“Infused with jazz dance movement a la Gene Kelly, Shimotakahara’s choreography sat well on the dancers and who transmitted a feel-good vibe to the audience that they soaked up eagerly.” Continue reading GroundWorks’ ‘Fall Concert Series’ Provided A Respite From Today’s Homogenized Contemporary Dance
The Benefit The Vern Riffe Center’s Jo Ann Davidson Theatre Columbus, Ohio May 21, 2017 Reviewed by Steve Sucato When it comes to all-star dance benefits, few outside the nation’s major metropolises pack in as much talent and great dancing as Columbus, Ohio’s The Benefit. Curated by former BalletMet stars Jimmy Orrante and Attila Bongar, the annual event, now in its fourth year, benefits The … Continue reading 4th Annual ‘The Benefit’ Worth Every Cent and More
Cleveland Ballet – Les Sylphides Ohio Theatre at Playhouse Square Cleveland, Ohio October 14, 2017 Reviewed by Steve Sucato In their first mainstage performance since being named a resident company at Cleveland’s Playhouse Square center, Cleveland Ballet showed that the faith Playhouse Square put in the 3-year-old company and its potential wasn’t misplaced. The troupe of mostly young dancers acquitted themselves nicely in a varied … Continue reading Cleveland Ballet’s Mixed Repertory Program Yields Mixed Results
“Delivered in a series of clever vignettes, six a breast took the road less preachy in getting audience members to think about and relate to how women (perhaps more generationally) have been treated…” Continue reading CorningWorks’ ‘six a breast’ reveals how many women really feel
“Within this beautiful setting Liang choreographed a beauty of a pas de deux that contained a wellspring of fabulous lifts and carries to go with the character’s unbridled joy which Benz and Ward captured to perfection in their exquisite dancing of it.” Continue reading Benz a Consummate Juliet in BalletMet’s Superb ‘Romeo and Juliet’
Never straying far from each other’s touch, the dancers swirled around each other like milkweed seeds floating on a breeze. Continue reading Cuba’s Malpaso Dances Its Way Into Cleveland Audiences’ Hearts Again
The documentary ‘Restless Creature: Wendy Whelan’ takes us through her battle with a painful hip injury, her inner battles over her career and through her final performance with NYCB and the beginnings of a new chapter in her life. Continue reading Leaving Neverland – Film Review of ‘Restless Creature: Wendy Whelan’
“In her last performance with the company she founded, Meggitt captivated with her usual precision and determination. Pausing at times during the work to look back reflectively at the other dancers, one got the sense she was also wishing them farewell and thanking them for the years they spent together as a troupe. ” Continue reading Antaeus Dance Gifts Fans with One Last Gem in Joint Production with Travesty Dance Group
Reviewed by Steve Sucato For a long time, it’s been a common speculation that iconic novel “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” was the product of mind-altering drugs. The world premiere of Grand Rapids Ballet (GRB)’s production of “Alice in Wonderland” Friday night based on that tale by Lewis Carroll’s (the pseudonym for Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), feeds into that notion. The mind-blowing visual spectacle has the feel … Continue reading Curiouser and curiouser: Grand Rapids Ballet’s “Alice” overcomes early flaws to delight
With “Gleam,” Williams created a surreal, dreamlike world of memory where characters appeared only in close-up and around them, like our own distant recollections, lay darkness and the fuzzy edges of details all but forgotten. Continue reading Grand Rapids Ballet’s Innovative ‘MOVEMEDIA’ Series Delights Yet Again
