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Flash Reviews are instant impressions of performances, posted the day after the show. The Dance Insider is the only online or print source for overnight reviews. Why wait? Read about last night's performance today. To find out more about our Flashers, click here. (Note: Flashes of Saturday performances are posted Monday morning because, hey, even Flash Reviewers and webmistresses need to sleep in on Sunday.)

December 2000

Flash View, 12-22: It's the Dancer
Let us Now Praise Modern Dancers

Flash Review, 12-19: Holiday Fun in Chicago
Joffrey's "Nutcracker," and Other Treats

Flash Review 1, 12-18: Way-out Art Tour
ODC Sketches Raphael at the Getty

Flash Review 2, 12-18: 'One Fell Swoop'
Wells Finds the Art in Skateboarding

Flash Review 1, 12-16: Weighing the 'Divine'
Rosa Mei Dances Dante

Flash Review 2, 12-16: Crippled Birds
Brenner's Flights of Polka & Other Fancies

Flash View, 12-14: Keefer's Crucial Crusade
A Dissenting Voice

Flash Review, 12-14: Yummy Ballet
ABT Youngsters' Winning Night at the Kaye

Flash View, 12-13: Keefer's Crazy Crusade
A Wounded Ballet Mom Strikes Out Blindly

Flash Review, 12-13: Ailey Strikes a Balance
I Should Have Paid for It!

Flash Review 1, 12-12: Ballet HisPedroco. Video Clip!
Ruiz and Hispanico Colleagues Heat it Up

Flash Review 2, 12-12: Cloudy Vision
DeGarmo's Unrealized "Eyes of the World"

Phlash Review 1, 12-11: Phlaking Out
Ezralow Meets Danco

Flash Review 2, 12-11: Different-Abled
Shannon Leans on Samaritans

Flash Review 3, 12-11: A Real Sugar Plum
Sweets from Kudelka and NBC

Flash Review, 12-8: Boom, Boom, Boom.... Sigh
De Lavallade Takes Ailey Back to the Foundations

Flash Review 1, 12-6: "Dear Jurgen: I Hear the Economy is Booming. A POEM: For Whom Does it Boom?"
The Absurdist Brilliance of Shempco -- AKA Stanya Kahn

Flash Review 2, 12-6: Repent and Rejoice
At the Church of Fierce Dancing with the Ailey

Flash Review 1, 12-5: Velveteen
ODC's Holiday Alternative for Young Audiences

Flash Review 2, 12-5: Vibrant & Disappointing Ramayana
A Spectacle with Somewhat Lackluster Performances

Flash Review 1, 12-4: Bye-bye, Zvi
Mesmerized at Offspring

Flash Review 2, 12-4: Varone's Secret Stories
Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors

Flash Review 3, 12-4: The Wonderful Wizards of Oz
Read this Review Upside-Down

Flash Review 1, 12-2: Fix Ailey Jesus, Fix it
Following the Current Ailey Downstream into Narcissus's Pool

Flash Review 2, 12-2: Grappling with Tragedy
Classic Theater Dance from Mary Anthony

Flash Review 3, 12-2: Letting it Flow
Improv Festival Kicks Off at Danspace Project

Flash Review, 12-1: All Ailey All the Time
Get Your Jaded Butt Off Your aol.com and up to City Center

November 2000

Flash Review 1, 11-30: Silent Night
The Sounds of Silence from Eiko and Koma

Flash Review 2, 11-30: A Gala to Celebrate
Out of the Cold and Trouble, a Hand from Alvin

Flash Review 1, 11-29: Ticket to Torture
Sydney Dance Company: Don't Believe the Hype

Flash Review 2, 11-29: Moving Men's Stories for All
Lubovitch's Universal 'Ruins'

Flash Review 1, 11-27: Extraordinary Things
Believe it or Not at City Ballet

Flash Review 2, 11-27: Building a Better 'Nutcracker'
Lustig and Brown Give ARB's Production a Facelift

Flash Review 1, 11-22: Looking at Love
Love for Sale at City Ballet Gala

Flash Review 2, 11-22: Looking at Sex
A Warm & Wet Romp from Torosian

Flash Journal, 11-21: White Oak Diary
Past Forward to the Future

Flash Preview, 11-21: Fonteyn for Sale
Christie's Auctions a Ballerina's Legacy in Costumes

Flash Review 1, 11-20: Kinesthetic Haiku
Moschen in Motion: Valorizing Nature

Flash Review 2, 11-20: Classic Theater-Going
Big Dance Theater from Big Dance Theater

Flash Review, 11-18: Eyes Wide Open
Philip Hamilton's Moving Vocalscapes

Flash View, 11-17: An American Dance Fan in Paris
Will the Real Dance Capitol of the World Please Stand Up?

Flash Review, 11-17: A Little Something....
Putting Upper Manhattan on Dance's UMAP

Flash View, 11-16: An American Choreographer Abroad
What's a Little Misverstand Between Friends?

