Email Author Tobi Tobias

2005 Stories by Tobi Tobias

• Most of the Royal's Classical-Dance Trainees Remain in a School Daze

  published March 8, 2005

  Think of the senior students of England's Royal Ballet School—seen here in an exchange with the American Ballet Theatre Studio... More >>

• Elisa Monte Processes Life's Disasters, Intimate or Global in Scale

  published February 15, 2005

  Elisa Monte began to create her now program-length Via Sacra (Sacred Road) as an exploration of personal loss and the eventual emergence... More >>

• Dance

  published February 15, 2005

  Impelled by her unabashedly maverick imagination, Cathy Weis melds dance, video, and the fact that she has multiple sclerosis into haunting... More >>

• Six Frantic Characters in Search of an Auteur Comb the Piney Woods

  published February 1, 2005

  I guess RoseAnne Spradlin has death on her mind. She's set her new Future Past in a forest of tall, drooping Christmas trees that look like... More >>

• New Japanese Dance: Technically Dazzling, and Not Immune to Western Ways

  published January 18, 2005

  The 2005 installment of Japan Society's annual showcase testifies to a wealth of imagination, theatrical smarts, and technical prowess on the... More >>

• Astute Improvisers Run Aground When They Grapple With Dance Theory

  published January 11, 2005

  A four-person collaborative, De Facto Dance specializes in improvisational work within a generous range of strict structures. Annexing other... More >>

• Choreographers Take Us out on Location for Brainy, Sexy Thrills

  published January 4, 2005

  A shared program by Andy Russ and Lionel Popkin offered excursions to the studio and the kitchen (with adjoining bedroom). Russ, a cerebral kind... More >>

• Dance

  published January 4, 2005

  Yanira Castro has set Beacon in a derelict space cagily transformed by minimalist chic. She distributes her audience among four tiny... More >>