Rachel’s blog @ View Rachel @ Juilliard Dance | Published: April 10, 2014 Category: reviewBy Rachel Straus NEW YORK-It’s a safe assumption that Nacho Duato’s Depak lne, which premiered March 20 with the Martha Graham Dance Company, takes its title from Depakine, a drug used to treat bipolar disorder and seizures. In the ballet’s second act, Graham dancer PeiJu Chien-Pott shuddered on the New York City Center stage with a […] Published: December 6, 2013 Category: reviewBy Rachel Straus Nacho Duato MADRID–Three years ago, former Paris Opera Ballet principal dancer José Carlos Martinez took over the decidedly un-balletic national dance company of Spain (the Compañía Nacional de Danza). Back then, the Madrid-based troupe’s identity was synonymous with the works of Nacho Duato [pictured], whose two-decade leadership and ballet-meets-modern, folk-inflected choreography gave the […] Published: April 11, 2003 Category: reviewBy Rachel Straus Western Europe and the Midwest now have more in common, thanks to Jim Vincent, the new artistic director of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, which performed Saturday at Purchase College’s Performing Arts Center. Since taking the helm of the 25-year-old company in 2000, American-born Vincent – who speaks four languages, got his dancing stripes with […] |
