Since this past February, Winger contributor and independent dance blogger Deborah Friedes and I have been emailing and commenting on each others’ posts after Katie Glasner (my dance professor at Barnard and Deborah’s teacher at Princeton Ballet School) suggested we get in touch.  Deborah just completed a Fulbright scholarship studying contemporary dance in Israel, which [...]

Here’s a preview of Israeli choreographer Nimrod Freed’s PeepDance, performed by Tami Dance Company with music by Philip Glass.  It will make its US debut on July 26th (tomorrow!), 7-10 PM on the field at Central Park SummerStage, along with Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company in Rami Be’er’s Kef Kafim.  Click here for more information about this [...]

Christopher Wheeldon’s Rococo Variations - photo by Paul Kolnik “Here and Now” was a fitting title for a program that featured four contemporary works - the oldest premiered in 1998 - by some of the most sought-after choreographers in ballet today. But I was swept far away from the here and the now, traveling to [...]