Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet appeared on my radar screen after the company reached out to dance bloggers during their 2008 winter season. I was immediately impressed by the dancers, the diverse repertoire, and the welcoming staff. Since then, I’ve returned to Cedar Lake for several other performances, including the company’s Glassy Essence installation, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

One of my Barnard dance professors recently emailed me with some information about Deborah Friedes, a former student of hers from the Princeton Ballet School. Deborah is currently studying the modern dance scene in Israel on a Fulbright scholarship by attending dance performances, observing and taking classes, and conducting interviews with choreographers and [...]

Evan wrote at length about the incredible performance that we had the honor of seeing on Sunday evening- Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet’s presentation of an all-Naharin choreography, ‘Decadance.’ (Thanks again, Caleb!) Naharin’s choreography is truly phenomenal in that it has the rare quality of being powerful and moving without the slightest bit of pretentiousness. It [...]