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KINGS of the DANCE 2011 Goes LITE
Published: 10/21/2011 by Steven Woodruff in Reviews
Kings of the Dance brought the current version of its ongoing dance franchise to Segerstrom Center for the Arts in a stripped down program of both old and new works.Making a hard turn away from the last Ardani Artists production, Reflections ,this Kings while offering spectacular dancers felt underwhelming in its choreography and staging.The current program opened earlier in October in Moscow.It feartures David Hallberg,Marcelo Gomes,Ivan Vasiliev,G. Coté and Denis Matvienko and works by Duato.
TANGO BUENOS AIRES Tango Fuego y Pasion
Published: 01/17/2011 by Steven Woodruff in Articles
Tango and Buenos Aires. No other dance and place are so inextricably bound together or so readily conjure up an iconic ethos. That sensibility was readily on display for full houses at the Segerstrom Center this week with TANGO BUENOS AIRES.
Of strikes and media ignorance – when politics kill art.
Published: 10/08/2010 by Angela Vadori in Articles
Day 12 of the strike of the prestigious Ballet Company of Teatro Colón.
Glorya Kaufman Presents dance at the music center CORELLA BALLET CASTILLA y LEON
Published: 11/07/2010 by Steven Wodruff in Reviews
Angel Corella\'s youthful classical company, CORELLA BALLET CASTILLA y LEON opened the new season at the Music Center with a generous mixed bill of four ballets.It included the popular SOLEA which Mr. Corella dances with his sister,Carmen Corella.
(0 reviews)Incendio: Sat. October 22nd at 7:30 and Sun. October 23rd at 2:30
Arabian Nights: Sat. January 28th at 7:30
Cinderella: Sat. May 12th at 7:30 and Sun. May 13th at 2:30
Tickets on sale now at the Hult Center Box Office, 541-682-5000
Ballet Nacional de Cuba Don Quixote
Published: 06/27/2011 by Steven Woodruff in Reviews
Ballet Nacional de Cuba brought its Alonso version of Don Q to the Music Center for five performanes and while much of the signature Cuban style was on display this Don Q looked tired and uninspiring.Music by the LA Opera Orchestra and G. Duarte.
Roaratorio Revisits Sights and Sounds of Finnegans Wake
Published: 12/31/2010 by Steven Woodruff in Reviews
(0 reviews)Review of "Roaratorio", Merce Cunningham Dance Company performance from the Legacy Tour performed at Walt Disney Hall, June 4, 2010.This classic Cage/Cunningham collaboration was originally presented as a studio performance. Poor sound hampered the production at Disney Hall.The Legacy Tour revived this work using a German Radio recording for its performances.The piece was performed in Disney Hall. As a concert hall, not a theatrical venue, it duplicated the feeling of a studio performance.
GRUPO CORPO on Dance at the Music Center
Published: 01/30/2011 by Steven Woodruff in Articles
GRUPO CORPO is one of Brazil’s better known contemporary dance companies.Their movement is highly appealing and accessible. Performances feature commissioned scores that draw on all aspects of Brazilian, classical and contemporary music idioms.
KIBBUTZ contemporary dance company In InfraRed
Published: 02/22/2011 by Steven Woodruff in Articles
To say that the performance of InfraRed on Saturday at the Luckman Theater was a dance concert would be seriously underestimating the enormity of what took place there.What follows is the review of InfraRed
by Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Co.Terrific.
WORKS by CUNNINGHAM, WHEELDON ACCOMPANY a NEW FIREBIRD
Published: 04/01/2012 by Steven Woodruff in Reviews
American Ballet Theatre’s repertory program at Segerstrom Center for the Arts lets us consider three ways in which music informs dance. In Merce Cunningham’s DUETS from 1980, the music (in this instance John Cage’s score for electronic sounds and percussion titled, Improvisations III) and the choreography are in and amiable standoff. In Thirteen Diversions the score charts a course for an abstract sequence of small and large ensembles and in FIREBIIRD, the episodic score tells a story.