Tag: Ballet

Dance Reviews 2020

Dickinson’s ‘KL3668′ Highlights Verb Ballets’ Engaging ‘NeoClassical Lines’ Program [REVIEW – Arts Air]

Verb BalletsNeoClassical Lines – ACCESS/Verb LivestreamOctober 9, 2020 Reviewed by Steve Sucato Founded in 1987 as The Repertory Project and changing its name (and vision) in 2003, Verb Ballets has had a history of reinvention and adaptation. Keeping with the latter, Verb was one of the first Northeast, Ohio dance troupes to fully embrace virtual performance programming because of the global pandemic. Rather than going the dance film … Continue reading Dickinson’s ‘KL3668′ Highlights Verb Ballets’ Engaging ‘NeoClassical Lines’ Program [REVIEW – Arts Air]

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Dance Reviews 2020

Whim W’Him’s ‘Choreographic Shindig VI’ ups the ante on Virtual Dance Offerings [REVIEW-Arts Air]

Reviewed by Steve Sucato The global pandemic caught many dance companies big and small flat-footed when it came to alternative ways to do what they do. And while some of the big budget troupes may have the capability of throwing more resources into creative virtual performance solutions, it has been forward-thinking smaller dance organizations that have been making the most noise and producing some of … Continue reading Whim W’Him’s ‘Choreographic Shindig VI’ ups the ante on Virtual Dance Offerings [REVIEW-Arts Air]

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Dance Reviews 2020

Chamber Dance Project Finds Fertile Artistic Ground in Virtual Dance Programs [REVIEW]

Chamber Dance ProjectNew Works 2020 (& Beyond)Online Film Performance SeriesJuly 31 and September 24, 2020 Reviewed by Steve Sucato Embracing the new realities of performing in a world under pandemic, Washington, DC-based Chamber Dance Project (CDP) took its annual summer performance series online for the first time. In New Works 2020 (& beyond), July 31 and September 24, artistic director Diane Coburn Bruning and company … Continue reading Chamber Dance Project Finds Fertile Artistic Ground in Virtual Dance Programs [REVIEW]

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Dance Reviews 2020

Northeast Ohio’s Dance Troupe’s Show Out in ‘Moving Still’

Ballet Legato & FriendsMoving StillShaker Heights, OhioSeptember 26, 2020 Reviewed by Steve Sucato Carrying on the multi-troupe parking lot pop-up performance format introduced in Urban Dance Cleveland’s Dancing Through the Pandemic this past August, Moving Still, presented by Ballet Legato and friends, offered up a similar repertory program of multi-styled dance works. The program, with some performers wearing masks and others not, took place in … Continue reading Northeast Ohio’s Dance Troupe’s Show Out in ‘Moving Still’

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Dance Reviews 2020

Seattle’s Whim W’him’s Virtual 11th Season Led Off With A Pair Of Brilliant Dance Films [REVIEW-Arts Air]

Reviewed by Steve Sucato Seattle contemporary dance company Whim W’him entered its 11th season under the COVID-19 pandemic with the plan to move all their performance online. The experimental season featuring original dance films by some of the world’s most in-demand contemporary dance choreographers kicked off August 13 with the virtual production XALT. Originally planned for live performance, June 2020 at the Cornish Playhouse at Seattle … Continue reading Seattle’s Whim W’him’s Virtual 11th Season Led Off With A Pair Of Brilliant Dance Films [REVIEW-Arts Air]

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Dance Reviews 2020

Seattle Dance Collective’s Dance Film Series ‘Continuum: Bridging the Distance’ is Satisfying Viewing

Reviewed by Steve Sucato Seattle may have been ground zero for the COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S., but it was also ground zero for one of the more ambitious dance projects to stem from the global pandemic’s aftereffects on the dance world. Seattle Dance Collective’s (SDC) Continuum: Bridging the Distance was a free month-long virtual series of world-premiere dance works/films performed by members of SDC and … Continue reading Seattle Dance Collective’s Dance Film Series ‘Continuum: Bridging the Distance’ is Satisfying Viewing

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Dance Reviews 2020

DANCECleveland’s Virtual Dance Festival a Soul-Nourishing Stand-In for Live Dance

Reviewed by Steve Sucato Another outcome of the global pandemic, DANCECleveland’s Dance On! Virtual Dance Festival 2020 that began Saturday, July 25 and ran for a week, replaced its planned annual in-person American Dance Festival in Cleveland (ADF in CLE). The online event treated virtual audiences to four exclusive pre-recorded dance performance videos along with virtual artist chats and a variety of differently styled dance … Continue reading DANCECleveland’s Virtual Dance Festival a Soul-Nourishing Stand-In for Live Dance

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Airings

New Look Chamber Dance Project Takes to the Virtual Stage for its Annual Summer Season Production

By Steve Sucato The familiar quote, “If the mountain will not come to Muhammad, then Muhammad must go to the mountain,” takes on new meaning for Washington, DC-based Chamber Dance Project’s annual summer performance series, New Works. “Because of the pandemic” — a phrase now firmly rooted in the global lexicon — the company had to cancel its in-theater performances this summer in favor of a virtual experience for audiences. New … Continue reading New Look Chamber Dance Project Takes to the Virtual Stage for its Annual Summer Season Production

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Airings

New summer dance program ‘nextSPACE’ one of a few recent developments for GroundWorks DanceTheater

By Steve Sucato (with Jimmy Schlemmer) Amid uncertainty over the global pandemic and the ways forward for arts organizations, Cleveland’s GroundWorks DanceTheater is making the best of the uncertainty by doing what dance companies do best; getting creative. Their new summer dance program nextSPACE, running now – August 22 is an interconnected series of activities and performances in both live and virtual spaces around Cleveland … Continue reading New summer dance program ‘nextSPACE’ one of a few recent developments for GroundWorks DanceTheater

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Press Releases

Dancers Responding to AIDS 2020 Virtual Fire Island Dance Festival

July 14, 2020 Watch an unforgettable evening of world-class dance with the Virtual Fire Island Dance Festival this Friday, July 17 at 7 pm Eastern. Register for the free stream. The evening is set to include three world premieres: Celebrated modern tap dancer Ayodele Casel’s Oscar Joy, an effervescent solo performed by Casel from her home dance studio, Original Tap House in the Bronx. KEIGWIN + COMPANY artistic director Larry … Continue reading Dancers Responding to AIDS 2020 Virtual Fire Island Dance Festival

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