Email Author Deborah Jowitt

2007 Stories by Deborah Jowitt

• Sweeping It Clean

  published October 30, 2007

  Not many New York dance performances begin with the sound of frogs, stray birdcalls, and the swish of grass brooms against the floor. But the 26... More >>

• American Ballet Theatre, Up Close

  published October 23, 2007

  Every spring, American Ballet Theatre displays its world-class dancers at the vast Metropolitan Opera House, primarily in tutu-and-tiara... More >>

• Eiko and Koma Pity the Earth

  published October 23, 2007

  The Japan Society's ongoing celebration, "Turning Japanese," included a three-week mini-festival, "Kazuo Ohno 101," in which butoh artists honored... More >>

• Dancing Opera

  published October 23, 2007

  James Sewell danced for six years with Eliot Feld’s company on the stage of the Joyce. That may have been when he got the idea that a ballet... More >>

• Throw That Ball!

  published October 23, 2007

  Say you’re a choreographer born to a theatrical family, with a funky dance background and a thing for sports. How do you feed all that into a... More >>

• A BAM Audience Yells and Screams

  published October 16, 2007

  What brought BAM audience members to their feet and made them yell and scream? Was it Nacho Duato’s choreography, or the Compañia... More >>

• Enter, Morphoses

  published October 16, 2007

  The buzz surrounding the New York debut of Christopher Wheeldon's new company, Morphoses, drew a large opening-night crowd. Wheeldon's mission... More >>

• Hands Across Many Seas

  published October 9, 2007

  Words by Willem de Kooning, "Reality is a slipping glimpse," gave Margaret Jenkins a title for her recent, enthralling piece. During the prologue... More >>

• A Wrinkle in Time

  published October 9, 2007

  Once I knew something about the parallels between Buddhist thought and contemporary physics, but I never could have imagined a dance like Donna... More >>

• True Love Triumphs, Gently in Cambodian Classical Dance

  published October 9, 2007

  It is startling to consider the violence and cruelty of Pol Pot’s Killing Fields in relation to the tranquility and harmony of... More >>

• High on Speed

  published October 2, 2007

  The public’s thirst for cross-cultural artistic cocktails seems on the rise, and choreographers are responding in increasingly daring ways.... More >>

• Writing on Air: Wild Cursive

  published October 2, 2007

  To Western eyes, Chinese calligraphy appears precise, complex, guarded, and infused with meanings within meanings. The style known as Kuang... More >>

• FranceOff! The Lower East Side takes on la France

  published October 2, 2007

  "Crossing the Line," a fall festival presented by the French Institute/Alliance Française, introduces cutting-edge French arts to New York... More >>

• Baroque Dance Experts Play Games with Tradition

  published September 25, 2007

  Slipping inside the body and into the psyche of an 18th-century dancer requires not only scholarship but finely honed intuition. Even those who... More >>

• The Price Is Right

  published September 25, 2007

  When cultural institutions bemoan the graying of their audiences, they surely realize that increasingly hefty ticket prices may be a factor.... More >>

• Earth Movers

  published September 25, 2007

  Build a wooden frame and fill it with dirt and water. Stir. Tamp down hard. Let dry. Keep this up and you'll have a rammed earth house. Tere... More >>

• Letting It All Go

  published September 18, 2007

  “During the regime.” “After the regime.” I heard these expressions a lot during a 2004 gathering of critics from Eastern... More >>

• The Amazing Adventures of Clay

  published September 18, 2007

  The Frenchman and -woman sipping wine at the reception are perplexed and disappointed. They came to the New York premiere of Paso Doble... More >>

• Past Present

  published September 18, 2007

  Dancers and choreographers tend to be unconcerned with what came before them; they live in a sweaty present of creative ferment, occasionally... More >>

• Graham Redux

  published September 11, 2007

  In 1930, Martha Graham sat on a stool and, with jutting knees and elbows, strained against the tube of stretch jersey that encased her, as if it... More >>

• Blown Apart

  published September 11, 2007

  In the Oz books, Dorothy and her chums often encounter tribes with curious habits. Cautiously, a traveler whispers something like, "They... More >>

• Digitized Ruptures

  published September 4, 2007

  I'm guessing that a lot of you wouldn't know about this competition: the Prix Ars Electronica CyberArts. Am I right? I mention it because Troika... More >>

• Ripeness Is All

  published September 4, 2007

  As usual, Dancenow NYC opened the fall season at Dance Theater Workshop with a message of inclusiveness. This year's "40Up" programs featured... More >>

• Changing Places

  published August 28, 2007

  Some site-specific pieces forever transform the landscape they inhabit. For years, I couldn't pass a parking lot between West Broadway and Wooster... More >>

• Looky Here

  published August 14, 2007

  A title like Looky opens little doors in the mind: "looky" as in "Here comes cookie," or as in some cocky kid's "Looky what I got!" When... More >>