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2004 Stories by Elizabeth Zimmer

• Dance

  published July 27, 2004

  Adriana Castaños directs the Mexican contemporary dance troupe La Lágrima, making its New York debut in this season's Latino... More >>

• Tango Twice Removed

  published July 27, 2004

  Tango, which originated among slave populations in Argentinean slums in the 1860s and was often danced by male couples, migrated across... More >>

• Dance

  published July 6, 2004

  Late last month, Mark Russell removed the last souvenirs from his cramped office at P.S.122; the board of directors there is replacing him with... More >>

• Dance

  published June 22, 2004

  "Dancing is the drug that really gets you high," say various subjects in this stimulating Australian film, completed last year, that occupies... More >>

• Film

  published June 15, 2004

  Ghostlight inhabits territory all its own: Call it "schlock doc." Christopher Herrmann, a former associate of the Martha Graham Dance... More >>

• East Village Artists Create Global Neighborhood Warming

  published May 18, 2004

  They're gentrifying the East Village, and the fancy lounges have established beachheads all the way to Avenue D, but the neighborhood's essential... More >>

• Opera in the Air in a DUMBO Basement

  published May 4, 2004

  In a dungeon-like barroom under a DUMBO restaurant, a plucky troupe of circus performers, augmented by five fine young opera singers, brings life... More >>

• Dance

  published May 4, 2004

  'AMERICAN LIVING ROOM 2004' July 22-September 2, HERE Arts... More >>

• Homer Avila 1955–2004

  published April 27, 2004

  "The best possible preparation for being an amputee," Homer Avila told me recently, "is being a dancer." Twenty-five years into his dance career,... More >>

• Moving Words

  published April 6, 2004

  As New York City Ballet revs up for its spring season at the New York State Theater (April 27 through June 27), we get word that the Saratoga... More >>

• Dance

  published March 23, 2004

  A Russian visitor recently noted a tendency among downtowners to "choreograph the rhythm, not the melody." He's right; it's an epidemic, infecting... More >>

• Dance

  published March 16, 2004

  Katherine Profeta takes Elevator Repair Service's eloquently understated tactics deeper into dance with 131, which at 45 minutes lasts just... More >>

• Rent-Poor Choreographer Proposes

  published March 9, 2004

  A cry from the heart of Williamsburg artist Christopher Caines. Nice place you have here. I'm proud of it, did much of the work... More >>

• Vive la Danse

  published February 24, 2004

  Dances by three Francophone artists stud the spring season, varying in temperament from heavy to light, in venues ranging from the baroque Howard... More >>

• Dance

  published February 10, 2004

  Brenda Dixon Gottschild's The Black Dancing Body: A Geography From Coon to Cool (Palgrave Macmillan, 332 pp., $29.29) is a curious... More >>

• Sexual healing: The rise and fall and rise of women's libido

  published February 3, 2004

  Warm up for Valentine's Day! You know you've been seeking an excuse to visit the Museum of Sex, and here's one that will improve your mind while... More >>

• Dance

  published January 27, 2004

  New York's only resident classical Indian Odissi company, this ensemble of eight women—two of them African American, the rest of South Asian... More >>

• Ongoing

  published January 20, 2004

  Downtown dance is a kind of confidence game: The artists have confidence, and the audience is game. Miguel Gutierrez's new dAMNATION rOAD... More >>

• Dance

  published January 13, 2004

  Wonder what became of Douglas Wright, a star Paul Taylor dancer in the '80s? One day, at the peak of his work with Taylor, he lay down on the... More >>

• Post-War Puppets

  published January 6, 2004

  "This is what I should have been doing all along," says Dan Hurlin about Hiroshima Maiden, the first of his theater pieces in which he does... More >>

• Solos With Co-Pilots

  published January 6, 2004

  Dance is an intensely social, labor-intensive art form, except when you're a choreographer generating movement for yourself. Two's a crowd when it... More >>

• Dance

  published January 6, 2004

  Since their beginnings in September 1999 at Williamsburg's Galapagos, Terry Dean Bartlett's dance shows, curated in partnership first with Lisa... More >>