Dance
APPARITION OF A FACE IN A CROWD
Eiko’s First Solo Performance In Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station
By Madison Mainwaring
I asked Eiko Otake to describe her latest work, A Body in a Station, which took place this past October in Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station. “One woman comes into the station, walks around, lies down, watches people and is watched by them, then leaves,” she said in reply.
Lives of (Xavier Le Roy’s) Performers: Retrospective by Xavier Le Roy
By Jaime Shearn CoanVisitor’s choice: I watch three performers as they interpret excerpts from Xavier Le Roy’s solo works (1994 – 2010). Or maybe I become the audience for a performer who is delivering a Retrospective. I might enter the second room, and be greeted by two other performers in a more informal (no dancing) environment. The last option is to enter a third room—a surprise that I will not spoil here.
In Conversation
This Interview
By Stormy BudwigA few weeks ago, I sat in on two of Neil Greenberg’s rehearsals for This, his new dance premiering at New York Live Arts in early December. The first rehearsal was in Live Arts’s Jerome Robbins studio, the second was at the Actors Fund Arts Center.
BEYOND “FORMAL”
Complicating Categorizations and Preserving Street Dance With Rep Your Style
By Ali Rosa-Salas
Since the dawn of tap to the emergence of vogue, movement vocabularies founded in the nightclubs, parks, and community centers of New York City have defied the constructs of proscenium dance performance. Yet, due to their development primarily outside of institutional art spaces, these dance forms are widely referred to as “street dance,” a label that in some contexts is employed pejoratively, and in others is the source of deep pride.
