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Review 2, 1-23: 'Off' is ON
Into the Way-back and Way-out Machine with Danceoff
By Maura Nguyen
Donohue
Copyright 2004 Maura Nguyen Donohue
NEW YORK
-- Once again, Katie Workum and Terry Dean Bartlett managed
to compile a collection of short and sweet gems for Danceoff!,
seen in its latest edition January 15 at Symphony Space's
Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater. Hell, it was worth the trip
just to see Bartlett shake his thing in a 1985 video choreographed
by Miss Kate (his hometown dance teacher) and its subsequent
historical recreation by Bartlett, Workum and Leigh Garrett.
Click here
for the full review...
Paris
Journal, 1-23: Identity Crisis
Lifting the Veil, Veiling the Dance
By Paul
Ben-Itzak
Copyright 2004 The Dance Insider
PARIS
-- These are confusing times for the Republique, currently
contemplating a law which, by the latest reports, could ban
not just the veil from the French classroom but the turban,
the beard, the bandana, and any other sign that could possibly
be interpreted as or even substituted for a "visible" or "ostentatious"
(the legislators are arguing over which term to use) demonstration
of one's religion in a country where most of the public holidays
celebrate Christian occasions. Some Muslim proponents of the
ban (most notably the Imam of Marseille) argue that there's
nothing in the Koran which dictates women should wear the
veil, a contention which, if true, would seem to exempt the
veil from a ban targeting religious symbols. The Sikhs --
a French community of which apparently everyone in the government
was unaware until they started speaking up against this proposed
law -- argue that they should be allowed to keep their turbans,
because the turbans themselves are not religiously significant,
but are worn to veil their hair, which is. A cartoon by Willem
in yesterday's Liberation summed up the confusion at its ludicrous
best: Before a screaming teacher with electrified hair who's
taken refuge on top of a blackboard stands a bow-tied girl
with a beard ("But it's a lay-beard!"), a baggy-pantsed boy
with a bandana over his chin ("I wear a veil to hide my beard."),
a pimply teen ('It's a form of Jewish acne, and I want to
protect it!"), a turbaned boy in short pants ("I am not Sikh,
I am wounded."), and a tall young man clad only in a loincloth
and bandana with his arms akimbo, crucifixion-like, as he
insists, "Me, wearing a cross? Where?" Elsewhere on the cultural
terrain, it seems that a heretofore under-publicized aspect
of the new regime for France's Intermittent (or freelance)
performing artists and technicians is that the benefit reductions
include the elimination of maternity leave, causing one actor
to remark, "It's so that artists can't reproduce."
Countering
the official Xenophobia, we have the continuing and generally
admirable efforts of theaters to expose French audiences to
other cultures. At the Theatre de la Bastille, this has taken
the form of a sort of mini-festival, "Complicites portugaises."
It began charmingly, with shared concerts by Vera Mantero
and Joao Fiadeiro, two giants on the Portuguese contemporary
scene, both of whom have significant international profiles
as well. I was charmed by the concert I saw and
reviewed in November, but looking back after catching
a second entry, Tiago Guedes's "A solo," January 12, perhaps
I should have been alarmed. Click
here for the full review...
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Review 1, 1-20: The Whisper in the Wilderness
Waltzing and Listening with Margie Gillis
By Angela
Jones
Copyright 2004 Angela Jones
Flash
Review 2, 1-20: ADHD Dance
Playing Mix 'n' Match with Munisteri
By Susan
Yung
Copyright 2004 Susan Yung
Flash
Review 3, 1-20: Alone Together
Peter Pucci Picks a Pack of Perfect Partners
By Douglas Frank
Copyright 2004 Douglas Frank
Flash
Review 1, 1-14: The Bard, but Better
Gordon Spins Shakespeare
By Gus Solomons
jr
Copyright 2004 Gus Solomons jr
Flash
Review 2, 1-14: Faint Thunder
'Ivan,' Seen Through the Eyes of Noverre, at the Paris Opera
Ballet
By Katharine
Kanter
Copyright 2004 Katharine Kanter
Flash
Review 3, 1-14: My One and Not Only
Appaix has Gotta Dance, And Sing, and Mug, and....
By Melanie
Rios
Copyright 2004 Melanie Rios
Flash
News, 1-12: APAP Update
APAP Bars Dance Insider from Members Conference
By Paul Ben-Itzak
Copyright 2004 The Dance Insider
The
Buzz, 1-12: Miller Time
Unembracing APAP's "New Era"
By Paul
Ben-Itzak
Copyright 2004 The Dance Insider
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Review 1, 1-9: Altogether Out of the Past
John Kelly's 'Skin' Games
By Susan
Yung
Copyright 2004 Susan Yung
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Review 2, 1-9: Not Altogether Different
Space Cadets & Other States of Beings from Stenn & Co.
By
Gus Solomons jr
Copyright 2004 Gus Solomons jr
In
Memorium, 1-6: The Teacher, the Dancer
Farewell to Svetlana Afanasieva & Alan Eto
By Aimee
Ts’ao & Fiona Marcotty
Copyright 2004 Aimee Ts’ao & Fiona Marcotty
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Review, 1-6: Walkabout
The Obscured Objects of Brice Leroux
By Melanie
Rios
Copyrigt 2004 Melanie Rios
The
Buzz, 1-6: Boxed-out
Bolshoi Bars Volochkova from Paris Tour; Altogether Outside
of the Box; Mathew Cussick's Dream Deferred
By Paul
Ben-Itzak
Copyright 2004 The Dance Insider
Flash
Review 1, 12-30: Nouvelle Noix
Tulsa Revises a Christmas Classic, a la mode Parisian
By Alicia
Chesser
Copyright 2003 Alicia Chesser
Flash
Review 2, 12-30: Downtown Decoys
Trisha Brown, and Liebeslieder Walzing, at the Paris Opera
Ballet
By Paul Ben-Itzak
Copyright 2003 The Dance Insider
Flash
Review 1, 12-19: Unaccustomed Fit
Plenty in Nothing from Laurent Pichaud & Co.
By Melanie
Rios
Copyright 2003 Melanie Rios
Flash
Review Journal, 12-19: Dancers on Film
The Menagerie Reflects; Rizzo Reduces; Toumanova at the Front
By Paul Ben-Itzak
Copyright 2003 The Dance Insider
Flash
Review 3, 12-19: The Bone Orchard
Evans's "When Day Became Night" Can Still Grow
By Aimee Ts’ao
Copyright 2003 Aimee Ts’ao
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