Art
The Captivating Choreography of Emergency Drills
Emergency evacuation drills, though necessary, are a pain.
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Opinion
This Digital Dance Space Reacts to Performers' Movements in Real Time
This ultra-interactive performance space is dance's version of the New Aesthetic. Created by Taiwan's Anarchy Dance Theatre in collaboration with the avant-garde new media creative firm Ultra Combos, the blank performance stage becomes a canvas for a series of optical-illusion projections that anima
Performance
Two Dance Experiments Peel Back the Layers
RoseAnne Spradlin’s beginning of something was evocative but didn’t offer enough to chew on; DD Dorvillier’s Danza Permanente is not one of her best works, but it gives gives viewers a glimpse of the choreographer's process.
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Dancing Up a Storm on the High Line
Minutes before the much-admired postmodern choreographer Trisha Brown was to stage her early 1973 “Roof Piece” on Thursday, June 9, the High Line’s urban park rangers and the stage managers of Trisha Brown’s Dance Company began to panic. An upstaging performance by a potentially show-stopping tornad
Art
With Founder Gone, What's the Future of Merce Cunningham's Studio?
A small group of dance students recently gathered on the floor of the Cunningham Studio to try to save their dance program from an early death. “There's no way the studio won't make it,” Suzanne Thomas, a French student, said. She is passionate about preserving it for a reason: “Pure Cunningham does