Rochester kids get moving at the PUSH Pins Performing Arts Camp
Casey Carlsen
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Dance review: RCB’s ‘Summer of Love’
Rochester City Ballet closes its 2016-17 season with an ode to the 50th anniversary of the summer ’67
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Dance review: Garth Fagan home season
Garth Fagan Dance premiered two pieces to an appreciative audience Wednesday night at Nazareth College’s Arts Center during the opening of its 2016 home season. Both pieces — Fagan’s “In Conflict” and Norwood Pennewell’s “A Moderate Cease” — were well-received, albeit different in sensibility. Pennewell’s “A Moderate Cease,” the sixth piece he has choreographed for […]
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Casey reviews PUSH Physical Theatre
PUSH Physical Theatre, the brainchild of artistic directors and founders Darren and Heather Stevenson, has a satisfying repertoire built from the local company’s 16 years in existence, but it’s always exciting to see a new piece. The Fringe audience Saturday night at the School of the Arts’ main stage was shown the world premiere of […]
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MuCCC hosts robust contemporary dance program
Summer in Rochester usually offers audiences little in the way of dance. However, for the third summer in a row, the Multi-Use Community Cultural Center will host a contemporary dance festival. Dances at MuCCC 2016, a festival of contemporary dance, runs from Tuesday, June 21, through Saturday, June 25, and will pull from a wide […]
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Rochester City Ballet finds a new edge with David Palmer
“Ballet on the Edge,” the upcoming Rochester City Ballet program, is notable for two significant reasons: The performance is the company’s first to be choreographed by new Artistic Director David Palmer, and the ballet “Under the Moonlight,” which will have its world premiere, is the first new official work set to David Bowie’s music since […]
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Dance review: PUSH’s “Jekyll and Hyde”
PUSH Physical Theatre’s “Jekyll & Hyde” is an explosive performance that plumbs the depths of the human psyche.
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Jane Comfort examines beauty pressures through dance
Award-winning contemporary dance organization Jane Comfort and Company will bring its provocative dance-theater show, “Beauty,” to the University of Rochester this weekend as part of the UR Program of Dance and Movement’s 6th annual inspireDANCE festival. “Beauty,” choreographed by Comfort, uses the American icon of a Barbie doll to examine the cultural pressures surrounding women’s […]
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Garth Fagan and his company reach a milestone
This year marks Garth Fagan Dance’s 45th birthday and Fagan’s 75th. What’s next for the company?
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DANCE | “Past, Present and Future”
Missy Pfohl Smith’s BIODANCE, Eran Hanlon’s Eran Hanlon Dance & Company, and Kerfala Fana Bangoura’s Mounafanyi will be among those dance companies performing at the University of Rochester’s “Past, Present and Future” presentation at the university this Saturday. The concert will feature work by these professional companies as well as that of dance alumni and […]
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Casey reviews PUSH and “As the Dead Prey Upon Us”
PUSH Physical Theatre, the creation of Rochester-based husband and wife team Darren and Heather Stevenson, bills itself as “physical theater,” but it is really so much more. Darren’s spot-on humor is imbued with philosophical depth and the pieces the company performed at the Rochester Fringe Festival on Saturday moved the audience from hilarity to awe. […]
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Casey reviews Garth Fagan Dance
Garth Fagan Dance performed in its Chestnut Street studio on Friday night as part of the Rochester Fringe Festival, showcasing Fagan’s latest work and premiering Norwood Pennewell’s fifth piece for the company. Watching the Rochester-based, internationally-acclaimed company dance in the same place its members rehearse, create, and sweat intensifies and personalizes the performance. It’s also […]
