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Me, Myself and Me
Company: Urban Outcast Dance Company Choreographer: Herschel Jackson Jr. Performers: Justin Dubell, Herschel Jackson Jr., Paola Ramirez The costumes here are clearly the star of the show. When the lights came up, the costumes made for an immediate WOW factor....
Triflection
Company: Jeremiah Jenkins Choreographer: Jeremiah Jenkins Performer: Candy Jimenez We're all familiar with the angst-ridden dance piece. It gives weight and emotional depth to a performance and seems to be the go-to if you're trying to develop a powerful solo. If...
Dos Arias
Choreographer: Laurie Eisenhower Performers: Emily Laird, Quinn Mihalovic Anytime you have a young, attractive couple dance a duet to the strains of Ave Maria you are in immediate danger of succumbing to the saccharin. Not that sweet is bad, but to its credit, this...
I was gonna wait to tell you this but
Choreographer: Kristopher K. Q. Pourzal Performer: Kristopher K. Q. Pourzal The soloist, Pourzal, announced his arrival with several "Hello's" and entered the stage overloaded with miscellaneous props. We were immediately clued that this dance piece was going to...
Future Becomes Past
Choreographer: Janessa Clark Performers: Courtney Drasner Reviewing a dance film is complicated. Because there's the dance performance, and then there's the film, and then there's the dance film. Any meaningful analysis has to address all three. You could write a...
Primordial Ordeals at the Portal in the Fiscal Year of 1990: A Bread Saga
Choreographer: Anthony James Kelly (AKELLZ) Performer: Anthony James Kelly As a reviewer, I simply could not find a way into this work to give my observations some meaningful context and make my comments constructive. I seem to be missing too many pieces and I...
Love is the work
Choreographer: Edson "BBoyHouse" Magana / collaborative work Performers: Edson "BBoyHouse" Magana, Lawrence "Reflekshin" Martinez, Leah "LThrilla" Roman, X-Savior Thomas, Nick "Kannon" Villareal You might think you know something about a person or group of people...
Thru
Choreographer: BOSS (Gina Jurek) Performer: BOSS The ominous rumble of the soundtrack set the tone for this piece. We knew it was going to be dark and come on hard. Only later would we realize that it was also going to be unrelenting. This piece was combative. An...
WORDGAME: A Cartoon (1968)
Choreographer: Daniel Nagrin Performer: Shane O'Hara I have to say, the relevance of this (somewhat) historical piece to the contemporary political scene, as advertised in the program, eludes me entirely. Perhaps those connections would emerge on subsequent...
Woman, do you fear?
Choreographer: Jenny Gerena in collaboration with Dancers Performers: Mac Allen, BOSS, Jenny Gerena, Sydney Jackson, Michelle Marji The soundtrack for this piece began as an electronic thrum. It provided a slightly ominous undercurrent as dancers scurried across the...
Frances Smith Cohen
Addio Choreographer: Frances Smith CohenDancer: Nicole Olson Not surprisingly, there could be no more fitting tribute to Frances Cohen than one she designed herself. Addio, a program she originally created to observe the passing of her husband, came full circle when...
The Return of Dracula
Center Dance EnsembleChoreographer: Frances Smith Cohen Everyone loves a good opening. Here, Fran Cohen has given us a great one. The lights come up on the stark, seemingly solo image of Dracula, dramatically lit in all his caped glory. The pulsating, bat-like motions...
The Fallen
Center Dance EnsembleChoreographer: Frances Smith Cohen I think this is a flawed program, to which I had an almost visceral negative reaction. I say that, knowing full well the rest of the audience appeared to love it, be moved by it, and would likely lavish praise...
She
Center Dance EnsembleChoreographer: Diane McNeal Hunt "SHE" looked upon the wolves, who were dwindling in number, and back at the humans, who no longer cared for their own.....SHE combined their spirits. Fate whispered to her, “You cannot withstand the storm” and SHE...
Blythe Spirit
Center Dance EnsembleChoreographer: Frances Smith Cohen Of the two minor works presented by Fran Cohen, The Fallen and Blythe Spirit, Blythe Spirit is, in my opinion, the stronger piece, if for no other reason than it was coherent throughout and truly, satisfyingly,...
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