Flash Review, 11-14: Marcel Marceau's World
Exercising the Imagination

Flash Review 1, 11-13: The Master's Piece
Merce, Arranged

Flash Review 2, 11-13: Life-Affirming
The Quite Bearable Lightness of Being Parsons

Flash Review 3, 11-13: Time Lapse
New Wrinkles on Fuller from Sperling

Flash Review 1, 11-12: Florida Picks a Winner
It's Miami City Ballet

Flash Review 2, 11-12: Firebird Flies Again
'Seasons' Shines; Kudelka's New 'Firebird' Needs Scenic Seasoning

Flash Review 3, 11-12: Andalucian Fireballs
Symphony Space Bursts with Flamenco Song

Flash Review 1, 11-7: Out of Space...
...And Breaking the Pecking Order

Flash Review 2, 11-7: Magic Circus Ride
Cahin-Caha's Cirque Batard takes Bhagdad

Flash Review 1, 11-6: Everybody Wasn't Kung Fu Fighting
A Nice End to a Not Entirely Nice Day

Flash Review 2, 11-6: NeeDCanDream
Dance Theater that Dreams are Made of

Flash Review 3, 11-6: ABT Wrings the Juice Out
Mixed Program Displays Many Talents

Flash Review 1, 11-3: My Dinner with Billy
Prix Set with Forsythe and the Paris Opera

Flash Review 2, 11-3: The House of North
Toronto Dance Theatre Summons the North

Flash View, 11-2: Boycott the Graham Trust
Destroying Martha's Legacy

Flash Review 1, 11-2: Postures of Prayer
Cloud Gate's River of Rice

Flash Review 2, 11-2: A Canadian in New York
The Outsider Inside, or "Woza... NYC"

October 2000

Flash Review 1, 10-31: Ghost Stories
Tricks and Treats from Ping Chong & Co.

Flash Review 2, 10-31: Shaking Your Booty, with Reservations
Bahe Folklorico: Erotic, Violent -- Afro-Brazilian as We Know it

Flash Review 3, 10-31: Released from Release
Cheng and Harrington Go "Against Type"

Flash Review 1, 10-30: Isadora's Children
Lynda Gaudreau Documents Modern Dance's Journey

Flash Review 2, 10-30: Land of the Giants
Holder Tries to Hold His Own Among Balanchine, Graham

Flash Review 3, 10-30: ABT, Exposed
Matinee Highlights Strengths and Weaknesses

Flash Review 1, 10-27: Twirling & Swirling with Dave
Dorfman, Paying Tribute and Subverting

Flash Review 2, 10-27: Just Improvise!
Just De Facto, M'am

Flash Review 3, 10-27: All-women, All-tango
TangoMujer Seduces Philly

Flash Review 1, 10-25: Where's Ida Rubinstein?
Nijinsky: Mis-steps at an Exhibition
(But Still Reasons to Celebrate)

Flash Review 2, 10-25: Bowled Over
In Company with Marcel Marceau

Flash Review 1, 10-23: From Paris, Avec Feeling
Technique + Emotion = Paris Opera Ballet

Flash Review 2, 10-23: One Night Only
Koresh and Brian Sanders Rock the Crowd

Flash Review 1, 10-21: The Joy of Being Themselves
"Dance on a Shoestring" Delights

Flash Review 2, 10-21: The Big Apple
Artists Chew on New York

Flash Review 1, 10-20: Is Ballet Irrelevant?
In Nureyev's "Raymonda," Yes

Flash Review 2, 10-20: Reason to Celebrate
Battery Dance Company and its Age

Flash Review 3, 10-20: The Mind-Body Connection
Barnard Dances

Flash Review 1, 10-19: Strange Dance Attractions
Petronio's Dance Theory

Flash Review 2, 10-19: Healing
"Auto: Body": Activating Art

Flash Review 1, 10-16: Bocca Channels Fosse
Star Hot, His "Modern Ballets" Not

Flash Review 2, 10-16: Not Intimidated at the Ballet
Some Pain, Much Gain from Miami

Flash Review 3, 10-16: Between the Lines...
And in the 'Back Alley' with Harris

Flash Review 1, 10-14: Sly Dances
Headlong's Many 'Uses' for Ulysses

Flash Review 2, 10-14: Lemon Tree
Wandering in Ralph Lemon's 'Geography'

Flash Review 1, 10-13: Weightless, Bloodless, and Airtight
Mark Morris's 2-Dimensional Dancers

Flash Review 2, 10-13: Triple-Play
Limon to Baker to Byrd Uptown

Flash Review 3, 10-13: Personal Style
Li Chiao-Ping Shows Distinct Style at Danspace Project

Flash Review 1, 10-12: Less is More
Austerity Par for Childs's Course

Flash Review 2, 10-12: Flash with Class
DCDC Dances On and On

Flash View, 10-12: Existential Crisis
Is This a Community of Careers, or Ideas?

The Dance Insider Interview, 10-11:
Dame Ninette de Valois

Flash Review 1, 10-10: Capoeira Dialogue
Appropriation Versus Appreciation

Flash Review 2, 10-10: Full Frontal
Tolentino Bottoms Out; Finley Scares the Shit Out....

Flash Review 3, 10-10: Sinister Uncertainty
Pigeon-holing Monson at P.S. 122

Flash Review 1, 10-9: This is a Test of the Audience Response System
Lara and Nelson Try the Risk Reflex

Flash Review 2, 10-9: Seeds, Needs, and Royal Madness
Split Decision at DTW's Splitstream

Flash Review 3, 10-9: Mirror, Mirror
Brooklyn for Loveliness

Flash Review 1, 10-7: Fiends Choreographical
Solid & Wacky Taylor at the Kennedy Center

Flash Review 2, 10-7: Night Light
Young Vic's "Arabian Nights" Illuminates the Darkness

Flash Review 1, 10-6: 'Mergency!
Major Schools to the Rescue of Graham Students

Flash Review 2, 10-6: Hai-yah!
Cutting it Up With Yamamoto-san and Suan-li

Flash Review 3: More, More, More!
Australians Not Yet Hot Enough in "Coppelia"

Flash Dispatch, 10-5: Spectacle at City Hall
S.F. Dancers Unite but Fail to Ignite

Flash Review 1, 10-5: War on Welles
Dead Man Mocking at BAM

Flash Review 2, 10-5: "Coppelia" Clarity
PNB's Tobiason Reprises Signature Role

Flash Review 1, 10-4: Born Again
Vincent's New Frontiers for Hubbard St.

