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Bradley’s duet, She and Him, etc. – last dance on the program. Dancers Katherine Sprudzs and Joseph Wamp. photo by Nan Melville by R. Pikser The excellent idea behind the STEPS workshop performance series is to give young choreographers a chance to look at their new works, to get feedback, and to allow young…
by R. Pikser Ralph Lee’s Mettawee Theatre Company is a mixture of puppets and actors, music and movement, all in the service of telling the story. These particular stories about wily foxes and wilier humans, about masters of the world and payback for misers, resonate these days as much as they ever did. As…
A scene from Takaaki Shigenobu’s Dancing Monk Ippen, directed by Hiroaki Doi, at the Sheen Center as part of the 2014 New York International Fringe Festival. By R. Pikser The Dancing Monk Ippen is a modern adaptation of a part of Japanese history from the 13th century, when there was much civil war and killing…
Photos by Jaqi Medlock. By R. Pikser Jack’s, the performance space in re-gentrifying Brooklyn’s Clinton Hill, looks like it was once a garage. The tin-foil covered walls of the one room provide an intimate space for young performers to learn their craft, and the price is doable for the equally young audience members. This…
QURRAT ANN KADWANI By R. Pikser St. Luke’s Church, located across Eighth Avenue from the big Broadway houses is just barely off Broadway. The church has fitted its basement into an elegant theater space with comfortable chairs on risers and a small stage that still manages to have three wings. The tannish color…
By R. Pikser This tribute to the music of the late Iannis Xenakis offers insight to the current approach to music and movement A director, a dancer, and a percussionist have collaborated in Project IX – Pleiades, a tribute to the late composer Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001), which had its world premiere in Yokohama, Japan…