Category: Dance Reviews 2014

Dance Reviews 2014, The Buffalo News

Charlotte Ballet presents diverse, entertaining program at Chautauqua

By Steve Sucato News Contributing Reviewer The newly renamed Charlotte Ballet (formerly North Carolina Dance Theatre) in residence at the Chautauqua Institution on July 30, showed that whatever the company calls itself, artistic director Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux and dancers bring the same high level of dancing and dance works to every performance. In “Dance Innovations” in the Institution’s Amphitheater, the company along with A Far Cry … Continue reading Charlotte Ballet presents diverse, entertaining program at Chautauqua

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Dance Reviews 2014

Verb Ballets’ ‘DanceWorks’ Program Out of Character

Verb Ballets DanceWorks ’14 Gordon Square Theatre at Cleveland Public Theatre  Cleveland, OH May 1-3, 2014 Reviewed by Steve Sucato Cleveland-based Verb Ballets closed out Cleveland Public Theatre’s 2014 DanceWorks series with a program of two new works that harkened back to the modern dance style of its predecessor company the Repertory Project. Audiences used to Verb’s mix of classical modern dance works from Paul Taylor … Continue reading Verb Ballets’ ‘DanceWorks’ Program Out of Character

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Dance Reviews 2014

Grand Rapids Ballet’s Contemporary ‘Midsummer’ Ballet a Glowing Success

Grand Rapids Ballet Company A Midsummer Night’s Dream Peter Martin Wege Theatre Grand Rapids, MI May 9-18, 2014 Reviewed by Steve Sucato In keeping with Grand Rapids Ballet Company’s penchant for contemporary reinterpretations of story ballet classics that has included updated productions of Romeo & Juliet and Swan Lake, the world premiere of choreographer Olivier Wevers’ A Midsummer Night’s Dream May 9 at Grand Rapids’ Peter Martin … Continue reading Grand Rapids Ballet’s Contemporary ‘Midsummer’ Ballet a Glowing Success

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Dance Reviews 2014

Envy, Betrayal and Murder: Neos Dance Theatre’s New ‘Snow White’ Ballet Traveled a Dark Road to reach its Happily Ever After

Neos Dance Theatre Snow White and the Magic Mirror: A Grimm Tale  E.J. Thomas Hall at The University of Akron Akron, Ohio April 19, 2014 Reviewed by Steve Sucato As he did with Neos Dance Theatre’s 2013 production of Count…The Legend of Dracula, artistic director/choreographer Bobby Wesner turned to the original source for in coming up with the storyline for his new ballet Snow White and … Continue reading Envy, Betrayal and Murder: Neos Dance Theatre’s New ‘Snow White’ Ballet Traveled a Dark Road to reach its Happily Ever After

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Cleveland’s Inlet Dance Theatre opens CPT’s ‘DanceWorks’ series with mostly Entertaining Program

Inlet Dance Theatre Cleveland Public Theatre – Gordon Square Theatre Cleveland, OH April 10-12, 2014 By Steve Sucato Cleveland-based Inlet Dance Theatre opened Cleveland Public Theatre’s annual DanceWorks series April 10 at Gordon Square Theatre with a program of five diverse works by company founder and artistic director Bill Wade including three premieres. In its 13th season, Inlet has carved out a niche among Northeast, … Continue reading Cleveland’s Inlet Dance Theatre opens CPT’s ‘DanceWorks’ series with mostly Entertaining Program

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Dance Reviews 2014

Grand Rapids Ballet’s ‘MoveMedia’ a Gem

Grand Rapids Ballet Company – MoveMedia Program 1 Peter Martin Wege Theatre Grand Rapids, MI March 28-30, 2014 Reviewed by Steve Sucato It’s a unique experience for a dance writer to witness the blossoming of a dance troupe; to see its dancers and repertory evolve over time to higher levels of artistic excellence. That is what has unfolded at Grand Rapids Ballet Company since the … Continue reading Grand Rapids Ballet’s ‘MoveMedia’ a Gem

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BalletMet Columbus and Cincinnati Ballet Collaborate on Stellar Program

BalletMet Columbus & Cincinnati Ballet – Symphony in C Ohio Theatre – Columbus, Ohio March 22, 2014 Reviewed by Steve Sucato A historic collaboration between two of Ohio’s top ballet companies, BalletMet Columbus and Cincinnati Ballet in the program Symphony in C at Columbus’ Ohio Theatre was not only an audience-pleasing triumph, but was perhaps a harbinger of the quality programming fledgling artistic director Edwaard Liang … Continue reading BalletMet Columbus and Cincinnati Ballet Collaborate on Stellar Program

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New work by Rosie Hererra highlights GroundWorks DanceTheater’s richly satisfying Winter Series program

GroundWorks DanceTheater Breen Center for the Performing Arts Cleveland, Ohio February 28, 2014 Reviewed by Steve Sucato Winter may have had Northeast Ohio in its icy grip, but Miami-based choreographer Rosie Hererra’s world premiere work “House Broken” did its best to warm things up at Cleveland’s Breen Center for the Performing Arts with a laugh-out-loud dark comedy filled with sight gags and prop humor and … Continue reading New work by Rosie Hererra highlights GroundWorks DanceTheater’s richly satisfying Winter Series program

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Dance Reviews 2014

Parkinson-Themed Ballet Hopeful Despite Flaws

Bodiography Contemporary Ballet Company – Left Leg, Right Brain (The Frank Ferraro Story) Byham Theater Pittsburgh, PA February 21, 2014 By Steve Sucato Pittsburgh multimedia artist Frank Ferraro once said of living with Parkinson’s disease: “I imagine life not as a long road of misery, but the shortest distance to happiness.” In her ballet, Left Leg, Right Brain (The Frank Ferraro Story), director/choreographer Maria Caruso … Continue reading Parkinson-Themed Ballet Hopeful Despite Flaws

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Veteran Trio Cooks Up Satisfying Dance-Theater Program

CorningWorks – The Glue Factory Project: Recipes Our Mothers Gave Us (World Premiere) New Hazlett Theater – Pittsburgh, PA January 15-19, 2014 Reviewed by Steve Sucato The brainchild of dancer/choreographer Beth Corning, CorningWorks’ The Glue Factory Project series brings together veteran performers over the age of forty to create dance-theater works that explore the human condition. The latest in the series, Recipes Our Mothers Gave Us, brought … Continue reading Veteran Trio Cooks Up Satisfying Dance-Theater Program

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