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2008 Stories by Deborah Jowitt

• India Invades German!

  published December 17, 2008

  Once upon a time, Pina Bausch made grim works. Members of her Tanztheater Wuppertal came onstage for their curtain call looking as if they'd... More >>

• David Gordon Makes His Past New

  published December 17, 2008

  “He plays hide-and-seek rather than pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey,” says Valda Setterfield near the end of Trying Times 1982... More >>

• Sin Some More!

  published December 10, 2008

  A woman in a flesh-colored, semi-transparent bodysuit soars out over the audience; as she swings back, her long hair grazes some of the rapt... More >>

• Lights Up! Alvin Ailey’s Gang Turns 50

  published December 10, 2008

  Here’s my daydream. I’m walking along 8th Street and meet the ghost of Alvin Ailey. He looks gorgeous—just... More >>

• Misnomer and LeeSaar Plumb the Body’s Enigmas

  published December 10, 2008

  Misnomer Dance Theater has recently received more money in grants than any six-member, left-of-center dance group I can think of.... More >>

• Benjamin Millepied Takes A Very Big Leap Forward

  published December 10, 2008

  There’s a chandelier in Benjamin Millepied’s 28 Variations on a Theme by Paganini. But it’s not your usual... More >>

• Kyle Abraham, Layard Thompson, and the Limón Company Explore Their Histories

  published December 3, 2008

  José Limón was born in 1908, and what's remarkable about this centennial is that, although he died in 1972, his company and his... More >>

• Veteran Choreographers Bebe Miller and Risa Jaroslow Write Mysteries in Motion

  published November 19, 2008

  Bebe Miller has been making mysterious dances since the mid 1980s. Their beauty is soul-deep. It resides in dancers' bones, muscles, and... More >>

• Faye Driscoll’s California Sideshow

  published November 19, 2008

  Maybe it was a lengthy sojourn in her native California that prompted Faye Driscoll to re-examine her childhood and the environment... More >>

• Clive Barnes, 1927–2008

  published November 19, 2008

  I first met Clive Barnes (in print, that is) when a friend gave me a stack of issues of the British magazine Dance and... More >>

• Strange Swans and Coyote Graveyards from Édouard Lock and Kimberly Bartosik

  published November 12, 2008

  I remember the early choreographer of Montreal-based Édouard Lock with some fondness. Basically his dancers threw one another... More >>

• Welcome to the American Ballet Theatre's Bright Season

  published November 5, 2008

  Antony Tudor knew much about love—how it can set your feet quivering, tip you off balance—and how unfulfilled longing can corset... More >>

• Garth Fagan and Lar Lubovitch Celebrate Decades of Dancemaking

  published November 5, 2008

  A tall, slim man walks onto the stage and swings one leg into the air. He holds that balance for an astonishingly long time, erupts... More >>

• Trajal Harrell and Luciana Achugar Mess With Our Minds and Vision

  published October 29, 2008

  Which is more interesting: counting wallpaper roses or watching people fold clothes? That I’m even considering the question while taking... More >>

• Steve Reich and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Get Phased

  published October 29, 2008

  Both Steve Reich’s compositions and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s dances for her company, Rosas, lay out mathematical and... More >>

• The Treats of the San Francisco Ballet

  published October 22, 2008

  You can read about the up-and-down history of America's oldest ballet company in Janice Ross's excellent San Francisco Ballet at... More >>

• OtherShore and Jo Strømgren Kompani—Two Kinds of Daring

  published October 22, 2008

  Brandi Norton and Sonja Kostich, the founders of the just-launched dance group OtherShore, are a good advertisement for stylistic diversity.... More >>

• Seeing Ghosts With Jody Sperling/Time Lapse Dance

  published October 15, 2008

  Jody Sperling has been studying Loie Fuller for some time—re-imagining the solos of this fin-de-siècle American dancer and devising... More >>

• Bill T. Jones Adapts a Poetic Puppet Play; Christopher Wheeldon Deploys Some Jazz Age Harlequins

  published October 8, 2008

  Bill T. Jones is full of surprises. Who'd imagine he'd turn Jane Bowles's eccentrically poetic 1945 puppet play, A Quarreling Pair, into a... More >>

• Dancing to Wally Cardona and Rahel Vonmoos’s A Light Conversation

  published October 8, 2008

  When the applause died down after Wally Cardona and Rahel Vonmoos’s collaborative duet, A Light Conversation, a colleague turned to... More >>

• Jane Comfort and Lloyd Newson Tell It Straight (or Not)

  published October 1, 2008

  Listening to evaluations about the current candidates for the highest office in the United States is downright alarming. So often the focus is... More >>

• What Price Art? Cheap at City Center's Annual Festival!

  published September 23, 2008

  Here's what you can get for $60 besides a medium-fancy dinner for two or a saucy haircut: six performances featuring 28 dance companies from... More >>

• The American Dance Guild Honors Murray Louis

  published September 17, 2008

  In his heyday as a performer in Alwin Nikolais’ company and later with his own group, Murray Louis truly sang the “body electric,"... More >>

• Clinging to Life in Kate Weare's Bridge of Sighs

  published September 3, 2008

  Note to self: Try not to miss any performances by Kate Weare's group. Enter in calendar: The Light Has Not the Arms to Carry Us... More >>

• Sleeping Giant Rises, Puzzles

  published August 27, 2008

  The spectators leave MASS MoCA’s Hunter Center theater slowly, gathering in knots to parse what they’ve just seen: Sleeping... More >>