Reviews - photography

Dance Performance from Uganda

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:05:51 +0000

Ndere Dance Troupe in Kampala, Uganda Since this past June, my older sister Jordan has been living in Uganda and working at a health and human rights non-profit organization. She has ample time on weekends to travel, and every Monday I look forward to an email that fills me in on her weekend adventures. [...]

Final Thoughts on The Copier at Cedar Lake

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 02:56:01 +0000

Ana-Maria Lucaciu in The Copier, photo by Evan I returned to Chelsea on Friday evening for a final viewing of Jill Johnson’s The Copier. As I mentioned in my review of the opening night performance, every viewing of an interactive installation such as The Copier provides a unique and slightly different experience. So I [...]

Cedar Lake’s The Copier: Opening Night, Part 2

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:26:30 +0000

Ana-Maria Lucaciu in Jill Johnson’s The Copier, photo by Gillian Crosson Gillian Crosson, a friend of David Poe (the composer of Cedar Lake’s The Copier), was generous enough to send me some of her beautiful photographs from opening night of the installation. You can view all of her photos from the performance here. Enjoy! Soojin [...]

Cedar Lake’s The Copier: Opening Night

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:50:25 +0000

Cedar Lake dancers in Jill Johnson’s The Copier, photo by Evan I’ve been fortunate enough to follow the progress of Jill Johnson’s The Copier for Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet over the past two weeks by observing rehearsals, but I still wasn’t sure what to expect at the installation’s premiere. The space felt and looked different [...]

Cedar Lake’s The Copier: Behind the Scenes, Part 4

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:33:54 +0000

Nickemil Concepcion and Soojin Choi rehearsing Jill Johnson’s The Copier Before yesterday’s tech rehearsal started at Cedar Lake, choreographer Jill Johnson warned me that The Copier will look entirely different when it premieres tomorrow (August 20th) and suggested that I pass this information along to readers. It was my first time seeing the piece from start [...]

Cedar Lake’s The Copier: Behind the Scenes, Part 1

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:16:51 +0000

Jill Johnson (left) observes the Cedar Lake dancers, photo by Evan August 4, 2008 The studio was silent on Monday afternoon as four clusters of Cedar Lake dancers were weaving their arms together, paying attention to the way their wrists, elbows, and shoulders folded into or retracted out of the others. The complexity of the movement [...]

Quotation of the Day

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:10:20 +0000

“I think, when I really get down to it, when I pare away all the trappings and masks and frills of the form, I think it is about something none of the photos or the videos or the texts that are published here can reveal: changing the energy in the space…Eventually the space is changed. [...]

Solar-Powered Dance Series

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 03:16:31 +0000

Dancers warming up behind the stage As I entered Stuyvesant Cove Park early this evening, I kept my eyes peeled for a large stage and crowds of people who I assumed would be attending the Solar-Powered Dance Series, presented by Solar One, a green energy, arts, and education center. But around 6 PM, it [...]

PeepDance at SummerStage: Everybody Likes to Peep

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 06:04:54 +0000

A member of Tami Dance Company in Nimrod Freed’s PeepDance, photo by Evan Central Park’s SummerStage became a village of peepers on Saturday night as hundreds of other people and I scurried from one peep cell to the next to peep on the eight dancers of Tami Dance Company in Nimrod Freed’s PeepDance. Seven brightly [...]

Gallery 100: Jerome Robbins Continuum

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:16:14 +0000

Image from Gallery 100, photographs of Antique Epigraphs by Paul Kolnik While I was in Saratoga for NYCB’s Gala at SPAC, I stopped by Gallery 100 to see Jerome Robbins Continuum, a display of photographs by Paul Kolnik that show New York City Ballet in Robbins’ ballets. Kolnik has been photographing the company for over thirty [...]

Cedar Lake Dancers Featured in Dance Magazine

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:38:28 +0000

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 [...]

Sara Mearns Promoted to Principal Dancer

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:11:06 +0000

Sara Mearns in Jerome Robbins’ Dances at a Gathering, photo by Paul Kolnik After a very full and magnificent spring season of performing, Sara Mearns of New York City Ballet has been promoted to principal. She performed in a huge amount of the repertoire this season and I cannot think of a performance where she wasn’t [...]

Celebrating Jerome Robbins at the JCC

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:43:15 +0000

Ellen Sorrin, Jock Soto, and Robert Fairchild in costume for Fancy Free - photograph by Evan On Monday evening, thanks to the generosity of my friend Sarah, I attended a special seminar at The JCC in Manhattan on the life and work of choreographer Jerome Robbins, with a particular focus on his contribution to New York [...]

Jerome Robbins Exhibit at the NY Public Library for the Performing Arts

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:19:10 +0000

Today I stopped by the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center to check out New York Story: Jerome Robbins and His World, the library’s exhibit commemorating the tenth anniversary of Mr. Robbins’ death. A large room on the first floor of the library is divided into sections that each [...]

Isadora’s Hat

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:08:32 +0000

For some time now I’ve been photographing ceramic art found in subway stations throughout New York City. One of my favorites is the 23rd St. station in Manhattan on the N/W line, where different ceramic hats line the walls. Created by Keith Godard in 2002, “Memories of Twenty-Third Street,” as the display is called, is [...]