Flash Review 2, 10-4: Released
PPS Danse Fights its Way Out

Flash Dispatch, 10-2: Color My World
Intersection 2 Confab: Heaven for Artists of Color

Flash Review 1, 10-2: Brahms in the Mix
Brendel & Friends & Gorgeous Music

Flash Review 2, 10-2: Avant-Garde-Arama
Sending up the Genre at P.S. 122

September 2000

Flash Review, 9-30: Tharp Redux
Twyla Marches on, Through Her Dancers

Flash Review 1, 9-29: The British are Coming Out! The British are Coming Out!
Bintley's Brits Give a Schooling

Flash Review 2, 9-29: The British are not Yanks! The British are not Yanks!
All that (Royal!?) Jazz from Birmingham

Flash Review 3, 9-29: Letting It All Out
Walking Rumi's Spiritual Path at La MaMa

Flash Review 1, 9-27: Hip-hop is in the HOUUUUUSE
Harris and Crue Show the Dance World What Time of Day It Is

Flash Interview, 9-27: David McAllister in the House
...And Australian Ballet Becomes a Republic All Its Own

Flash Review 2, 9-27: Celebrating the Margins
"Artists in Exile" Brings Legacy & Future of Bay Dance to the Fore

Flash Review 1, 9-26: It's a Guy Thing
From Humor to Physical Daring 'In the Company of Men'

Flash Review 2, 9-26: Legendary
Georgians Storm the U.S. With Stunning Dancing

Flash Review 1, 9-25: Commitment
Wild & Witty for Spoke the Hub

Flash Review 2, 9-25: Surprise
Ratan Thiyam's Sub-continental Synthesis

Flash Review 3, 9-25: Everyday Puppets
Hurlin Finds 'Uses' for Inanimate Objects

Flash Review 1, 9-22: Forces of Nature Meet Forces of Bintley
Birmingham's "Edward II" Storms City Center in U.S. Premiere

Flash Review 2, 9-22: Emperors With No Clothes
Clarke Does HC Andersen

Flash Review 3, 9-22: Dancers Making Dances
Canadians Create

Flash Review, 9-21: Puppets Suspended, Disbelief Not
Tang Shu-wing's Millennial Madness

Flash Review 1, 9-19: Exhilaration of Youth
An Explosive "Mukishi" at the New Vic

Flash Review 2, 9-19: Deja Vu All Over Again
"Les Spectacle...": Old Recipes in The Kitchen

Flash Review 3, 9-19: Downtown Delights
Dancenow Downtown = Decidedly Delightful Dance

Flash Review 1, 9-18: "Evening Stars"
LeBlanc, Maynard, & RhythMEK Shine

Flash Review 2, 9-18: Cultural Journey
DTH's Magical Diversity Tour

Flash Review 3, 9-18: Raspberry Mousse & Black & White Chocolate
The Many Shades of Mr. B

Flash Review, 9-16: "Carmen"
Irresistible Dancers, Relentless Angst from Turano-Ford

Flash News & Interview, 9-15: Boston Taps Gielgud
"Brain Buzzing," Star International Director Hits the Tarmac Running
....And Boston Goes for the Big Time

Flash Review 1, 9-15: Urban Dance
Sex, Violence, Beauty from Dancenow Downtown

Flash Review 2, 9-15: Dance Haul
Dancenow Casts a Wide Net

Flash Review 1, 9-14: Kicking Butt with "Fist & Heel"
Wilson Opens DTW's Goodbye Season

Flash Review 2, 9-14: 'Night' Belongs to Puppets
Behind the Windows with Janie Geiser

Flash Review 1, 9-13: No NYCB, No Loss
Giving Justice to Balanchine

Flash Review 2, 9-13: DTH Takes Control
From Wham-Bam Dancing to Tense Entanglements

Flash Review 3, 9-13: Tripping the Hot Wire with Wendy Blum
Mouth-Gaping Dance Theater

Flash Review, 9-12: Phrenic
New Ballet Skews Ballet

Flash Review 1, 9-11: Sanctified
Robinson & Co. Give Mary Lou a Mass

Flash Review 2, 9-11:Dancing Yosemite
... And the Face of America, TM

Flash Review 3, 9-11: Tease-O-Rama
Flash Dances at Dancenow Downtown

Flash Review 1, 9-9: To Mr. B, with Love
DTH Breathes Life into Balanchine

Flash Review 2, 9-9: Nappy Neumann, Tibbitts Teeters
Mixed Bill, Mixed Results

Flash Review 3, 9-9: Candy Boxes and P-Power
Fun and Fantasy with Chremos and Dellecave

Flash Review 1, 9-8: The Downtown Season Opens
Dancenow: See it Now, See it Often

Flash Review 2, 9-8: She's Nobody's Puppet
Hanne Tierney's Subtle "Salome"

Flash Review 1, 9-7: Dance Theatre of America
DTH's Thrilling Thirties

Flash Review 2, 9-7: The Puppets are Back
Magic and Manipulations Drive "Psyche" Myth

Flash Journal, 9-5: Fringing, Philly Style
Stalked by Stilt-Walkers, Hit by Hip-Hop

Flash Review 2, 9-5: Choreo-history
Mixed Results from In Mixed Company

August 2000

Flash News, 8-31: TAB Taps McAllister
Dancer Named Director in Australia

Flash Review, 8-31: "Unforgettable Journeys"
Le Minh Tam's "Familiar Stories"

Flash Review 1, 8-28: Misfits for Outcasts
Dance and Theater in Small Corners

Flash Review 2, 8-28: Planning Life After Dance
Ailey on Ailey for Ailey Dancers

Flash Review 3, 8-28: Portrait of the AIDS Hero as an Artist
Hernando Cortez, Choreographer

