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 Dance appoints leadership team
Garth Fagan Dance announced yesterday the creation and appointment of two new administrative positions. Karen Brown was named the company’s executive director, and Stephanie Harris is now its development director. The two positions will help “sustain the legacy of GFD, expand the strong foundation built over the last 45 years, and shepherd the company into […]
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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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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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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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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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Recap: PUSH Physical Theatre in “Fake Off” finals
Rochester’s PUSH Physical Theatre nearly brought home the $100,000 jackpot in Monday night’s final episode of TruTV’s “Fake Off.” The show challenges performance groups to come up with the best “fakes” using a combination of illusion, theater, acrobatics, and black lighting. PUSH received a score of 28 out of 30 for their on-stage interpretation of […]
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Dance Review: Garth Fagan’s home season opener
Garth Fagan Dance again had Rochester on its feet, applauding in unabashed awe and appreciation, during the opening night of the company’s home season at Nazareth College Performing Arts Center, Wednesday evening. Celebration seemed to be a strong tenet in several of the pieces performed — that Fagan-esque shout-out to the deep currents of physical, […]
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PUSH Physical Theatre
Darren and Heather Stevenson, co-producers of PUSH Physical Theatre, have been asked more than once whether they wanted their extreme-movement, physical performance company to appear on national television (“America’s Got Talent” has called several times). But this is the first time they’ve accepted. PUSH is currently appearing in the reality competition show “Fake Off,” a […]
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An Evening of Dance and Performance Art
After a decade engrained in the Rochester dance scene as a teacher, choreographer, and performer, William Evans, 74, is retiring from The College at Brockport and relocating to Providence, Rhode Island. He has accepted a teaching position at The School of Dance at Dean College. On Saturday, July 5, Evans will present a farewell concert […]
