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Claire Mazza and Daniel White. photos are by Nan Melville Kathryn Posin Dance R. Pikser Kathryn Posin continues to delight us all with her wide-ranging interests, her imagination, and her wit. Lately, she has turned more to ballet, rather than modern dance, as her movement medium, though here and there whole body-movements sneak through…
By R. Pikser The New Stage Theater, located in the partially finished basement of a hostel, complete with brightly painted steam pipes and outsized valves, provides a perfect entree to the theme of Electronic City by German playwright Falk Richter. Electronic City is a critique of the pervasive gig economy and resultant transient lives…
Lori Belilove The Isadora Duncan Dance Company By R. Pikser Isadora Duncan was a dancer at the beginning of the 20th century who was, in many ways, part of the turmoil of the time. World War I, a struggle for domination among the European powers and which of them was going to be preeminent…
L Tyler Fauntleroy and Kim Sullivan photos by Gerry Goodstein Looking For Leroy R. Pikser This two-man play by Larry Muhammed is a tribute to the late Imamu Amiri Baraka, icon of the Black theatre and Black arts movements, whose contributions still inform our consciousness. A word commonly used these days, though almost…
Jamal Brathwaite (left), Amy Frances Quint (center) and Kevin Haver (right) photos by Maria Baranova), Twelfth Night: Frog and Peach R. Pikser The intimacy of a black box theater brings audiences close to the performers; the spare space requires use of the imagination by directors, performers, and audience. One can…
Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company in Intersections. Photo by Steven Pisano Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company: Intersections By R. Pikser This 20th anniversary concert of Daniel Gwirtzman’s was a retrospective of pieces created between 1999 and 2018. The pieces were extracted from their original ballets and put together for this hour and a half concert,…
Ashleigh Pearce (center) balances above the audience as company member Jacob Randell (left) assists her from below. Photo Credit: Maike Schulz Gravity and Other Myths: A Simple Space By R Pikser A Simple Space is the second production of the group Gravity and Other Myths. We can only hope the first production,…
E – Photographed by Solwazi Afi Olusola- R. Pikser Why do we go to see dance or to listen to music? One reason is to admire the skill of those who do what we cannot do: We go to witness others being alive, so that we, too, may partake of their vitality. But…
By R. Pikser The Connelly Theater occupies an old orphanage on East Fourth Street near Avenue B. There are two theaters on the site, but the one in which Shadows is presented is an actual gem: Above the intimate stage with its wide golden proscenium are bright golden heads of satyrs flanking…
Megan McQueen By R. Pikser Bernard Pomerance, the author of the critically acclaimed Elephant Man, drafted Spin Off in 2003 and revised it in 2006. Though Mr. Pomerance died a little over a year ago, the project of putting it on the stage continued without him and now it is being performed at…