H3, the latest work by choreographer and artistic director Bruno Beltrao, presented the audience with an amalgamation of hip hop and contemporary movement styles that defied singular categorization.

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Neglia Ballet Artists Flickinger Performing Arts Center at Nichols School Buffalo, NY May 9, 2009 Reviewed by Steve Sucato If you didn’t happen to be among those in attendance Saturday night in the Flickinger Performing Arts Center at Nichols School for Neglia Ballet Artists’ 10th Anniversary Gala production, you can begin kicking yourself now. Yes, it was that good. The production — jam-packed with ballet … Continue reading Neglia marks 10 years with best show of decade

Configuration Dance TheatreCenter for the Arts – University at Buffalo Buffalo, NYMay 3, 2009Reviewed by Steve Sucato In the final performance of their latest production, Configuration Dance Theatre showed, they have the goods to warrant continued national attention. They also showed they are still very much a young dance troupe struggling with the recent switch from being a pick-up company made up of mostly seasoned … Continue reading Sometimes less really is more

FragileDance Alloy TheaterThe New Hazlett TheaterPittsburgh, PennsylvaniaApril 13-16, 2007Reviewed by Steve Sucato Pittsburgh’s Dance Alloy Theater has presented a number of memorable dance works in its 31-year history. Perhaps none however has been more powerful and moving, as Donald Byrd’s “No Consolation,” which premiered in April as part of DAT’s riveting program Fragile. The first chapter in a multi-part national project concerning human stories cut … Continue reading Dance Magazine Review of Dance Alloy Theater's Fragile

Rachel Rish, Sara Lawrence & Hoang Ngoc Dang in Helen Keller: A Tribute to her Teacher. Photo: Dale Dong Dancing WheelsNovember 18, 2006Cuyahoga Community College (Eastern Campus) – Cleveland, OhioReviewed by Steve Sucato For the final production in its 25th anniversary season Cleveland’s Dancing Wheels chose to pay tribute to two American icons that have come to symbolize the ongoing struggles and triumphs of those … Continue reading Dancing Wheels Review

GroundWorks DancetheaterNovember 17-19, 2006Trinity Cathedral – Cleveland, OhioReviewed by Steve SucatoWith a backdrop of gothic arches, organ pipes and stained glass windows, GroundWorks Dancetheater presented a program of three new works as part of its ongoing Landmarks Series that brings dance to historic venues in Northeast Ohio. The program opened with GroundWorks artistic director/choreographer David Shimotakahara’s Before with After set to a compilation of J.S. … Continue reading GroundWorks Dancetheater Review

Dance Alloy TheaterA Limited Lifetime GuaranteeApril 17, 2005 – Kelly-Strayhorn Theater; Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaReviewed by Steve Sucato The smell of earth and a haze of dust hung in the air following Dance Alloy.Theater’s gripping U.S. premiere of Per Jonsson’s masterwork “Schakt”(shaft). The last of three works featured in Alloy.Theater’s A Limited Lifetime Guarantee, “Schakt” marked a substantive step forward in the re-emergence of Pittsburgh’s oldest modern … Continue reading Dance Alloy Theater Review