Charmaine Warren
  • Home
    • About Me
  • Up Next
  • Dance
    • Dance/Education
    • Dance/Performances
  • Yoga
    • Yoga/Classes
    • Yoga/Workshops
  • Consulting
  • Writing
  • Blogspot
  • Suggested Links
  • Contact Me

The Joyce + New Yorkers welcome NDT after a decade!

4/17/2013

0 Comments

 
Picture
Monica Bill Barnes and Anna Bass
A warm welcome was given to the Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT) on their return to the US after nearly a decade! The Joyce Theater’s Gala on April 10 featured NDT but also some locals: Monica Bill Barnes & Company, Wendy Whelan and Desmond Richardson, and some other out-of-towners, the Lyon Opera Ballet. Barnes’ humor comes to life as the opener with an excerpt of Luster (2012) a hilarious duet danced by Barnes and Anna Bass that shows the travel from The Joyce Theater downtown (a filmed footage of the subway ride transporting a huge replica of the stage at The Joyce), uptown to the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center.  Ahhh the laughs that these ladies garnered as they finally lugged their necessary prop to the stage, and Tina Turner’s funky signature “Rolling on the River” fills the air. The duo, in sparkly dresses matches Turner’s intensity with jabbing, playful and sure-footed
movements. Whelan and Richardson followed with Dwight Rhoden’s Charter (2012), a lovely work that shows Richardson ease and Whelan questioning Rhoden’s style.  Kudos to the Nicholas Payton Quartet for their jazz sharing which accompanied Charter!  The Lyon Opera Ballet followed with more live music (Johann Sebastian
  Bach this time) and Sarabande (2009) a playful quartet for men in seven distinctly different sections.  NDT’s hilarious Sh-Boom!  (2000) choreographed by Sol Leon (resident choreographer) and Paul Lightfoot (artistic directors) with section after section of standout performances by a cast of talented folks, closed the evening.  Confetti with the words “Life Could Be A Dream” (words from the title of the song used for Sh-Boom!)
fell from the ceiling as the dancing finished.   A warm welcome in deed. 


0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Never miss a post
    Your email address:*
    Please enter all required fields
    Correct invalid entries
    Please choose a color:

    Categories

    All
    Articles
    Audition
    Grants
    Intensives
    Interviews
    Lecture
    News
    Opportunities
    Performance Calendars
    Positions
    Previews
    Video Clips
    What I Saw
    Workshops

    Archives

    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012
    November 2012
    October 2012
    September 2012
    August 2012
    July 2012
    May 2012

    RSS Feed

    My LinkedIn Profile

    Author

    I am a performer, historian, consultant and dance writer. I am a Empire State College's online program Center for Distance Learning.  I am also a former faculty member at The Ailey School and the Alvin Ailey/Fordham University dance major program, Hunter College, Sarah Lawrence College (Guest), Kean University and The Joffrey Ballet School's Jazz and Contemporary Trainee Program.  I write on dance for The Amsterdam News, Dance Magazine and various publications.  Click below to read more about me at my home page - "About Me."

    "About Me"
Proudly powered by Weebly