Flash Review 1, 8-26: All Rage, No Art
20 Womyn in Search of a Dramaturg

Flash Review 2, 8-26: "A Place in Line"
Stratton-Gonzalez Earns its Place

Flash Review, 8-25: Pilgrimage in Search of a New Simplicity
From the Sublime to the Tacky at Oz Ballet

Flash Review 1, 8-23: Olympic Dances
DV8's New Dance Still in Trials

Flash Review 2, 8-23: Fire and Dry Ice
Dance is a Circus at the Ed Fringe Festival

Flash Review 3, 8-23: Fringe NYC
Wanted: X-Cheerleaders

Flash Review 1, 8-21: Power Ballet
Gentle Grace, Explosive Runs from the Trocks

Flash Review 2, 8-21: Back for Seconds
Deli Dances, Part Two

Flash Review 3, 8-21: All Killa, No Filla
Our Staff Dances the Rainbow

Flash Review 1, 8-18: Keeping Martha's Spirit Alive
Graham Dancers Without Graham Dances

Flash Review 2, 8-18: The Dancing Id
Mats Ek's "Don Juan"

Flash Review 3, 8-18: 3, 2, 1 -- Contact!
Alt-Dance Fest Contains the Temporary

Flash Review, 8-16: Alt-Dance
Espresso Improv

Flash Review, 8-11: Performance-O-Rama
Deli Dances in Times Square

Flash Review, 8-9: Dancing the Body Electric
Why Billy Elliot's Gotta Dance

Flash Review, 8-7: Heroic Banality
White Oak Polishes up Judson for Another Spin

Flash Dispatch, 8-4: In Mixed Company in Vietnam
This ain't no Hanoi Hilton

Flash Review 1, 8-4: Misha's Homily: Bored at the Church
White Oak's New, Dry Judson Tribute

Flash Review 2, 8-4: Out of Body Experience
Master Vajrachara Channels

Flash Report, 8-2: Breathless for Buffy
Ballet Tech's Miller Becomes the Music

Flash Review, 8-2: Chunky Move
Attempts at Defining a Possible Ideology of Surface

July 2000

Flash Review 1, 7-31: Swaggering Jugglers and Solemn Nuns
Nobrega Channels Brazilian Street Culture

Flash Review 2, 7-31: Flamenco at Close Range
Manolete Stalks Jackie Gleason

Flash Review, 7-27: It's Greek to Them
Monnier Misses African-French Connection

Flash Review 2, 7-27: In your Face, but in the Mood?
"Blues Suite" 2000 from the Ailey

Flash Review 1, 7-26: Where's the Dance?
Jamison Premiere: This Emperor Has No Clothes

Flash Review 2, 7-26: Eco-Art
Oil Spill Dance Doesn't Quite Stick

Flash Report, 7-25: Millennium Too
What I Did on My Vacation for the Last 100 Years

Flash Report 2, 7-25: Up the Stairway to Heaven Without a Critic
Good News and Bad News from Dance Conference

Flash Review 1, 7-24: Technique Serving Art
Yet Another Schooling from the Bolshoi

Flash Report, 7-24: Dance that Talk!
More Demo Needed at Dancing in the Millennium

Flash Review 2, 7-24: Celebrity Dance Match, II: Balanchine vs. Forsythe
Paris Opera Ballet Places Them Mano e Mano

Flash Report, 7-23: Room to Room with a View
Dancing in the Millenium: Day 2, Day 3

Flash Report 2, 7-23: Seeded Ground
Improvising in Balletjazzland

Flash Interview, 7-21: Vasiliev!
A Legendary Dancer Re-invents Himself and His Legendary Company

Flash Report, 7-21: Brain Hard-on
Blowing the Cobwebs out of Critical Fannies

Flash Review 1, 7-20: Bravo Bolshoi!
More Lessons from the Russians

Flash Review 2, 7-20: Walking Alone/Together. Video Clip!
In Company with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane

Flash Report, 7-20: Millennium, Day One
Getting Down with the Critics, & Other Action

Flash Review, 7-19: Strasvichay!
A Spirited "Giselle" from the Bolshoi

Flash Review, 7-17: Terpsichorean Tasters Menus
3 Gems in L.A.'s Lo-fat, Lo-fiber Smorgasbord

Flash Review 1, 7-15: Artistes or Artists?
Les Colporteurs: It Moves, but is it Moving?

Flash Review 2, 7-15: Collective Conscience
ROSAS & Friends Give a Schooling in Collaboration

Flash Review 1, 7-14: Drenched by Duende
Noche Flamenca Takes the Night

Flash Review 2, 7-14: Waking Dreams
Tanaka Takes Butoh to the Roof

Flash Review 1, 7-13: Child's Play -- NOT
Haim and Pilobolus Too up the Anti for Kids' Dance

Flash Review 2, 7-13: Asphalt Dance/Opera
Comfort & Co. Bring the Street into the Theater

Flash Dispatch, 7-12: Hong Kong Ramble
Smart Moves: a Weekend's Worth of Dance in Hong Kong

Flash Review, 7-12: Let Me Off the Vandekey-Bus!
Testosterone Overload Kicks off Lincoln Center Festival

Flash Review 1, 7-10: Provocations
Montpellier Danse 2000: Provocations, Onstage and "Ouf"

Flash Review 2, 7-10: Journeys
A Quest for Peace with Pollard and Ozuzu

Flash Eulogy and Review, 7-8: The Choreographer Suicides
Ranja Sircar and the Toll of Choreographic Excavations

