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2002 Stories by Deborah Jowitt

• Opening Doors

  published December 31, 2002

  Promises, promises! Not all the props mentioned in the press release for Yoshiko Chuma's AGITPROPS: The Recycling Project appeared at La... More >>

• Crack That Nut, Girl

  published December 24, 2002

  After seeing three versions of The Nutcracker in one week—George Balanchine's great spectacle for the New York City Ballet (at Lincoln... More >>

• Tangled Tales

  published December 17, 2002

  The members of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater pounce on choreography with the zeal of vampires offered a feast of blood, but a lot more... More >>

• Marrying the Arts

  published December 10, 2002

  "I arrived a stranger,/a stranger I depart." The winter wanderer of Wilhelm Müller's poem cycle Winterreise is not just mourning a... More >>

• Living Dolls

  published December 3, 2002

  We're used to the sight of virtual bodies hurtling through desperate video games. Cathy Weis works at the other end of the technology spectrum.... More >>

• Think Pink, Feel Pain

  published November 26, 2002

  Since when did minimalism come in bubblegum pink, jump high, and strut its stuff? Yet one of the giddy pleasures of Brian Brooks's... More >>

• Presenting 'The Body'

  published November 19, 2002

  Now that the human body has been OK'd as a component of discourse by scholars in a variety of disciplines, along comes a dance maker to... More >>

• Gathering Moss

  published November 12, 2002

  Dance is ephemeral, as we all know. And it suggests more than it tells. Some choreographers are committed to exploring that... More >>

• Slow Down!

  published November 5, 2002

  Ever since running and aerobics became popular more than 25 years ago, I've pondered whether people take them up for health alone, or to be able... More >>

• Showcasing Heroes

  published October 29, 2002

  The night after I saw Twyla Tharp's Movin' Out, I wished I were back in the Richard Rodgers Theater watching it all over again, to be... More >>

• Hold Me Together

  published October 22, 2002

  Ever since Stephen Petronio formed his own company in 1984, he has choreographed as if working on shifting ground. His dancers sketch an erect... More >>

• From Farther Shores

  published October 15, 2002

  When Willam Christensen took over the five-year-old San Francisco Opera Ballet in 1938, he thought big, staging the first complete American... More >>

• Spirits Rising

  published October 8, 2002

  Walk out onto the terrace that adjoins the gorgeous third-floor studios at Dance Theater Workshop's new Doris Duke Performance Center. Look north.... More >>

• Irons in the Fire

  published August 13, 2002

  Finnish choreographer Kenneth Kvarnström's stunning Fragile premiered on September 12, 2001. Even had it not borne the weight of the... More >>

• Looking Back With Love

  published August 6, 2002

  The audience rose to its feet at the end of each of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company's Lincoln Center Festival performances at New York State... More >>

• People in Black

  published July 30, 2002

  Earlier in the century, opera-house ballet companies had a reputation for stodginess. Their choreographers and dancers juggled Carmen and... More >>

• Nuts in May

  published May 21, 2002

  The single evening at City Center was entitled "Indisputably Martha Graham." As the legal battle over who actually owns Graham's works winds down,... More >>

• Run With It

  published May 14, 2002

  New York City Ballet's spring gala celebrated the 10th anniversary of the company's Diamond Project. At this tribute to fundraising fervor,... More >>

• Strange Partners

  published May 7, 2002

  Butoh does not always conform to its reputation as a "dance of darkness." Akira Kasai, making his New York debut with Pollen Revolution at... More >>

• Worlds Away

  published April 30, 2002

  In case you hadn't noticed, the dancers in Eliot Feld's Ballet Tech (at the Joyce through Sunday) are all grown-up. And they've been joined by... More >>

• Corn Oryx Pear Fish

  published April 23, 2002

  In precise, rhythmic unison, two expressionless men in black trousers and tailcoats partner working vacuum cleaners—hoisting them, spinning... More >>

• Women at Risk

  published April 23, 2002

  If Diana Szeinblum's stunning Secreto y Malibú, one of Dance Theater Workshop's Around Town presentations at the Duke, were the... More >>

• What's the Story?

  published April 16, 2002

  The hard-boiled sleuth has "a cleft in his chin that women wanted to touch." One of the women in question possesses "legs like freshly sharpened... More >>

• Transforming Spirits

  published April 9, 2002

  Eliot Feld celebrated American spirit and diversity at the opening gala of his Ballet Tech's Joyce season (through May 5). Two of his school's... More >>

• Counterculture Riffs

  published April 2, 2002

  Boris Eifman is a culture hero—a Jew and a renegade who, 25 years ago, founded in St. Petersburg an independent dance company, undaunted by... More >>