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2005 Stories by Tobi Tobias

• Brazilian Dancers Hold Forth in Take-No-Prisoners Style

  published November 22, 2005

  Cisne Negro, from Sao Paulo (the name means black swan in Portuguese), seizes a viewer's attention with its high-octane athleticism. Repose... More >>

• Dancers Can't Rescue Choreography Not Ready for the Big Time

  published November 15, 2005

  Adrienne Celeste Fadjo, who opened her concert with the solo Enough, is a lovely, long-limbed young woman of the blonde persuasion. She... More >>

• Paired Choreographers Display Individual Orientations to a Heritage

  published November 8, 2005

  Two New York choreographers whose work is profoundly connected to southeast and eastern Asia paired up for a concert of striking contrasts. Paz... More >>

• Ongoing

  published November 8, 2005

  This year's production of the Big Apple Circus—a one-ring affair free from lions and tigers—is loosely strung together by Grandma, a... More >>

• Restriction Plagues a One-Choreographer, One-Composer Format

  published October 25, 2005

  Christopher Wheeldon, widely considered classical ballet's most gifted choreographer, has consistently extended himself beyond his home base, the... More >>

• Intelligent Design: Eliot Feld Responds to a Steve Reich Score

  published October 11, 2005

  In the foreground, the Juilliard Percussion Ensemble, ready to grapple with Steve Reich's 1971 ecstatic steady-pulse Drumming. Dominating... More >>

• Upcoming

  published October 11, 2005

  Documentaries are often dull because they're formulaic: historical footage, intercut with contemporary talking heads explaining it all, in service... More >>

• Appealing Choreography Seeks Firmer Skeleton. Object: Impact

  published September 13, 2005

  Kim Whittam's "Lucky Four" program—a quartet of loosely related pieces that refers to the age of her project-based pickup group—offers... More >>

• Dance

  published September 13, 2005

  Glen Rumsey's ignored in my heaven is the dance component of Open Stitch, a project in which 15 cutting-edge designers have... More >>

• Two Takes on Primal Rage—One Global, One Personal

  published August 16, 2005

  Translated literally, the French entorse means "sprain"; used figuratively, it denotes "infringement." Both pieces given by La Compagnie de... More >>

• Ongoing

  published August 9, 2005

  The most engaging bunch of dancers you can imagine is here on an all too infrequent visit. Hubbard Street Dance Chicago is a 22-member crew of... More >>

• Contemporary Work Evokes the Rituals of First Americans in Unique Urban Space

  published July 19, 2005

  Tom Pearson created his site-specific Reel for the handsome rotunda of the U.S. Customs House, a beaux arts building that now houses a... More >>

• An Unfathomable Plot, Burdened With Magic Reality

  published July 12, 2005

  Mark Foehringer Dance Project/San Francisco features a slew of technically adept, personable dancers whom I'd love to see in something other than... More >>

• Dance

  published July 12, 2005

  Megawatt>Full Strength, Pilobolus's first stab at a one-long-dance program, keeps a heroic gang of six all charged up and strung out for 75... More >>

• Dance

  published June 28, 2005

  If you're interested in dancing or dress, you'll like this book. In The Lure of Perfection: Fashion and Ballet, 1780–1830 , Judith... More >>

• Love and Death

  published June 7, 2005

  "Happy families are all alike." Boris Eifman must have agreed with his fellow Russian Leo Tolstoy when he ransacked Anna Karenina for his... More >>

• Travesty Troupe Proves Boys Do Belong in Ballet—in Every Way

  published May 24, 2005

  As everyone knows, Les Ballets Grandiva is a bunch of gender-bending guys who make their living channeling no lesser choreographers than... More >>

• Dance

  published May 24, 2005

  Australia's Chunky Move has come to disturb and entertain our town with Tense Dave, a cheeky, vivid dance theater work concocted by Gideon... More >>

• Dance

  published May 17, 2005

  The Momix house program tells us that Lunar Sea, new to New York, was "conceived and directed"—notice, not "choreographed"—by... More >>

• From Exotic Climes, Half a Dozen Dancing Princesses. Collect 'Em All!

  published May 10, 2005

  Eerie, beautiful, and irresistibly entertaining, the Nrityagram Dance Ensemble practices Odissi, a lyrical, sensuous, and often ecstatic branch of... More >>

• Less-Is-More Choreography Yields Hints of Human Predicaments

  published April 26, 2005

  Pam Tanowitz's new Storage (many meanings lurk in that title) starts off simply. Her quintet of dancers, four women and a single man,... More >>

• Instead of Radical Dance, We Get the Diffuse and the Decorative

  published April 12, 2005

  Aprogram curated by pomo dance celebrity Sarah Michelson should have been more striking. Paige Martin's Consciousness-Related Effects in Random... More >>

• Dance

  published April 12, 2005

  You don't usually associate the New York City Ballet with sensations. But embarking on its spring season at the State Theater, it surely has one... More >>

• Veteran Choreographer Remains Most Striking as a Dancer

  published March 29, 2005

  Beth Soll began making dances a year after Valerie Anderson (1964-2004), to whom she dedicates her new Running/Mourning, was born. In this... More >>

• Eloquent Choreographer Gives the Expression 'Tough Love' New Meaning

  published March 22, 2005

  Fear, hostility, loneliness, frustration, despair, numb stoicism, and frenzied hysteria wrack the five women who people Shannon Hummel's new... More >>