identified as postmodern some time after the question, “Is it dance or not?” had... More >>

• A Paul Taylor Smackdown

  published March 2, 2011

  Sometimes I wonder what Paul Taylor's dreams are like (and sometimes I'd rather not know). The first premiere of his company's City Center... More >>

• Paul Taylor Tries a Phantasmagoria, Benjamin Millepied Opts for Plainspoken

  published March 2, 2011

  Interviewed by Time Magazine in 1962, Martha Graham described the heroine of her new Phaedra as “a phantasmagoria of... More >>

• Bill Young and Colleen Thomas Throw a Strange Party

  published February 23, 2011

  A guy lurches back from the cash bar, carrying overflowing plastic glasses of beer for himself and his buddies. A woman is asked to please go sit... More >>

• Susan Stroman Dukes It Out

  published February 16, 2011

  I saw Susan Stroman's two-part For the Love of Duke as the closer to a mostly kid-friendly New York City Ballet matinee that began with... More >>

• Walter Dundervill and Trajall Harrell Give New Meaning to the Word “Show”

  published February 16, 2011

  Somewhere in the middle of Walter Dundervill’s entrancing new Destiny 1: Candy Mountain, a performer says, “It’s all... More >>

• Cori Olinghouse and Guests Shift Their Shapes and Wake Up the Past

  published February 9, 2011

  This is the second year that Danspace Project has asked various dance artists to mastermind a series of performances in Saint Mark’s Church... More >>

• "Dance on Camera"--Bodala, The Last Tightrope Dancer in Armenia, Doris Humphrey, and Pina Bausch

  published February 9, 2011

  The man loves to dance! He feels happy, empowered. And what is the dancing that so thrills him? A Swiss traditional form called the... More >>

• Jan Fabre's Prometheus-Landscape II Fires Up the Performance Scene

  published February 2, 2011

  In the late 19th century, a "spectacle" meant sorcerers and flying fairies, parades, tricks of light, disappearing acts, and, maybe, real... More >>

• Andrea Miller and Sidra Bell Tell It Like It Is. Maybe.

  published January 26, 2011

  Sometimes I wish choreographers revealed more about their intentions in titles and program notes; sometimes I wish they said less. Then... More >>

• Sarah Michelson Teams Up With Richard Maxwell for Devotion

  published January 19, 2011

  Sarah Michelson is an artist you can trust, even if you're not exactly sure what she's doing. She's brilliant at making apparently simple... More >>

• From Switzerland, Ireland, and the U.S.: Guys on Guys

  published January 12, 2011

  As I worked my way down the aisle of the Joyce, after the opening-night applause for Philippe Saire’s Lonesome Cowboy... More >>