Email Author Eva Yaa Asantewaa

2003 Stories by Eva Yaa Asantewaa

• A Dark Exploration Brings the House Down in a DUMBO Loft

  published December 16, 2003

  The space—raw, industrial. The performer—an impassive demon in clunky red shoes and a little dress. In mech[a], based on a Noh... More >>

• Sex From Seville, and the Same Old Same Old From Brooklyn

  published October 28, 2003

  You missed "¡Viva El Flamenco!" uptown at Hunter College? My sympathies. You missed arguably the realest, baddest, sexiest man in dance... More >>

• Dance

  published October 21, 2003

  Italian Troupes Offer Extreme Stagecraft and Bewilderment Compagnia... More >>

• A City Unmasked

  published October 21, 2003

  Witches celebrate the holiday of Samhain—Halloween's ancient European forerunner, a rural New Year's festival—as a portal to the shadowy... More >>

• The Blessed and the Mad Share Awards and Choreography

  published October 14, 2003

  Philosopher Maxine Greene's lifelong passion for the arts, education, and social activism was celebrated at her foundation's 2003 awards ceremony,... More >>

• Body Beat

  published September 9, 2003

  Move into autumn with new clarity and resolve. Get your body in gear! DANCE A RAMA Creative Center, 147 West 26th Street,... More >>

• Fringe Elements Blend Styles, Strengths, and Sensibilities

  published August 26, 2003

  Don't ask why they called it "They Ask Me Why." Refractions Dance Collective batched several works together, including brand new ones by... More >>

• Fringe Dancers Pour Their Hearts Into International Styles

  published August 19, 2003

  No A/C, a broken mic, an audience of 10 sweating and fanning. Yet the New York Performing Arts Company soldiered on. What an ironically generic... More >>

• Happy Birthday

  published August 5, 2003

  How has ballet choreographer Christopher Caines found time for his many passions—acting, directing, composing, designing, drumming? Watching... More >>

• Monstah And Monster

  published July 15, 2003

  Soho's HERE and temporarily homeless Dixon Place—two struggling institutions that champion diversity and the raw process of... More >>

• Other Voices

  published June 10, 2003

  Jen Abrams launched a career in acting at age five, later taking up contact improvisation at its birthplace, Oberlin College. Diving into New... More >>

• Acrobats of Goddess

  published May 13, 2003

  While similarly devoted to circus skills and thrills, LAVA isn't deliciously frightening like STREB, just delicious. The new High Tide... More >>

• Healing Science

  published April 15, 2003

  The secret of dreaming was sent into the world with the spirit of Barramundi," said physicist Fred Alan Wolf, relating an Aboriginal tale to a... More >>

• Full Tilt

  published April 1, 2003

  "Sideways," a program of two works by Eliza Miller Dance Company at Danspace Project (March 20 through 23), offered a feast for eyes and ears.... More >>

• Early Warnings of Chances to Learn

  published March 11, 2003

  As Martha Graham would say, the body never lies. But what if you can’t hear it for all the noise and static in your typical day?... More >>

• Everyone Benefits

  published March 4, 2003

  Dance well and do good! Curator Marya Wethers's "Food for Thought" show, "Divercity" (Danspace Project, February), solicited food donations for an... More >>

• Razzle-Dazzle 'Em!

  published February 18, 2003

  What fun it must be to claim performers as resourceful and giving as Zvi Gotheiner's troupe. Fun, too, to be part of ZviDance and make a huge,... More >>

• How She Rose

  published February 4, 2003

  I remember how she rose with nothing on but water . . . —Mark Irwin, "Domnica" each tide an argosy of... More >>

• For Adults Only

  published January 7, 2003

  Beloved, gaze in thine own heart," Yeats advised. "The holy tree is growing there." Yet many seekers of spiritual growth seem—as another... More >>