Flash Review, 7-8: "Workwhithinwork"
Applauding and Whistling at Forsythe

Flash Review, 7-6: Eroticism and Nerve
Pilobolus Gives Good Dance, Uncensored

Flash Review, 7-5: Dance in Exile
"Remembering the Body" and Past Dances

Flash Rant, 7-5: Anna Kiss-it-off
Clueless & Careless at the N.Y. Times

Flash Review 1, 7-3: Dunn, Receiving
Douglas Dunn's Most Wanted

Flash Review 2, 7-3: Tony! Tony! Tony!
Powell Needs to Sit Down and Focus

Flash Review 3, 7-3: The Tao of Trisha
Brown's Latest Countermoves

June 2000

Flash Review, 6-29: Outsider Art
Odd Man in at Pilobolus

Flash Review 1, 6-28: Volatile Virtuosity. Video clip!
Strength Meets Grace as Pilobolus Meets Taiko

Flash Review 2, 6-28: Dendy Rocks On
Bad Boy Goes to His Room to be Cool

Flash Review 1, 6-26: The Last Dance
Soundance Closes its Doors With A Reminder of its Necessity

Flash Review 2, 6-26: Heat Without Light
Martins Marshals the Troops for Unremarkable Ballet

Flash Review 3, 6-26: Eight Up from 40 Up
40-somethings' Church Dance

Flash Review 1, 6-24: High High High High High
Getting HIGH with Slant Performance Group

Flash Review 2, 6-24: Spectacle a la Kylian
NDT's 4-Hour Magical Mystery Tour

Flash Review 3, 6-24: Anatomy 101 with Haim
An Anatomy of Intent -- and a Critique of Pure Movement

Flash Preview, 6-23: The Woman in the Red Dress. Video clip!
Roxas's Latest Triumph: The Birth of a Dance Company

Flash Review 1, 6-23: Elkins Elopes
Wholly Holy: Doug Elkins at Tisch

Flash Review 2, 6-23: 'When Nights Were Dark'
Dreaming Alone With Eiko and Koma

Flash Review, 6-22: An Ark for the People
Weiss's Menagerie Makes Kids Want to Dance

Flash Review 1, 6-21: Black Trek, Generations. Video clip!
Philadanco Stands on Big Shoulders

Flash Review 2, 6-21: A Little Hokum, a Little Magic
Mahdaviani Premieres "Appalachia Waltz" at City Ballet

Flash News, 6-21: Dance Takes 42nd Street. Video clip!
Dance Finds a New Home on 42nd Street

Flash Review 1, 6-20: Puzzled Delight
Riding the Pilger Line

Flash Review 2, 6-20: Dancing inna Chicago Style
Storefront for Dance Debuts

Flash Review, 6-19: A Weekend Following Anton
....In Kookie Goshen and Storytelling Wells

Flash Review 1, 6-17: Tantra Tarantula?
Pilobolus's Misogynist Spidey Sense

Flash Review 2, 6-17: The Sublime, the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Spoke the Choreographer! (Well, One of them Anyway)

Flash Review, 6-16: It's Chemical
Frankincense and Surveillance with Troika

Flash Review 1, 6-13: Deconstructing Doris
Carlson Pays Homage to Humphrey to Open ADF

Flash Review 2, 6-13: Nureyev: Now You See Him...
This Is Nureyev! A Weekend of Dance on Film

Flash Review, 6-12: Braiding Time. Video Clip!
Carolyn Dorfman at High-Vantage Point

Flash Review 1, 6-10: Ballet Lives!
City Ballet Rocks My World

Flash Review 2, 6-10: The Bolshoi Lives
The Russians Bring 'Don Q' into the 21st Century

Flash Review 3, 6-10: Brown and Rainer Live
Stripping White Oak's Celebrity from its Integrity

Flash Review, 6-9: Lulu's Back in Town; Where's Lulu?
Looking for Lulu with Rosa Mei

Flash Review, 6-8: Music and Muse
Finally, a Glimmer in the Diamond Project from Christopher d'Amboise

Flash Review 1, 6-7: Mood Swings. Video Clip!
At Parsons, Surprises, Pleasant and Unpleasant

Flash Review 2, 6-7: The Aurul Muse
Getting the Music Connection at City Ballet

Flash Report, 6-7: Cunningham Donates Archives to Library. Photos!
"It Goes from One Misadventure to Another"

Flash Review 1, 6-5: Direct from the Heart
Keeping Up With Jones's Vision Quest

Flash Review 2, 6-5: Sophisticated Duende
Soler and Romero up the Ante

Flash Review 3, 6-5: Excessories to the Dance
Jasperse Jousts with the Body Dance

Flash Review, 6-3: Awash in Boston Dance
Beantown Crew in the House at St. Mark's

Flash Review 1, 6-2: Relationships, Shallow and Wise
When a Body Meets a Body at NYCB

Flash Review 2, 6-2: What's Black and White and Re[a]d All Over?
Video Clip!
Muller Lets Dancers Shine as Choreographers in Program B

Flash Review 3, 6-2: Making 'Contact'
Stroman's Social Dance

Flash Review, 6-1: Short 'n Sexy at the Flea
Lisa LeAnn & Terry Dean put on a (really swell) Dance Show!

May 2000

Flash Review 1, 5-31: The Return of the Bolshoi
An Amazing Ananiashvili, but the Men Steal the Show

Flash Review 2, 5-31: Whacking with Jennifer. Video Clip!
In the End, Muller Leaves Me Feeling Nothing

Flash Commentary 1, 5-30: Get With the Program
ABT and the Importance of Being Accurate

Flash Commentary 2, 5-30: All the News That's Bad We Print
The NY Times Throws a Pity Party for Dance

Flash Review 1, 5-29: A Balanchine Tour
...And a City Ballet Tour-de-force

Flash Review 2, 5-29: Deep-Dish Petri
Touring the Avant-Garde-Arama Terrain at P.S.

