2nd Best Dance Company Presents ‘Light Labor’

By Hannah Garner 2nd Best Dance Company blends humor and tragedy while tackling big topics through“rigorous, inventive movement and wit” (Dance Magazine). The company brings its signaturestyle to Red Hook with a physically rigorous, sometimes virtuosic, almost always slapstick workentitled Light Labor. This evening-length work walks the fuzzy, shag-carpet line between dance performance andnarrative play, leaning into both text and movement to wonder how we … Continue reading 2nd Best Dance Company Presents ‘Light Labor’

Dance giant Mark Morris brings his dancers — and musicians — to Pittsburgh’s Byham Theater

By Steve Sucato I first met celebrated choreographer Mark Morris in 2002, on a tour of his state-of-the-art Brooklyn, N.Y. Dance Center with a dozen fellow dance critics. As we were being led into the main studio where Morris was rehearsing his Mark Morris Dance Group, he stopped us and sternly directed us to take our shoes off and quietly seat ourselves along one wall … Continue reading Dance giant Mark Morris brings his dancers — and musicians — to Pittsburgh’s Byham Theater