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Flash Review 1, 1-23: Galvanized
Rub-a-dub-dub, SB Dance in a Tub

By Gus Solomons jr
Copyright 2004 Gus Solomons jr

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NEW YORK -- By the time SB Dance's "The Bucket" (presented at Williamsburg Arts NeXus, January 16-18) ends, you can't imagine anything else three people could do with metal buckets, an oval galvanized tub, and about a ton of ping-pong balls. The conceiver of this fascinating work, Stephen Brown, and his two creating and performing collaborators, Christine Hasegawa and Liberty Valentine, who live and work in Salt Lake City, have created a weird, provocative stream of imagery that smudges the line between dance and theater. Click here for the full review...

 

Flash Review 2, 1-23: 'Off' is ON
Into the Way-back and Way-out Machine with Danceoff

By Maura Nguyen Donohue
Copyright 2004 Maura Nguyen Donohue

NEW YORK -- Once again, Katie Workum and Terry Dean Bartlett managed to compile a collection of short and sweet gems for Danceoff!, seen in its latest edition January 15 at Symphony Space's Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater. Hell, it was worth the trip just to see Bartlett shake his thing in a 1985 video choreographed by Miss Kate (his hometown dance teacher) and its subsequent historical recreation by Bartlett, Workum and Leigh Garrett. Click here for the full review...

Paris Journal, 1-23: Identity Crisis
Lifting the Veil, Veiling the Dance

By Paul Ben-Itzak
Copyright 2004 The Dance Insider

PARIS -- These are confusing times for the Republique, currently contemplating a law which, by the latest reports, could ban not just the veil from the French classroom but the turban, the beard, the bandana, and any other sign that could possibly be interpreted as or even substituted for a "visible" or "ostentatious" (the legislators are arguing over which term to use) demonstration of one's religion in a country where most of the public holidays celebrate Christian occasions. Some Muslim proponents of the ban (most notably the Imam of Marseille) argue that there's nothing in the Koran which dictates women should wear the veil, a contention which, if true, would seem to exempt the veil from a ban targeting religious symbols. The Sikhs -- a French community of which apparently everyone in the government was unaware until they started speaking up against this proposed law -- argue that they should be allowed to keep their turbans, because the turbans themselves are not religiously significant, but are worn to veil their hair, which is. A cartoon by Willem in yesterday's Liberation summed up the confusion at its ludicrous best: Before a screaming teacher with electrified hair who's taken refuge on top of a blackboard stands a bow-tied girl with a beard ("But it's a lay-beard!"), a baggy-pantsed boy with a bandana over his chin ("I wear a veil to hide my beard."), a pimply teen ('It's a form of Jewish acne, and I want to protect it!"), a turbaned boy in short pants ("I am not Sikh, I am wounded."), and a tall young man clad only in a loincloth and bandana with his arms akimbo, crucifixion-like, as he insists, "Me, wearing a cross? Where?" Elsewhere on the cultural terrain, it seems that a heretofore under-publicized aspect of the new regime for France's Intermittent (or freelance) performing artists and technicians is that the benefit reductions include the elimination of maternity leave, causing one actor to remark, "It's so that artists can't reproduce."

Countering the official Xenophobia, we have the continuing and generally admirable efforts of theaters to expose French audiences to other cultures. At the Theatre de la Bastille, this has taken the form of a sort of mini-festival, "Complicites portugaises." It began charmingly, with shared concerts by Vera Mantero and Joao Fiadeiro, two giants on the Portuguese contemporary scene, both of whom have significant international profiles as well. I was charmed by the concert I saw and reviewed in November, but looking back after catching a second entry, Tiago Guedes's "A solo," January 12, perhaps I should have been alarmed. Click here for the full review...

Flash Review 1, 1-20: The Whisper in the Wilderness
Waltzing and Listening with Margie Gillis

By Angela Jones
Copyright 2004 Angela Jones

Flash Review 2, 1-20: ADHD Dance
Playing Mix 'n' Match with Munisteri

By Susan Yung
Copyright 2004 Susan Yung

Flash Review 3, 1-20: Alone Together
Peter Pucci Picks a Pack of Perfect Partners

By Douglas Frank
Copyright 2004 Douglas Frank

Flash Review 1, 1-14: The Bard, but Better
Gordon Spins Shakespeare

By Gus Solomons jr
Copyright 2004 Gus Solomons jr

Flash Review 2, 1-14: Faint Thunder
'Ivan,' Seen Through the Eyes of Noverre, at the Paris Opera Ballet

By Katharine Kanter
Copyright 2004 Katharine Kanter

Flash Review 3, 1-14: My One and Not Only
Appaix has Gotta Dance, And Sing, and Mug, and....

By Melanie Rios
Copyright 2004 Melanie Rios

Flash News, 1-12: APAP Update
APAP Bars Dance Insider from Members Conference

By Paul Ben-Itzak
Copyright 2004 The Dance Insider

The Buzz, 1-12: Miller Time
Unembracing APAP's "New Era"

By Paul Ben-Itzak
Copyright 2004 The Dance Insider

Flash Review 1, 1-9: Altogether Out of the Past
John Kelly's 'Skin' Games

By Susan Yung
Copyright 2004 Susan Yung

Flash Review 2, 1-9: Not Altogether Different
Space Cadets & Other States of Beings from Stenn & Co.

By Gus Solomons jr
Copyright 2004 Gus Solomons jr

In Memorium, 1-6: The Teacher, the Dancer
Farewell to Svetlana Afanasieva & Alan Eto

By Aimee Ts’ao & Fiona Marcotty
Copyright 2004 Aimee Ts’ao & Fiona Marcotty

Flash Review, 1-6: Walkabout
The Obscured Objects of Brice Leroux

By Melanie Rios
Copyrigt 2004 Melanie Rios

The Buzz, 1-6: Boxed-out
Bolshoi Bars Volochkova from Paris Tour; Altogether Outside of the Box; Mathew Cussick's Dream Deferred

By Paul Ben-Itzak
Copyright 2004 The Dance Insider

Flash Review 1, 12-30: Nouvelle Noix
Tulsa Revises a Christmas Classic, a la mode Parisian

By Alicia Chesser
Copyright 2003 Alicia Chesser

Flash Review 2, 12-30: Downtown Decoys
Trisha Brown, and Liebeslieder Walzing, at the Paris Opera Ballet

By Paul Ben-Itzak
Copyright 2003 The Dance Insider

Flash Review 1, 12-19: Unaccustomed Fit
Plenty in Nothing from Laurent Pichaud & Co.

By Melanie Rios
Copyright 2003 Melanie Rios

Flash Review Journal, 12-19: Dancers on Film
The Menagerie Reflects; Rizzo Reduces; Toumanova at the Front

By Paul Ben-Itzak
Copyright 2003 The Dance Insider

Flash Review 3, 12-19: The Bone Orchard
Evans's "When Day Became Night" Can Still Grow

By Aimee Ts’ao
Copyright 2003 Aimee Ts’ao

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