Flash Report, 5-27: Graham in Turmoil
Seasons Cancelled, Union Suing

Flash Review, 5-26: I Have a Dream
DTH + NYCB = A Real American Ballet Company

Flash Review, 5-25: Turn the Lights on and Dance
Darkness in Progress at The Kitchen

Flash Forum, 5-25: Corpus Displayum
A Dialogue on the Power of Sex

Flash Review 1, 5-24: Heating Up New York
Palpable Warmth at Ailey School Concert

Flash Review 2, 5-24: Burning Brazilian
DanceBrazil Makes My Thighs Burn

Flash Report, 5-23: Saving the Dance
Celebrating 60 Years of Preserving the Art

Flash Review, 5-23: A Regal Farewell
Strasberg Goes Out on Top

Flash Review, 5-22: Love, Betrayal, & Bowling
Cast Gives Hultman Premiere the 'Trophy'

Flash Review 1, 5-20: Shemad
Women Bearing Demons at P.S. 122

Flash Review 2, 5-20: The Throwback
Pearl Lang's Classic Themes

Flash Review 1, 5-19: Joyce Soho presents

Flash Review 2, 5-19: San Francisco Ballet School Student Showcase

Flash Review 3, 5-19: The 58 Group

Flash Review 1, 5-17: Adults, Dancing. Video clip!
Monte Probes, Brown Misses

Flash Review 2, 5-17: I am Not Seduced
Michael Doesn't Know Who He is, Zioe Wants to Sing like a Bird, Andrew Wants to Hold his Lover in His Arms, T. Wants to Start a Whole New Life, and I Want to Run Screaming into the Oncoming Traffic on East 71st Street

Flash Review 1, 5-16: Juilliard in Trouble
Or, Where's the Adagio at Graduation Concert?

Flash Review 2, 5-16: Looking for Mr. Black and Mr. Beige
Blankert Casts Spell on Male Hunt-and-Peck

Flash Review, 5-15: Transformation
Hunkering Down with Sean at the Church

Flash Review 1, 5-13: Discovery
At Joyce Soho, a Choreographer is Born

Flash Review 2, 5-13: Alert at the Ballet
Crackling With Debuts at the State

Flash Review 3, 5-13: Falderal Fairyland
But We Love the Divine Miss Ashley

Flash Review, 5-12: Boy in Babeland
Donohue's Righteous Dance

Flash Review 5-10, Designing Woman
New Steps from Trisha Brown

Flash Review 1, 5-9: Ghosts
Resurrecting the Joffrey in Manhattan

Flash Review 2, 5-9: The Return of Jill Johnston
Our Man in Flat Iron Sees Anthony Through Her Eyes

Flash Review 1, 5-8: Ole! Ole!
Amaya and Co. Set the Heart Ticking

Flash Review 2, 5-8: Celebrating Bartok's Roots
Muzsikas Traces Bartok in Dance and Music

Flash Review Revisited: When New Means New
The Miraculous Mandarin, RIP

Flash Review 1, 5-6: Dances for Grownups
Growing Older with Buglisi-Foreman

Flash Review 2, 5-6: Spring Celebration
Ringing in the Season with Nai-Ni Chen

Flash Review 1, 5-5: Grrrrls, Grrrls, Grrrls
"$Shot" & "Foxhole" & Female Sexual Identity

Flash Review 2, 5-5: Blending
Mixing it up with Sean Curran

Flash Review 1, 5-4: The Dancers' Burden
Carrying Tomasson's R&J at S.F. Ballet

Flash Review 2, 5-4: Tears for the Ballet
Why Peter Martins Makes Me Weep

Flash Review 3, 5-4: Celebrating Twentieth Century Dance
Misha & More at Martha at Mother

Flash Review 1, 5-3: A Dream-Upon-Awakening. Video clip!
Cracking Trisha Brown's Code

Flash Review 2, 5-3: Dreaming of Tchaikovsky
Eifman Probes His Mystery in SanFran

Flash Review 1, 5-1: So Why Don't They Clap?
Technical Excellence, Audience Apathy at NYCB

Flash Review 2, 5-1: Grrrrls Empowered
Choreographers in the Middle at Studio 5-2

April 2000

Flash Review 1, 4-29: Stuffed
New Stuff at P.S. Bats .500

Flash Review 2, 4-29: Pointless from 'eternity'
Holy Body Tattoo Fails to Leave its Mark

Flash Review 1, 4-28: Transformation
Liederbach: The Best Night of Dance I've Reviewed All Year

Flash Review 2, 4-28: Double-teamed
Dendy, Shapiro & Smith Face the Music and Dance

Flash Review 3, 4-28: Awoken by 'Beauty'
BalletMet ends big with Sleeping Beauty

Flash Review, 4-27: 'Storming Heaven'
Revolutionary Dancing With Silvers

Flash Review, 4-26: Fire
Singed by Divas at Lincoln Center

Flash Diary, 4-25: An Insider Fan's Notes
Or: A Day in the Life of the Dance Capitol of the World

Flash Review 2, 4-25: Windows Into the Humane
CIE. 2 in 1 with NYC 3 at DTW

Flash Review 1, 4-22: Me and Mr. Jones
Bill T. Struts His Psyche at the Shubert

Flash Review 2, 4-22: Uncommon 'Sense'
Submerged with Red Dive at Soto Velez

Flash Review 1, 4-21: Van Gogh Haystacks
Chouinard Takes On This Wierd Crazy World

Flash Review 2, 4-21: "The Art Bosses"
TV's Take on DTW's Fresh Tracks

Flash Review, 4-20: Over the Top
Hooked by Valeska at Joyce Soho

Flash Review, 4-19: "What's Dachau?"
Passing Over With Pilobolus

Flash Review, 4-18: Slow Down, I Move too Fast
The World's Oldest Novel at the Kaye

Flash Review 1, 4-17: Smile, Now!
"Home Made" Dances from Hubbard St.

