On a stark white elevated platform in the stark white rotunda of New York City’s Guggenheim Museum, dancers Boris Charmatz and Emmanuelle Huynh grappled in a mesmerizing bout of slow-motion contact improv to a nearly unrecognizable recording of Ravel’s …
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Leigh Donlan reviewed the Sunday Mar 9th, 2025, performance at the Mark O’Donnell Theater in Brooklyn
Dance maker, philosopher and impresario Julia K. Gleich and her Norte Maar co-founder Jason Andrew regularly match up choreographers and visual artists in a collaborative project called CounterPointe. This year’s effort, the 12th in …
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Leigh Donlan reviewed the Thursday Mar 13th, 2025, performance at New York City Center
Twyla Tharp is still making dance history, celebrating her 60th anniversary with a coast-to-coast Diamond Jubilee tour, and bringing two New York premieres to City Center last week – her monumental Diabelli from 1998, and her …
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An ornery witch pounded her burled staff, men in kilts brawled, sylphs wafted through the air and a long scarf lay strewn across the floor of the midcentury library that had been converted into a bright and airy rehearsal space. I had been invited to a rehearsal of American Repertory …
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Leigh Donlan reviewed the March 1st Saturday matinee of Swan Lake at the Koch Theater
Having to stare at length at Per Kirkeby’s abstract set design during a gorgeous Tchaikovsky overture wasn’t the best way to start Peter Martins’ Swan Lake. The wearying brown and gray tones offered no …
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