This month’s Dance Magazine includes an article on professional dancers who balance performing careers with academics. New York City Ballet soloist Teresa Reichlen is featured since she studies at Barnard College on the Upper West Side while performing with NYCB at Lincoln Center. Teresa mentions that she’s interested in biology and chemistry, and [...]

Back in May, Allison gave me this beautiful Cedar Lake poster (of dancer Ana-Maria Lucaciu, photo by Paul B. Goode) as a birthday present. It’s now framed and finally hanging in my apartment. I love the photograph, and Ohad Naharin’s Decadance has been one of my favorites since seeing it last January. Oddly enough, in [...]

Cover image of Dance Magazine, July 2008, photo by Kristie Kahns I’ll be in the Adirondack Mountains for the next few days, with little or no internet access and therefore no blogging. It’s not always easy to suddenly disconnect from email, blogging, and general online dependence, but I’m really looking forward to escaping from Manhattan [...]

Aszure Barton at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, Dance Magazine - April 2008 photo by Matthew Karas During my first semester at Barnard, Aszure Barton, post-modern’s “it” girl, choreographed an ensemble piece for about fourteen dancers for the departmental dance performance at Miller Theater. I remember feeling riveted by the movement. It was feisty, quirky, fierce, [...]

Saturday afternoon I headed to the JCC Manhattan on the Upper West Side for a Gaga movement workshop, which was part of the Israel Non-Stop Festival that runs until March 6th. Gaga is the name of the movement language developed by Ohad Naharin, artistic director of Israel’s Batsheva Dance Company, and is the [...]