Flash Review 2, 4-17: Reflections on the Lighting
Refracting with Zawerucha and Fritz

Flash Review, 4-16: Haunted
Ghosts & Gods from Fuchs & Gonzales

Flash Review 1, 4-15: Lucia's Legacy
Passing Makes Hawkins Season End of an Era

Flash Review 2, 4-15: Simplicity
Do Jump! Knocks at New Victory's Door

Flash Review 1, 4-14: The Charisma Factor
Partner Dancing with Neumann's Own at P.S.

Flash Review 2, 4-14: Filled With Poetry
Swanson's Dance Works For Me!

Flash Review, 4-12: Carmen, De-fanged
Folkoperan Fails to Move at BAM

Flash Review, 4-11: Words on Dance
Even Verdy Can't Quite Ignite Helgi

Flash Review 1, 4-10: Blister Me
Michelson & Muz Raise the Stakes

Flash Review 2, 4-10: Hi Everybody!
O'Connor's Grinning Biopsy of America

Flash Review 3, 4-10: How to Dance
Lessons from Soto in Chicago

Flash Review, 4-9: Ecstasy Without Words
Tracing LINES in San Francisco

Flash Review 1, 4-8: True Confessions
Letting it All Hang Out at St. Mark's

Flash Review 2, 4-8: Strength in Simplicity
Simple Fancy Dancing from the Lakota Sioux

Flash Review, 4-7: The Kitchen Sink
Heron Straddles 'Water' at P.S. 122

Flash Review, 4-5: Horsin' Around
Straight From the Dancer's Mouth

Flash Haiku, 4-4: Nohgaku-za
"The Fulling Block" at the Metropolitan Museum

Flash Review 1, 4-3: Getting Piazzolla
A New Respect for Astor at a New Dance Space

Flash Review 2, 4-3: McKenzie's "Swan Lake"
ABT's New "Swan Lake" Takes Off

Flash Review 3, 4-3: Muscle Without Weight
Neo Labos Neo-Limited at Columbia

March 2000

Flash Extra! 3-31: Dancers as Dancemakers
Discovering S.F. Ballet's Native Choreographers

Flash Review 1, 3-31: Gender Gap Noodling
Rosy-colored Sex Roles at Columbia College

Flash Review 2, 3-31: Gender Gap Noodling, Too
Sex-role Reversal at P.S. 122

Flash Review 3, 3-31: Return to Innocence, III
Finding the Child Inside the Audience at the New Victory

Flash Review, 3-29: Janis Brenner: Lover or Loser?
From rat-tat-tat to cutesie-poo at the Y

Flash Report, 3-28: Celebrity Dance Match
Misha Meets Rainer to Respond to AIDS

Flash Review, 3-27: Circus at the Joffrey
Four-ring Ballet in Chicago

Flash Restaurant Review, 3-25: Smorgasbord at The Kitchen
Dining with Atlas, Klucevsek & Company

Flash Review, 3-24: Alienation
"Metamorphosis" Fails to Move at La MaMa

Flash Review, 3-23: Pick up the Pieces
DKK's 'Happiness' Collection at the Y

Flash Review, 3-22: Good Eliot, Bad Eliot
Will the Real Feld Please Stand Up?

Flash Review 1, 3-20: Sevilla in San Francisco
Yaelisa Brings Spain to the Mission

Flash Review 2, 3-20: Live and on Tape
Live history, Canned Music from the Joffrey

Flash Review 1, 3-18: Fusion
Mixing it Up with Trinity at the New Victory

Flash Review 2, 3-18: The Nightclub of His Imagination
Butoh Painting With Kasai

Flash Review 1, 3-17: Sinister Slapstick
Rubbing Up Against Garfield at the Y

Flash Review 2, 3-17: Aflame!
Interpreting With Ms. Gillis at the Joyce

Flash Review 3-16: Return to Innocence, II
Dewy-eyed Over Dance with NCSA's Pluck Project

Flash Review 3-13: Hopeful and Morose
Kloppenberg Dance: Good News and Bad News

Flash Review 3-11: Of Sweat Patterns and Gender Chances
Merce and the Meaning of Chance

Flash Review 1, 3-10: Money for Something
'Mandinka' in Michigan

Flash Review 2, 3-10: Prisons
Incarcerated with Mabou Mines at P.S. 122

Flash Review, 3-8: Breathless for the Joyce
A Theater Where You Can SEE Dance

Flash Preview, 3-7: Race Matters
Pittsburgh Turns Ballet Indigo

Flash Review 1, 3-6: Suffering and Smiling
Seeing the Light at Symphony Space

Flash Review 2, 3-6: Celebrating Life
Ramos Dance Shows How at Cunningham

Flash Review 3, 3-6: Worshipping the Dance
At Church With Limon

Flash Review, 3-4: The Old Master
An Inside/Outside Look at Taylor

Flash Review 1, 3-3: Ride the College Dance Loop
Barnard Dances Back to the Future

Flash Review 2, 3-3: Taylor Manifesto
Damnable Aplomb at City Center

Flash Review 3, 3-3: Balloon! Balloon!
Boy-Balloon Love at the New Victory

Flash Review 1, 3-2: Art for Art's Sake
Taylor Gives a Schooling

Flash Review 2, 3-2: Merce, Dancing
Tears for Merce & More at Martha at Mother

February 2000

Flash Obituary, 2-29: The Importance of Being Ofra Haza
She Showed Me How to Dance

