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1998 Stories by Deborah Jowitt

• Christmas Candy

  published December 29, 1998

  We know this world pierced by beams of smoky light and besieged by crashes of electronic music. Its denizens are beautiful, fierce, and obsessed... More >>

• Taking It Apart

  published December 22, 1998

  Seeing the ballets William Forsythe has contributed to various American companies is no substitute for watching the dancers in his own Ballett... More >>

• Listen Up!

  published December 15, 1998

  The flamenco dancer duels with the floor. The Irish step dancer gives it an airy bit of slap and tickle. The tap dancer teases sounds out of it,... More >>

• Going Gold

  published December 8, 1998

  On October 11, 1948, Lincoln Kirstein's Ballet Society (two years old and boasting 800 subscribers) became the New York City Ballet. During its... More >>

• Rich and Strange

  published December 1, 1998

  Two men smooth their hands over each other's bodies. They slide into an embrace, interlocking as formally as the twin halves of a yin/yang symbol.... More >>

• Solid Gold

  published November 24, 1998

  Garth Fagan doesn't need to think about creating positive images of African Americans onstage; his dance style itself is empowering. The glorious... More >>

• Lion's Share

  published November 17, 1998

  One night, The Lion King's dance captain, Aubrey Lynch II, felt his troops were getting a bit lackadaisical. "Thirty to 50 years ago," he... More >>

• Feel the Burn

  published November 3, 1998

  Sometimes the quietest images sear the mind. As Incidents, the first of Ronald K. Brown's three programs, begins, a woman (Torya Beard)... More >>

• In-flight Ballet

  published October 27, 1998

  And you thought 19th-century ballet scenarios were illogical! If your mind doesn't instantly turn to crème caramel at the sight of... More >>

• Dream On

  published October 20, 1998

  Think of Bill T. Jones, and chances are you think of an angry man. In some of his politically charged pieces, even beauty seems to pose an enraged... More >>

• Pared Down

  published October 13, 1998

  Do that again and I'll scream,'' says the mother. Hooked on repetition, the child is startled. Faced with extreme repetitiveness in music or... More >>

• Millennial Rites

  published October 13, 1998

  The Italian restaurant clatters with the din of New York at lunch. Director Vasilios Calitsis has stamped out a cigarette at the door and is now... More >>

• Showing Soul

  published October 6, 1998

  When the members of Dayton Contemporary Dance Company hit the stage in excerpts from Talley Beatty's 1960 Come and Get the Beauty of It Hot and... More >>

• Beyond Human

  published September 29, 1998

  Horses have a long history as dancers. A Renaissance prince with gold in his coffers and a major celebration looming could always commission a... More >>

• Cooking in Chelsea

  published September 22, 1998

  At a little before 10 a.m., Elise Bernhardt, executive director of the Kitchen Center for Video, Music, Dance, Performance, Film, and Literature,... More >>

• Writ in Water

  published August 25, 1998

  If you thought you'd missed Basil Twist's Symphonie Fantastique, you'd be wrong; its run has been extended until the end of the year (maybe... More >>