The day I interviewed Mark Morris, he had just received his copy of Mark Morris: Musician-Choreographer, a new book by dance scholar Stephanie Jordan, Ph.D. (Available later this month.) The fact that musician precedes choreographer in the title is no surprise; Morris is known for his sophisticated approach to music, his love of conducting and…
Remember those one-night-only ballet films you enjoyed in movie theaters last year? And the year before? I thought not. There’s little advance publicity for these gorgeous Fathom Events films, and until recently they’ve played to small audiences in few local theaters, most of them miles from Atlanta proper. A new season is about to begin,…
Elizabeth Streb is perhaps best known for her Extreme Action Company’s gravity and death defying feats at the 2012 London Olympics, where her dancers (or action heroes as she calls them) bungee jumped off the Millennium Bridge, leaped from scaffolding in Trafalgar Square, rappelled down City Hall and climbed the spokes of the London Eye…
The Nutcracker ballet features a wooden nutcracker that comes to life, but that seems like child’s play compared with dancer-choreographer Huang Yi’s work. His dancing partner is a 2,000-pound industrial robot named KUKA that comes to life in a mechanical but almost human way. They make their Atlanta debut at the Ferst Center for the…
“My voice is my sword,” says Atlanta singer/songwriter Elise Witt, who celebrates the release of her 12th CD with a concert at Oakhurst Baptist Church on Thursday, October 1 at 7 p.m. “I think this is my most activist album yet.” We’re All Born Singing is an eclectic mix, with flavors of salsa, folk…
When Secretary of State John Kerry was in Cuba for the reopening of the U.S. Embassy on August 14, the Havana-based Malpaso Dance Company was in the United States, performing on Martha’s Vineyard. And when Pope Francis visits Cuba on September 19, Malpaso will be performing in Atlanta as part of the National Black Arts Festival…
Can you hear that percussive stomping and clapping and body slapping? Is it tap? Is it clogging? Is it Irish step dancing? No, it’s stepping, an African-American dance form that emerged from the Black Greek letter societies and it’s coming to Atlanta courtesy of Step Afrika! on Saturday at 6 p.m. The Washington D.C.-based company…
Atlanta-based dancer and choreographer Juel D. Lane is one of four choreographers chosen to participate in the 2015-16 New Directions Choreography Lab, a program curated by Robert Battle, artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. The lab gives emerging choreographers an opportunity to develop their ideas with a group of students in The…
Dancer-choreographer Savion Glover has transformed tap from cheery Broadway and movie entertainment into a wide-ranging, ever-evolving art form, closer in spirit to McCoy Tyner and Jackson Pollock than Fred Astaire. He favors personal expression and innovation over the rote time steps and combinations many of us learned as kids. The result is unique, contemporary, groundbreaking…
Complexions Contemporary Ballet is leaving New York and moving to Atlanta. The company considered several other cities including San Diego, Los Angeles and Houston, but decided Atlanta was the best choice. According to Atlanta-based board member Su Longman, Complexions is planning a fundraising event in the fall and will perform October 8-10 at The Arena at Gwinnett…
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