Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire in The Red List
Ricardo Rique-Sanchez and Saya Harada in Anna Sokolow’s Odes
Trisha Brown’s Astral Converted
Petrushka
“Do not forget - never forget it! - that dance-educational work is an artistically conditioned task.” — Mary Wigman
“Art is communication spoken by man for humanity in a language raised above the everyday happening.” — Mary Wigman
“It has been said that the entire history of ballet has see-sawed between two approaches to dance. There have been choreographers like Noverre, Fokine, and Graham who advocate that dance should be a tightly woven tapestry of movement, drama, character, and design…a ‘ballet d’action’. And then there are choreographers like Petipa, Balanchine, and Cunningham who, believing that movement in and of itself is the basis of dance, argue that a ballet can indeed be constructed around a suite of display dances (divertissement) or can in fact do away with plot entirely (an “abstract” ballet). So although each of the choreographers…has his or her own approach to dance, their approaches can be roughly divided into two groups: those who stress the theatrics of dance, including dramatic expression, gestural significance, thematic resonance; and those who are interested in dance in and of itself.” — Cobbett Steinberg, The Dance Anthology
Mindy Upin
Jason Samuels Smith
Pilobolus