Email Author Deborah Jowitt

2009 Stories by Deborah Jowitt

• The Decade's Best Dance

  published December 22, 2009

  Remember Y2K? Some people feared that computers worldwide would crash when confronted with the millennial change from 1999 to 2000. But the... More >>

• Reggie Wilson and Andréya Ouamba Team Up at BAM, Tamar Rogoff Offers a Diagnosis of a Faun

  published December 15, 2009

  Near the beginning of The Good Dance—Dakar/Brooklyn, Reggie Wilson of the Fist & Heel Performance Group gives us a... More >>

• Alvin Ailey Dancers Honor Judith Jamison, Their Queen for 20 years

  published December 8, 2009

  Every time I see Alvin Ailey’s beloved Revelations, and the music for “Wade in the Water” begins, I remember... More >>

• Ballet Hispanico’s New Choreographic Talent, Juilliard’s Future Stars

  published December 8, 2009

  Next year, Ballet Hispanico will celebrate its 40th anniversary. Under the direction of Tina Ramirez, the company grew... More >>

• Bill T. Jones' Great Divide

  published November 17, 2009

  Words and images from Bill T. Jones's Serenade/The Proposition flicker through my mind the way leaves swirl down from a wind-shaken... More >>

• Christopher Wheeldon, Not Quite Top Chef

  published November 10, 2009

  "The mode of development of an organism or part" is how my dictionary defines "morphosis." So when Christopher Wheeldon used the plural of it... More >>

• A Farewell to Merce Cunningham; Disciple Karole Armitage’s Journey Into a World of Fusion

  published November 10, 2009

  The Park Avenue Armory occupies most of a New York City block. Its main hall measures 55,000 square feet, and the curve of its roof... More >>

• Morgan Thorson’s Minnesota White-Out at P.S.122

  published November 10, 2009

  Heaven, in Minneapolis choreographer Morgan Thorson’s piece of the same name, is a place that imperfect people labor to reach.... More >>

• David Gordon Reworks a Brecht Play to Prod at America Political Perils

  published November 10, 2009

  No matter how much dialogue David Gordon casts about in his productions, they’re usually still listed as upcoming attractions... More >>

• Tere O’Connor and Janis Brenner Celebrate the Life of Dancing

  published November 10, 2009

  Tere O’Connor doesn’t make dances about his life or anybody else’s life. Like the late Merce Cunningham, he makes... More >>

• The Forsythe Company's Bye-Bye to Frankfurt

  published October 20, 2009

  Decreation (2003) is the last piece that the profoundly influential choreographer William Forsythe created for Ballet Frankfurt, the... More >>

• ABT Offers Up New Ballets by Alexei Ratmansky, Aszure Barton, and Benjamin Millepied (Plus Bonus Jerome Robbins!)

  published October 13, 2009

  Watching the superb dancers of American Ballet Theatre maneuver their way through three new ballets on a stage intended for... More >>

• Crossing Boundaries (Or Not) in Works by Douglas Dunn’s and Margaret Jenkins’s Companies

  published October 13, 2009

  It’s entirely coincidental that Danspace Project has moved its curtain time from 8:30 P.M. to 8. But how appropriate that... More >>

• Dante Meets Guitars and a Black-Net Bodysuit for "Emio Greco | PC"

  published October 6, 2009

  Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten, the founders of the International Choreographic Arts Centre Amsterdam, find no irony in generating a... More >>

• Fall for Dance and Raimund Hoghe Ramp Up the New Season

  published September 29, 2009

  New Yorkers in love with dancing flock to the annual Fall for Dance Festival, now in its sixth year, sometimes standing in line for hours to... More >>

• Big Dance Theatre Goes to the Movies; Maria Hassabi Cuts a Rug

  published September 29, 2009

  Big Dance Theater’s productions sometimes mingle several unlikely texts, with bewitching results. Plan-B (2004) mixed... More >>

• Juliette Binoche Loves You. No, Wait—She Doesn't.

  published September 22, 2009

  "When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall," wondered T.S. Eliot's J. Alfred Prufrock, "Then how should I begin/To spit out all the butt-ends... More >>

• Lucy Guerin Sends Signals. Dancer! Do You Copy?

  published September 22, 2009

  Dancers learn movement by copying someone who's demonstrating it. They follow verbal directions about how to perform it. They're not the only... More >>

• Miguel Gutierrez Goes to the Movies; Bill Young and Colleen Thomas Build a Crazy Quilt

  published September 15, 2009

  If you’ve ever taken a long road trip—toured with a dance company maybe—you know how memories of the landscape blur... More >>

• Mark Morris Matches Wits with Beethoven and Ives

  published August 25, 2009

  I can only imagine what it must be like to dance to the playing of Emanuel Ax and Yo-Yo Ma. The spirit manifestation in Mark Morris's beautiful... More >>

• Style Omnivores! Jacob’s Pillow Hosts the Pacific Northwest Ballet

  published August 25, 2009

  Of course, I’d like to see the Pacific Northwest Ballet in its hometown of Seattle—to become familiar with all 48 dancers... More >>

• Remembering Merce Cunningham (1919–2009)

  published August 4, 2009

  In 1944, the New York Herald Tribune's dance critic Edwin Denby reviewed the first solo performance by a young man he'd admired in Martha... More >>

• No Gaze for You!

  published July 28, 2009

  I'm lying on a clear plastic inflatable mattress, staring up at a mirrored ceiling; there are 24 of us, lying in rows of four. We have... More >>

• Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui Tries Getting In Our Heads with Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet

  published July 22, 2009

  One of the summer pleasures offered by the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival is the chance to see companies that have not yet performed in New... More >>

• Merce Cunningham, 1919-2009

  published July 22, 2009

  Merce Cunningham, who died on Sunday evening, July 26, remained a master of timing up to the very end. That afternoon, his company... More >>