JUSTIN PECK with Ryan Wenzel
by Ryan WenzelDance
When New York City Ballet announced last year that it had commissioned Justin Peck, a then-24-year-old dancer in its corps de ballet who had only ever made dances in workshops and pick-up performances, to create two new ballets for the company, the audience's curiosity was piqued. Hopes were high that NYCB had found a fresh talent to add new ballets to its incomparable repertory.
Bring in Da Boise
by Ryan WenzelDance
Like generations of choreographers, Trey McIntyre has set ballets to scores by Chopin, Tchaikovsky, and Stravinsky. Yet the McIntyre that New York audiences have gotten to know in 2012 is not afraid to embrace more colloquial music.
ELIZABETH STREB: An Introduction
by Nancy DalvaDance
Clang! Bound! Rebound! The wall is the floor! Slam! Gravity is negotiable by force! Elizabeth Streb was fierce before it was a fashionable adjective, and she revealed all of the exactions dance art used to strive to conceal (and often still does) before Post-Post-Modernism arrived with its underpants as outerwear.
KYLE ABRAHAM with Ryan Wenzel
by Ryan WenzelDance
Kyle Abraham has been busy. In early November, the Pittsburgh-born choreographer was named the 2012-2014 New York Live Arts Resident, and his company, Abraham.In.Motion, premiered Abraham’s Pavement at the Harlem Stage Gatehouse.
