The stunning set for Yang Liping Contemporary Dance’s Under Siege, on display as audiences trooped in to Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater last weekend, would have staggered even the most jaded theater-goer. It was constructed of oversized silvery shears, thousands of them dangling ominously from an undulating lighting …
Blak Whyte Gray Hits a Nerve at Mostly Mozart in New York
“Is everybody in the world going to die before someone finds the answer?” asked reluctant vampire-slayer Dr. Robert Morgan, played by Vincent Price in the classic horror film The Last Man on Earth. Morgan battles a mysterious pandemic that turns humans into vampires – a premise that evoked mid-20…
Scramble, The Seasons, and The Elements of Style from the ever-stylish New York Theatre Ballet
1946 must have been a dreadful year for weather if John Cage’s The Seasons, which premiered the following spring, was any reflection. Merce Cunningham wrought a ballet from it. And Richard Alston, who studied with Cunningham in the 70’s, reinvented it for New York Theatre Ballet in the spring …