Flash Review 1 2-28: Squonk Shrunk
When Bigger is not Always Better

Flash Review 2, 2-28: Broadway Dance Un-shrunk
Dendy Makes Broadway Dance Bigger

Flash Review 3, 2-28: Over-40 Plentitude
No Pigeonholing Dancers Over 40

Flash Review 4, 2-28: Craving Novelty
Washington Ballet Pleasing and Soporific

Subject: Flash Review, 2-25: Symmetry Rules
Walzing in Time With City Ballet

Flash Review, 2-23: Shall We Dance WITH THE MUSIC?
Divorce, New York City Ballet Style

Flash Review 2, 2-21: Chasing Antigone
Josa-Jones Dreams the Myth in Chicago

Flash Review 1, 2-21: Unclear Vision
'Big Dance,' Murky Art at DTW

Flash Review, 2-17: Oh, Wheel of Dance
Merry-go-Colker at the Joyce

Flash Review 1, 2-15: A Smorgasbord of Sex
Investigating the Erotic at Judson

Flash Review 2, 2-15: Pas de Deux Love
Making Contact With the Stars at the NY State

Flash Review, 2-12: Grass/Bird/Rodeo
Carlson Rounds 'Em Up at P.S. 122

Flash Review 1, 2-11: But First, a Bullfight
The Eisenstein Connection: Que Viva Kirstein!

Flash Review 2, 2-11: Is Youth Wasted On the Young?
Not on Jeune Ballet!

Flash Review 3, 2-11: Juice and Jouissance
Hearts Leap Into Throats at St. Mark's

Flash Review 1, 2-10: Shared Experience
Dance and Theater Share Center Stage in "Jane Eyre" at BAM

Flash Review 2, 2-10: The Molissa Medley
Fenley Meditates on Gesture Texture

Flash Review, 2-9: Pseudo-Masochism
High Art Chasm at the Joyce

Flash Review, 2-7: Rhythmic Understanding
Nicoll and Oreck Stay Within Limits at St. Mark's

Flash Review, 2-5: Wondrously Disparate
Triple Play Concept Exciting and Confusing

Flash Review 2, 2-4: Stop That Train, I Want to Get On
A 'Triple Play' at Symphony Space

Flash Review 1, 2-4: The Incredible Shrinking Media
What if You Held a U.S. Debut and Nobody Came?

Flash Review, 2-2: The Unbearable Lightness of Lingering
Floating with Colorado Ballet at the Joyce

January 2000

Flash Review, 1-28: Munisterians
Show Not Tell With Munisteri at P.S. 122

Flash Review, 1-26 : Everybody Dance Now
Mirror Mirror With Goldhuber & Latsky at Joyce

Flash Review, 1-24: Monkeying Around
Monkeying Around Peking-style at Town Hall

Flash Review, 1-23: Tharp Does it Again!
Tharp Gives NYCB a Full to Bursting Premiere

Flash Review 3, 1-22: El Amor Greco
Greco, Velasco Bring Flamenco to Eugene

Flash Review 2, 1-22: The Art of Ballet
Schooling from the Masters at Film Fest

Flash Review, 1-22: Emotional Roller-Coaster
Costa Gets at CORE Emotions at the Bridge

Flash Review 2, 1-20: Death Go-lightly
Pearson/Widrig Look Into the "HereAfter" at the Joyce

Flash Review, 1-20: Trolling With Pinto
At The Kitchen, It's a Small World After All

Flash Review, 1-19: Stop This Train, I Want to Get Off
Chuma's Obscure Journey at the Joyce

Flash Review, 1-17: Teenagers Dancing in the Bedroom
Social Hour With Oberfelder at New Dixon Digs

Flash ALARM, 1-16: Robbins is Burning
Is Jerome Robbins's Legacy Going Up in Flames at
New York City Ballet?

Flash Review, 1-15: Ballet Noir
If You See Only One Dance Film All Year,
See "La Mort du Cygne"

Flash Review 2, 1-15: Playing with FOO
Dean Street Operates on Found Sounds at P.S. 122

Flash Review, 1-15: What Talent and
Support Can Do-ooh-ooh

Stuttgart Tour Shows what International Talent and
Local Support Can Do

Flash APAP Review P.S.
For Women, Dance is Still Perceived as Not a Job

Flash APAP Review, 1-13: Something's Happening Here
APAP Verdict: State of the Art, 2000: All Killa, No Filla

Flash Review 2, 1-12: Meet the REAL Mr. Music
Morris at the New Victory Shows it's STILL The Music

Flash Review, 1-12: Meet Mr. Music
33 Fainting Spells But No One Choreographic Choice at the Joyce

Flash Review, 1-10: In Whoville with Sarah Skaggs
Skaggs's "Paradise" Tears Down the Wall Between Performers and Audience

Flash Alert, 1-10: NPR Doesn't Heart Dance
Public Radio is no exception from the Media's Blackout on Dance

Flash Review 3, 1-8: Ripening Repetition
David Grenke Crafts High-quality Dance at Pace

Flash Review, 1-8: Seeing Balanchine, Watching Whelan
Some Thoughts on Balanchine and
Wendy Whelan's Double Smash

1-5-00: I Got the Music in Me
NYCB's Darci Kistler proves that, It's the Music, Stupid.

December, 1999


12-31-99: Out With the Old and a Tie for Richard

12-30-99: Flash Quote
12-29-99: Ballet Tech

12-19-99: Manifesto and Murray Louis
12-18-99: Peridance Ensemble
12-18-99: PS122—New Stuff
12-16-99 Alvin Ailey—Change
12-13-99: Millenial Arts—Messiah
12-13-99 David Gordon
12-11-99: Alvin Ailey—Fever Swamp

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