A holiday mash-up for the entire family, The Hip Hop Nutcracker, a contemporary work set to Tchaikovsky’s timeless music, embarks on an international tour on the strength of last December’s sold-out performances of the world premiere at New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) and United Palace of Cultural Arts (UPCA) in New York City. The […]
“First Breath”, a new exhibition of photography by Travis Magee The Frieda and Roy Furman Gallery Film Society of Lincoln Center Beginning 1.31.15 There are these moments among skilled choreography and seasoned performances where you lose yourself. If you happen to be experiencing this, you will most probably hear a gasp or a groan. There […]
I am not versed in dance theory or history, and so when I see a dance performance, the only basis I have for a response is my visceral experience— did I feel the performers connected with me and held my attention? Video on the other hand, is my profession, so I confess that when I’m […]
The Lucky Penny has become a cornerstone of Atlanta’s cutting edge dance and technology. Dearly Departures: A new dance by Blake Beckham and her impeccable motley crew of technicians and performers, at Georgia Tech’s DramaTech Theater, have created yet another night of artistic excellence The little black box theatre, more of a trapezoidal space is […]
Disney’s The Little Mermaid: taking upstage to the extreme What show can pull every redhead in town, under 4 ½ feet tall, out of the woodwork wearing their favorite hues of blue/green sequence? What underwater tale has all the big people singing the 1989 classic music word for word in their seats. Why, The Little […]
It is always a treat to get to spend an afternoon with my children at the Center for Puppetry Arts. I get to explain how “When I was a Kid” we didn’t have any and ALL entertainment at our fingertips, we looked forward to Saturday Mornings and arranged our social schedule around “Muppet Show” night. […]
How do you take the food truck concept to an extreme? Why… make the truck a performance space, of course! Atlanta is becoming a Mecca of experimental movement and Dance Truck made another splash in “The Movement” on June 28th at the Arts Exchange. Their goal, “Bringing Dance to the People”. Imagine a courtyard encircled […]
I found myself a fully engaged part of SECRET’s performance space. Not in a hard brick and mortar sort of way, but as a fluid, transient suggestion that softly defined the parameters in which the performers were confined. February brought an invitation to attend Atlanta’s CORE Performance Company presentation of SECRET at Atlanta Georgia’s Gothic-Tudor style […]
The Atlanta Ballet’s Valentine’s Day offering, Dracula, plunged the audience into an old story given an updated presentation, and a world of evil surrounding people trying to do good. The ballet, by Milwaukee Ballet’s Artistic Director Michael Pink, is based on the 1897 classic Gothic novel by Bram Stoker, and the production did full justice […]
On Saturday, October 27, the Cultural Expressions portion of France-Atlanta 2012 celebrated the end of Elevate, the cultural program that placed temporary art installations in downtown, with a street dance in downtown Atlanta. After all, what is more fleeting than dance?! It was an ending, but also the start of three days of dance events […]
