The 2015-16 dance season is all about diversity There will be no lack of variety or drama in the 2015-16 season’s dance offerings. Choices include top contemporary dance companies such as Nai-Ni Chen Dance (which features Asiatic-influenced contemporary) and our own BIODANCE. Then there is the annual treat of seeing Garth Fagan Dance premiere new […]
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BIODANCE Missy Pfohl Smith’s Rochester-based company BIODANCE returns for its fourth season at Fringe with “BIO/DANCE & Social Justice,” a program that examines a diversity of inequality and justice in today’s world. Three of the pieces are from national guest artists; one is from Smith. Her piece is part of a program she has been […]
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Changing images of art
Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Principal Pops Conductor Jeff Tyzik and Rochester City Ballet Artistic Director Jamey Leverett will both present interpretations of another’s art onstage this weekend. “Images: Musical Impressions of an Art Museum” is a suite of seven movements that Tyzik wrote based on seven pieces of art from the Memorial Art Gallery. Leverett choreographed […]
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DANCE | “Madre Mia”
Borinquen Dance Theatre, a youth company led by Artistic Director Nydia Padilla-Rodriguez, brings its contemporary-modern and folkloric (Caribbean, Jamaican, and Puerto Rican) dance to Hochstein School of Music and Dance this Saturday, May 2, to present “Madre Mia,” a tribute to mothers. The company has nurtured hundreds of city youths through a structured dance program […]
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Artistry and swagger
During the 2014 Rochester Fringe Festival, FuturPointe, a Rochester-based dance company co-founded by Guy Thorne and N’Jelle Gage, presented “Unbridled” with photographer Carrie Mateosian. While the audience crowded up close at the outside venue downtown, company members Liam Knighten and Melinda Phillips each had a turn at being photographed by Mateosian while they were being […]
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DANCE | Garth Fagan Dance 75/45 Gala
Garth Fagan Dance marks Fagan’s 75th birthday and the company’s 45th season with a gala benefit, “Celebrating Genius, The Man, The Company” at the Hyatt Regency this Saturday. The internationally acclaimed company will be performing at the event, including Fagan’s piece “Passion Distanced” which features an 11-minute solo for Norwood Pennewell. In 1988, Pennewell danced […]
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DANCE | Movement and Dance Weekend
Serious dancers are always on the look-out for noteworthy instructors and inexpensive classes; Rochester dancers, take note. Thursday, March 26, through Sunday, March 29, is Movement and Dance Weekend by Nazareth College Department of Theatre and Dance, a huge part of which consists of an exciting array of master classes taught by accomplished dancers, choreographers, […]
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Studio fit
Did you take ballet lessons as a child? Maybe some contemporary or jazz classes during your teenage years or early 20’s? Perhaps you’re looking to dive back into dance now, and try something new. Or maybe you’re simply searching for a fun alternative to the gym. Whatever your situation, Rochester offers an eclectic variety of […]
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Fast motions
Jessica Lang Dance, distinguished by Lang’s incorporation of striking visual elements into her pieces and her fusion of classical ballet vocabulary and contemporary dance, comes to Nazareth College Arts Center Saturday, March 7. The company debuted in the summer of 2012 at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, the stomping grounds of highly-regarded dance. Within two years, […]
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Las Vegas Contemporary Dance Theater
Las Vegas Contemporary Dance Theater, a repertory company known for its passionate, diverse, and highly athletic dancing, is performing at Nazareth College Arts Center on Valentine’s Day. This is a company that embraces many styles of dance, but LVCDT’s Nazareth program will emphasize neo-classical ballet, which utilizes classical ballet vocabulary while working within less rigid […]
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In practice clothes
A large dance studio lined with ballet barres and mirrors at Rochester City Ballet’s University Avenue home was filled with spectators Tuesday night as the company rehearsed “Serenade,” choreographed by George Balanchine and set to the music of Tchaikovsky. The well-attended event was part of the company’s In Studio Series, now in its fourth year. […]
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The Rochester 10
The Greater Rochester area is filled with talented, driven people working to make the region a better place to live, work, and play. But often it seems that the same names dominate headlines, while others who are working tirelessly within their own spheres go under the radar. This annual project — the Rochester 10 — […]
