Musical monotony needn’t be the rule, but at Spring to Dance, it’s a trend
Lauren Warnecke ST. LOUIS, MO — It’s not a new trend. Contemporary dance has shared a kinship with minimalistic music for decades. As an undergraduate dance major around the turn of the…
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Contemporary is king on first night of Spring to Dance
ST. LOUIS, MO — With nightly performances through Saturday at the Touhill Performing Arts Center, the annual Spring to Dance festival is slowly building to a boil, spending much of…
International dancewear brand Wear Moi finds a home in Chicago
CHICAGO — Since its humble beginnings in 1992, husband and wife business owners Christophe Ridet and Elisabeth Miegge-Ridet built their line of dance apparel called Wear Moi, going from custom…
Opposites attract in Hedwig’s ‘Sea Level’ at Ruth Page
CHICAGO — The two pieces which make up Hedwig Dances’s spring series are positioned as opposites. The evening, called Sea Level: Above and Below, boasts world premieres by company members…
Saturday at the Epic Center: Beware the dance echo chamber — come to RAD Fest
KALAMAZOO, MI — In 2017, Fox News dropped the slogan “Fair and Balanced.” They claimed it was because the motto had been written by its dismissed chairman Roger Ailes, swapping…
RAD Fest’s first night of short works puts American gender and race politics front and center
KALAMAZOO, MI — Two rows of chairs form a semi-circle around a projection screen hung at the front of the Judy Joliffe Theater. A third ring of audience members stands…
Long works program a rare chance to see festival dances breathe
KALAMAZOO, MI — It is often the case that the dance festival setting provides a broad, but shallow view of an artist’s work. It’s an understandably impossible conundrum; festival organizers…
Tradition is a good thing — but Bolshoi’s ‘Bayadère’ is out of touch
CHICAGO — With Bolshoi in Cinema, American audiences get the opportunity to witness live performances from the Bolshoi Theatre, simulcast to U.S. movie houses approximately every other month. I first…
Trans Dancer Profiles: Sam Virgilio
Guest Contributors CHICAGO — When I started writing for Art Intercepts, I knew I wanted to expand my portion of this platform to include other trans voices. I can talk all day…
Rewriting the narrative to put women choreographers and dance leaders center stage
In a letter dated January 1, 2018, Peter Martins stepped down from his post as artistic director of the New York City Ballet (NYCB) and head of the School of…