Tag: Luella Christopher
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CHRIS SCHLICHTING at ADI BY LUELLA CHRISTOPHER
A GENTLY VISCERAL “STRIPE TEASE” BY CHRIS SCHLICHTING By Luella Christopher, Ph.D. American Dance Institute Rockville, Md. October 2-3, 2015 Life-affirming choreography can be elusive in the Millennium. Chaos and conflict predominate to such an extent that audiences leave the theater feeling like deflated balloons. Not so with Minneapolis-based Chris Schlichting, whose choreography in “Stripe…
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JILLIAN PEÑA AT ADI BY LUELLA CHRISTOPHER
SIBLINGS, LOVERS, RIVALS, DOLLS OR FAIRY TALE CHARACTERS? JILLIAN PEÑA’S DOPPLEGANGERS AT ADI By Luella Christopher, Ph.D. American Dance Institute, Rockville, Md. September 11 and 12, 2015 Jillian Peña’s “Polly Pocket Expansion Pack” signifies a German-made toy for children, a kind of doll-house. That’s all audience members know while taking their seats before a brightly…
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Christopher K. Morgan & Artists’s LIMITED VISIBILITY at ADI BY LUELLA CHRISTOPHER
CHRISTOPHER K. MORGAN AND ARTISTS IN A STUNNING “LIMITED VISIBILITY” By Luella Christopher, Ph.D. American Dance Institute Rockville, Maryland May 29/30, 2015 Christopher K. Morgan’s new piece is visually dynamic in its simultaneous use of different levels (tables), different types of lighting (especially worklights, as opposed to theater lights), contrast fabrics (all black, then eventually…
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30th ANNIVERSARY WORKS BY URBAN BUSH WOMEN at ADI by Luella Christopher
NOT YOUR TYPICAL DYING SWAN AND OTHER 30th ANNIVERSARY WORKS BY URBAN BUSH WOMEN By Luella Christopher, Ph.D. American Dance Institute Rockville, Maryland April 1718, 2015 “Dark Swan” (2014) is beyond parody and distinctly so. Choreographer Nora Chipaumire, inspired by the Russian masters’s contributions to dance, gives the familiar “Dying Swan” by Michel Fokine a…
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NEIL GREENBERG AND DAVID NEUMANN at ADI by Luella Christopher
NEIL GREENBERG AND DAVID NEUMANN ADVANCED BEGINNER GROUP: INSCRUTABLE PAIR OF MINIMALIST CHOREOGRAPHERS By Luella Christopher, Ph.D. American Dance Institute Rockville, Maryland Nov. 14-15, 2014 and March 27-28, 2015 Difficult to grasp and appreciate such were my initial reactions to two programs in the 2014-15 season at ADI separated by many months. In looking…
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JOANNA KOTZE at ADI by Luella Christopher
JOANNA KOTZE TELLS THE TROUPES TO “FIND YOURSELF HERE” – WITH TILES By Luella Christopher, Ph.D. American Dance Institute Rockville, Maryland April 24-25, 2015 An early “human train” with six shuttling links and a final robotic sequence by visual artist/performer Jonathan Allen during the last third of Joanna Kotze’s new work epitomize the truism that…
