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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“So You Think You Can Dance” 2012: Top 16 Performances & Results
This week’s opening routine was like something out of a Charlie Chaplin nightmare. The girls and guys were indistinguishable from one another, each clad in a loose fitting suit, bowler cap, and mustache. The routine was filled with lots of nice smaller moments – the guys lifting the girls on develepe and at least one […]
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“So You Think You Can Dance” 2012: Top 20 Redux
For the first time, the performances are eliminations were rolled into one show – and it was a jam-packed box of sweets. But even the best box of chocolates has a few nut clusters you’ve got to suffer through to enjoy the goodies. The opening routine started out with a disturbing “Mirror, Mirror” moment, with […]
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“So You Think You Can Dance” 2012: Top 20 Perform
If “So You Think You Can Dance” was a kid, it’d be a full-blown fourth grader. Our little dance show is growing up fast – we’re on Season 9! — and like a kid, things are changing year by year. We have a Top 20 again, and the best 10 guys and 10 girls are […]
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Scene & Herd: A Carnival Of Animals
The term “carnival” most commonly brings up associations of bratty kids blowing their parents’ money on terrible food, tricky games, plastic souvenirs, and nausea-inducing rides. If you’re slightly more cultured, you might recognize Carnival as the festival season that takes place before Lent, perhaps best known for the Brazilian celebration of the more, shall we […]
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FALL GUIDE ’11: Dance Preview
It’s not easy to select only a handful of dance performances to recommend among the many offered in Rochester over the coming year. Dance is an art form with great variation, and people’s preferences for one form over another — say, contemporary rather than ballet, or African over tap — are as personal as the […]
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STUDENT SURVIVAL GUIDE ’09: Rochester dance clubs
BY KATHY LALUK After a long, stressful week, going out on the town and dancing the night away can be a fun way to unwind. Whether you love the deafening boom of the latest chart-toppers accompanied by seizure-inducing laser lights, or you’re into a more laid-back scene with live performances by local bands, there are […]
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Go ahead, push me
At a recent practice for PUSH Physical Theatre, Tom Ohl and Topher Holt made handstand pushups look like routine jumping jacks. Gravity never weighs PUSH performers down; the five-person troupe relies on it to carve an imaginary world out of the air around them. “There should be a sense for the audience that the air […]
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Putting on a good show
It is, in my opinion, the best moment in the world: after the lights go down and before the show starts. Voices hush, bodies settle, and you wait. There is so much possibility in the air that breathing feels better. In fall, local theater and dance groups start performing in earnest. Rochester and the surrounding […]
