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2010 Stories by Deborah Jowitt

• Kate Weare and Monica Bill Barnes Gently Expose the Human Comedy

  published August 11, 2010

  Attending the second program in the Joyce Theater’s presentation of four women choreographers, you ready yourself for... More >>

• Yin Mei and Kyle Abraham Chart Life in Black and White, Plus Rainbow Colors

  published August 11, 2010

  A woman backs slowly into a strip of light lying along the floor of the Doris Duke Theater at Jacob’s Pillow. She holds one end of what... More >>

• Art Spiegelman Joins the Dance

  published July 20, 2010

  Jonathan Wolken, one of the four creative Dartmouth College jocks who founded Pilobolus in 1971, was still—with Robby Barnett (another... More >>

• Pichet Klunchun and Shantala Shivalingappa Embrace Their Traditions With Open Eyes

  published July 13, 2010

  Back in June, Emmanuelle Phuon’s Khmeropédies I and II honored the classical dance of Cambodia, while exploring... More >>

• Emmanuele Phuon Brings Khmeropedies I & II to Baryshnikov Arts Center

  published July 6, 2010

  For centuries, Cambodian court dancers by the hundreds lived as the king's private all-female dance troupe—the little, pretty ones... More >>

• A New York Ballet Company Tackles Architecture, One From Georgia Remodels Itself

  published June 29, 2010

  The architect Santiago Calatrava appears to be a remarkably agreeable fellow. Interviewed in the short film that precedes every NYCB... More >>

• Martha Graham Dance Company Teams Up With Charles L. Mee and Anne Bogart

  published June 22, 2010

  What's an orphaned dance company to do? Keep mother's silver polished and on display? Add modern conveniences that won't clash with the... More >>

• John Jasperse and Nicholas Leichter View Artifice Through Different Lenses

  published June 22, 2010

  Theater has always trafficked in illusion. The flesh-and-blood performers may be within touching distance, but reality has been leeched out of... More >>

• New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, and Alvin Ailey Dancers Defy Being Pinned Down

  published June 15, 2010

  How do you like your ballerinas? Whole or disjointed? Plain fried or all sauced up? Whichever turns choreographer Mauro Bigonzetti on this... More >>

• Donna Uchizono and Christopher Williams Traffic in Mysteries, Unveiled and Veiled

  published June 8, 2010

  Proximity and distance, intimacy and formality face off in Donna Uchizono’s new longing two and—furtively,... More >>

• American Ballet Theatre Mounts John Neumeier's Lady of the Camellias

  published June 1, 2010

  Balanchine said ballet can't show sisters-in-law. He probably didn't feel it necessary to note how hard it'd be to show a bourgeois gentleman,... More >>

• Eiko & Koma, TAKE Dance, and the Modes of Japanese Choreography

  published June 1, 2010

  It’s startling to realize that I first saw Eiko and Koma perform in 1976. They came out of nowhere, as far as I was concerned, and very... More >>

• Mikhail Baryshnikov, David Neumann, and Steve Paxton Voyage Together With Different Compasses

  published May 25, 2010

  Reviewing Merce Cunningham’s 1945 solo concert, the critic Edwin Denby expanded on the form itself: “A man alone can suggest he is... More >>

• A Look Back at the Work of Alwin Nikolais

  published May 18, 2010

  Picture this: Human arms appear over the top of a slanting mirror wall about four feet high; as they stretch up, they acquire reflections... More >>

• New York City Ballet Dancers Take to the Streets—on Film

  published May 18, 2010

  Put some professional dancers in a field or in an alley and film them in action. Depending on the choreography, there’s often a disturbing... More >>

• Dana Reitz, Jennifer Tipton, and Sara Rudner Light Up a World; Douglas Dunn Hosts a Curious Salon

  published May 11, 2010

  In the early 1990s, Dana Reitz, Sara Rudner, and lighting designer Jennifer Tipton created a piece they called Necessary Weather. Reitz... More >>

• The Master of Collapse: Stephen Petronio

  published May 4, 2010

  Once dances slip from a company's repertory, they become ghosts—flitting through the memories of those who saw them and those who... More >>

• Two New Ballets at NYCB Glance Backward With Trick Glasses

  published May 4, 2010

  The New York City Ballet hasn’t collaborated extensively with an architect since the 1981 Tchaikovsky Festival, when Philip... More >>

• Anna Sokolow and Luciana Achugar: Two definitions of Intensity, Generations Apart

  published April 27, 2010

  During Anna Sokolow’s lifetime, she apparently gave out a number of possible birthdates—all of them slightly later than the one on... More >>

• The Wall Walker: Forty Years of Challenges From Trisha Brown

  published April 20, 2010

  Trisha Brown has always been intrigued by how we see. A founding member of the radical Judson Dance Theater, she began in the late 1960s to... More >>

• Zvi Gotheiner Gets Tweeted

  published April 13, 2010

  If u cn rd this, you may be crossing the street against the traffic staring at your iPhone screen. And should you get knocked down, bystanders... More >>

• Faye Driscoll Is Mad at You and You and You

  published April 6, 2010

  The title of Faye Driscoll’s latest work, There is so much mad in me, holds the mirror up to a nature many people would rather not... More >>

• On Broadway, Twyla Tharp Gets A Kick Out of Sinatra

  published March 30, 2010

  In 1982, Twyla Tharp choreographed Nine Sinatra Songs. To recordings by "Old Blue Eyes," pair after pair of her unforgettable company... More >>

• Bridgman/Packer Dance Split Themselves in Three; Elaine Summers Looks Back, Intermedia-Style

  published March 30, 2010

  A man’s feet suddenly point 180 degrees away from the direction he’s facing. Both this man and a woman standing a short distance... More >>

• Larry Keigwin Makes Designs For City Living

  published March 24, 2010

  I don't know where Larry Keigwin grew up, but he choreographs like a New Yorker. I'm not just talking about his showbiz talents and... More >>