By Gdalit Neuman When Ohad Naharin, artistic director and principal choreographer of Israel’s Batsheva Dance Company, instructs his dancers to “groove” during their morning Gaga class, he wants them to tune into their body’s distinct rhythm and follow the flow. Naharin invented Gaga as a means of training his dancers to become “available” to movement
by Robert Greskovic For two weeks at New York’s downtown Joyce Theater, a converted movie house, the Lucinda Childs Dance Company took to its somewhat limited stage. Wider than it is tall or deep, with no orchestra pit and a plain brick back wall complete with an indentation that once held a projection speaker, the
by Kathleen Smith The only way to teach someone a show-stopping duet like Itzik Galili’s Mono Lisa is to break it down into bite-size chunks. And that’s just what I’m watching in the ground- floor studio of Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal downtown on Sherbrooke Street: Céline Cassone, her new partner Yosmell Calderón and a