Saturday was the final night of Fringe, the last show I went to, and, damn, am I glad I did. “Transient Being,” choreographed by Eran David P. Hanlon in collaboration with performing artist AlainaOlivieri and visual artist Joseph Tarantelli moved me like nothing else I’ve seen at the festival. Olivieri’s arresting movements reflected the deconstruction […]
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Fringe Fest 2013 Reviews: “How to Survive Crack Addiction”
To begin with, the audience crowding the foyer of Writers & Books waiting to see Padraic Lillis’ one-man show “How to Survive Crack Addiction” seemed all wrong to me. I expected — I don’t know — youthful? But these folks were almost all of a certain age, dressed respectably and drinking coffee out of Styrofoam […]
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Fringe Fest 2013 Reviews: “Psychopomp & Pageantry,” PUSH Physical Theatre
Fringe Festival Day 3 and a full bill of dance and theater for me: Garth Fagan Dance, FuturePointe Dance and PUSH Physical Theatre. Three hard-hitting local biggies. Each so much its own entity that seeing them all in one evening was like reading three good novels back to back to back. How can you digest […]
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Fringe Fest 2013 Reviews: Garth Fagan Dance
By nature, the Fringe Festival varies widely in scope and talent. Let’s just say, when it came to seeing Garth Fagan Dance on Saturday, it was good to come in from the rain knowing I was about to see expertise. “The spirit has to come out to grab you when we dance,” Fagan told the […]
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Fringe Fest 2013 Reviews: Mariah Maloney Dance, “The Goldilocks Score…”
If you braved the downtown streets once darkness fell and made it to the TheatreROCS stage at Xerox Auditorium Thursday night, you were rewarded with the brightly lit performance of Mariah Maloney Dance. (Sidebar: Why did I not spot a single police person, on foot or in car, anywhere in the vicinity to grant Fringe-goers […]
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DANCE: On their toes
You can’t discuss the dance year in Rochester without bringing up Garth Fagan Dance, now in its 43rd year. Most locals — at least those with an interest in the arts — know about this powerhouse troupe, but, then again, the name should trip automatically off the tongue of anyone citing Rochester as their home […]
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DANCE PREVIEW: “Arc of Ages”
PUSH Physical Theatre’s new masterwork, “Arc of Ages,” embraces epic stories of Western civilization and explores basic human archetypes by depicting the legendary struggles of biblical characters. Dramatic, action-packed interpretations of Samson, Delilah, David, Bathsheba, and Job connect audiences to these characters’ flawed humanness, and to the continued relevance of their plights today. “What do […]
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DANCE: “Past, Present, and Future”
At an April rehearsal at the Rochester City Ballet studios on University Avenue, the company was running through the George Balanchine work “Serenade” under the direction of Leslie Peck, one of an elite group of dancers authorized by the George Balanchine Trust to stage his ballets, in an effort to keep the artistic integrity of […]
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Vision of Sound
Vision of Sound is the name of the dance and music concert featuring eclectic regional dancers and musicians, taking place this weekend at Hochstein School of Music and Dance. It is Artistic Director Mark Olivieri’s vision to eventually transform the annual collaboration into an actual company. “We have a core of musicians. We have a […]
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DANCE: “This is Tango Now: Identidad”
Mention tango dancing and most people immediately imagine some variation of a woman in red sauntering seductively across stage, whirled in close and dipped low by a darkly sensual partner. This, to most people, is tango. But Fernanda Ghi and her husband Guillermo Merlo, creators of “This is Tango Now,” seek to break this stereotype. […]
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Dance Review: Garth Fagan Dance’s “Lighthouse/Lightning Rod”
Garth Fagan creates in good company. His new work, “Lighthouse/Lightning Rod,” wows with the combined powers of his uniquely stylized and gorgeously executed choreography, the bang-up score by jazz great Wynton Marsalis, and bewitching stage sets from Alison Saar, Guggenheim and two times National Endowment of the Arts Fellow. Saar’s sculptures are a stand-out, bestowing […]
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DANCE PREVIEW: Garth Fagan Dance
Garth Fagan Dance is home from its travels for the Rochester premiere of a new collaboration between Tony and Olivier Award-winning choreographer Garth Fagan and Grammy Award-winning jazz great Wynton Marsalis. The piece, “Lighthouse/Lightning Rod,” is the second collaboration between Fagan and Marsalis; the first — “Griot New York” — was created by the duo […]
