Email Author Deborah Jowitt

2010 Stories by Deborah Jowitt

• Soledad Barrio and Noche Flamenca Dance Into the Dark Heart

  published December 22, 2010

  Whether flamenco, the dance and music of Andalucian gypsies, is rooted in traditions that nomadic tribes bore across Europe to Spain or in ones... More >>

• Aszure Barton and Her Troupe Sniff Out the Wild Essences of Life and Performance

  published December 22, 2010

  I’m not surprised that Canadian choreographer Aszure Barton’s new work, Busk, scheduled for two performances at the Baryshnikov... More >>

• John Kelly Channels Painter Egon Schiele As He Breathes, Ducks, and Dies Through Art

  published December 15, 2010

  I doubt that Egon Schiele, the Viennese Expressionist painter, could dance—beyond, perhaps, a clumsy waltz. Nor was he much of a singer. At... More >>

• Ballet Hispanico Shows Its Glam Chops

  published December 8, 2010

  In the 1960s, I noted a surge of hybrid dance works that I thought of as "balletomodern"; their choreographers joined the heft and drama of... More >>

• Alvin Ailey's Revelations Turns 50: Move, Members, Move!

  published December 8, 2010

  “Rocka my soul in the bosom of Abraham!” Sweet Honey in the Rock throws the words up like a tidal wave from the City Center pit, while... More >>

• Jonah Bokaer Charts a Voyage, Ancestors Aboard

  published December 1, 2010

  In a recent interview for culturebot.net, the choreographer Jonah Bokaer generously acknowledged the many artists whose ideas have influenced him.... More >>

• Garth Fagan and His Veteran Dance Troupe Celebrate Four Decades

  published November 17, 2010

  It's hard to believe that a scrappy ensemble named Bottom of the Bucket, But . . . Dance Theatre could thrive in Rochester, New York, and grow... More >>

• Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui Builds Martial Calm; Sasha Waltz Takes a Society Apart

  published November 10, 2010

  The Belgian Moroccan choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui has an unusually questing mind. He has, for instance, drawn inspiration for... More >>

• Neil Greenberg Dares Your Interpretation; Molissa Fenley Dances With Art

  published November 10, 2010

  Neil Greenberg has a way of tangoing with meaning; he pulls it close, stares at it, and spins it away—never quite losing... More >>

• Cedar Lake Contemporary Dance Causes a Hubbub at the Joyce

  published November 3, 2010

  Benoit-Swan Pouffer, the artistic director of Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, keeps his eyes on the European dance scene—acquiring and... More >>

• Tennessee Williams Gets Taken to the Dance

  published November 3, 2010

  In Tennessee Williams’s 1944 play The Glass Menagerie, the characters’ dreams intersect and collide—shattering... More >>

• Ivy Baldwin, DD Dorvillier, and Alain Buffard Explore the Art World, Technology, and the Exposed Body

  published October 27, 2010

  If you didn’t happen to see a press release (or dance-world tweets) before taking in Ivy Baldwin’s fabulously enigmatic... More >>

• Ralph Lemon Tries to Dance a 'No-Dance' in How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere?

  published October 20, 2010

  The title of Ralph Lemon's How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere? poses a question that can only be answered by... More >>

• Hilary Easton and Amanda Loulaki Delve Into Couples

  published October 20, 2010

  “I need some space.” How often have we heard-read-said those words? Space as in a room of one’s own, space in a crowded brain so... More >>

• Carolyn Carlson—From France to Jersey; Russell Dumas—Up From Oz

  published October 13, 2010

  Alwin Nikolais’s spectacles of light, sound, and motion bowled over Parisians when his company paid its first visit to France... More >>

• Pina Bausch's Moon Rivers

  published October 6, 2010

  If I speak of a full moon, you'll understand me to mean a phase of our ancient satellite, along with its poetic, romantic, and vampirish... More >>

• The Choreography Carnival -- Soloists and Companies Entice You to Fall for Dance

  published October 6, 2010

  I have no doubt that City Center’s annual Fall for Dance Festival—with its enticing ticket prices (all seats $10) and... More >>

• Japanese Troupe Sankai Juku Voyages Slowly Toward the Ineffable

  published October 6, 2010

  When Sankai Juku first appeared in New York in 1984, few dancegoers here were familiar with Japanese butoh, the radical form... More >>

• Dance New Amsterdam, Facing Eviction, Hosts an Africa-Themed Duet

  published September 22, 2010

  Souleymane Badolo and Nora Chipaumire titled their collaborative piece Art/Family/Our Lives: I Ka Nye (You Look Well), and they do... More >>

• Raimund Hoghe, Faustin Linyekula, and the New York City Ballet Help Open the Season

  published September 22, 2010

  How do you see motion in stillness? Raimund Hoghe, the German writer turned performer-choreographer, would like, I think, to... More >>

• In Memoriam: Jill Johnston (1929-2010)

  published September 22, 2010

  Jill Johnston died on September 18, following a stroke nine days earlier. The shock waves are reverberating. Perhaps we thought she was... More >>

• Ohad Naharin and Yasmeen Godder Bring Us Order and Chaos From Israel

  published September 22, 2010

  One word that might be used to describe Ohad Naharin’s choreography and the members of Batsheva Dance Company who perform it is... More >>

• Noémie Lafrance’s Melt Ends the Summer, DanceNow Heralds the Fall

  published September 15, 2010

  It’s become a ritual for many dance lovers. Labor Day has come and gone; you’ve arrived back in the city from summer jobs... More >>

• Andrea Miller's Wonderland Bursts Through at the Joyce

  published August 18, 2010

  At several moments in Andrea Miller's terrifying new Wonderland, you almost expect the 12 members of her Gallim Dance to raise their... More >>

• The Beauty and Limits of the Dance World's Ongoing Love of Virtuosity

  published August 11, 2010

  Help! YouTube is awash in pirouettes! Is virtuosity the new porn? Google your favorite ballet stars, and you'll find assorted bravura... More >>