By Rachel Straus Pam Tanowitz is an ideal example of why we opted to call this column, which this month celebrates its seventh consecutive year, “New” Artist of the Month rather than “Young” Artist of the Month. We at MusicalAmerica.com believe in equal opportunity. Let’s hear it for late bloomers with unconventional career paths. Unlike […]
    | Published: April 23, 2015 Category: reviewBy Rachel Straus NEW YORK -- The Stephen Petronio Company celebrated its 30th-anniversary season April 7-12 at the Joyce Theater. The Newark-born choreographer’s most salient works draw as much from club and fashion culture as from concert dance, but as viewed on April 12, his program took a backward glance as well, with Merce […] Published: February 27, 2015 Category: reviewBy Rachel Straus NEW YORK The Martha Graham Dance Company’s two-week season at The Joyce Theater (Feb. 1022) resembled not so much a dance company with a core set of aesthetic values, but a house divided. On the bottom floor was the imposing modernist Martha Graham (18941991) and her masterworks, performed with varying degrees of […] Published: December 16, 2004 Category: reviewBy Rachel Straus Under a glowing sculpture, two arms shoot into space. A synthesized sound pulses as a dancer’s chest unfolds skyward. A woman’s long legs make quick flickering spirals. What transpires is visually stunning and necessarily experimental: the performing dancers are hearing the music for the first time. This is a tradition of the Merce Cunningham […] |
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