This past Wednesday night’s performance at Wolf Trap’s Filene Center was a historic event. John Butler’s “Carmina Burana” premiered in 1959. Original cast member and icon of Amer... Read more
Synetic Theater’s “Cyrano de Bergerac” is a gloriously silly, but tragic, romp based loosely on Edmond Rostand’s play of the same name which follows the life of Cyrano de Bergerac, the soldi... Read more
“Finding Home: Dance Journeys,” part of the 2023 Capital Fringe Festival at the DCJCC’s Cafritz Hall, featured works by choreographers Giselle Ruzany, Kyoko Fujimoto, Sylvana Chr... Read more
Perhaps it is an unfair criticism of a performance that is meant to showcase the foundations and history of one of the oldest dance companies in America, but when you’re putting together a p... Read more
This past weekend’s “Kinetic Crossings” at Baltimore Theater Project was a visual feast, featuring performances by Baltimore-based Deep Vision Dance Company and Japanese choreogr... Read more
And then there was one. In 2015, The Atlantic published an article called “The Death Of The American Dance Critic.” It lamented the fact that, with Gia Kourlas’ departure from Ti... Read more
Ballet Theater of Maryland’s “Momentum: A Mixed Bill” was a full evening of dance. It featured six performances by five choreographers—Lindsey Bell, Roman Mykyta, Ashley Taylor, Karissa Kral... Read more
Rhizome DC is one of those venues that, even if you’ve been there before, feels like a secret. From the outside it looks like a Shel Silverstein illustration, an old house sketched in by the... Read more
Gabriel Mata’s performance at Dance Loft on 14 was one of those performances that doesn’t end when you walk out of the theater; you have to sit with his work and let the ideas marinate. Mata... Read more
This Friday and Saturday, Dance Loft on 14 presents a deeper look into past, present, and future dance works of D.C.-based artist, Gabriel Mata. Gabriel Mata (pronounced: gah-bryehl mah-tah)... Read more