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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
JACK FERVER at ADI by Luella Christopher
THIS ROOM IS FULL UP : SO SAY AUTHOR GENET AND JACK FERVER American Dance Institute Rockville, Maryland Feb. 20-21, 2015 By Luella Christopher, Ph.D. Jack Ferver wants his audience to squirm, choreographer and colleague […]
ROSY SIMAS DANSE at Dance Place by Luella Christopher
ROSY SIMAS DANSE PAYS TRIBUTE TO SENECA ANCESTORS Dance Place Washington, D.C. April 18-19, 2015 By Luella Christopher, Ph.D. “We Wait in the Darkness” by Rosy Simas is tender, wracked with catastrophe and yet life-affirming. […]
AMERICAN DANCE INSTITUTE 2014 FALL SEASON HIGHLIGHTS by Luella Christopher
AMERICAN DANCE INSTITUTE 2014 FALL SEASON HIGHLIGHTS By Luella Christopher, Ph.D.* Copyright © 2015 BALLET ADI on Nov. 21-22 offered the purest balletic and most polished of American Dance Institute’s 2014 fall offerings in Rockville, […]