Here’s an impossible question: How does one design a two-day contemporary dance festival that is both palatable enough to hook would-be patrons and innovative enough to satisfy the seasoned dancegoers? For this year’s Off the EDGE, the daunting task went to Montreal-based curator Ilter Ibrahimof, who chose the 10 works for the 2016 biennial dance…
In some cities The Nutcracker tastes like stale fruitcake: a necessary holiday staple endured for the sake of tradition. Thankfully, Atlanta can breathe a peppermint-scented sigh of relief. Atlanta Ballet’s Nutcracker, this time around, is as fresh as a just-cut spruce tree, as comforting and sweet as warm apple cider. On its 20th anniversary, Atlanta Ballet’s Nutcracker…
When he steps out of the car wearing sharp aviator sunglasses, his thick dark hair twisted into a stylish man bun, I think: that guy does not look like a clown. And Ofir Nahari, I soon realize, is not the clown of your Bozo/Ringling Bros./Stephen King’s It variety. The Tel Aviv-based Israeli artist is better…
ArtsATL contributor Andrew Alexander is used to asking the questions in an interview, not answering them. Easily Atlanta’s most prolific arts critic, Alexander covers a dizzying array of genres including theater, dance, film, opera, classical music and jazz for a number of online and print publications. He’s been named Atlanta’s Best Arts Critic for two years…
It’s an assertion I’ve heard before, this time from Tel Avivian choreographer Oren Laor: “Israelis are very straightforward.” Perhaps it is the immediacy, the tension and constant threat of violence, that creates a strong need to make and disseminate art. “Everything is so fragile and violent, you cannot talk about bullshit to us,” Laor says….
The word modern has confused and polarized arts patrons for centuries. Rarely a simple delineation between current and historical work, it refers to a stylistic break from tradition and redefines what is appropriate, allowed or even possible in art. By definition, a modern ballet should throw out, or at least challenge, classical form and content….
At first glance, Tennessee Williams’ Camino Real is not the most obvious choice for a story ballet. Presented in surrealistic episodes, the play relies on symbolism over plot, and the large cast is a mash-up of characters from classic literature. Compared to the playwright’s mainstream hits A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin…
With Body Against Body, a compilation of famed choreographer Bill T. Jones’ early duets, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company presented the only dance event on Emory University’s Flora Glenn Candler Concert Series. Past Candler Series events have included musical giants like the New York Philharmonic, minimalist composer Philip Glass, and pianist Lang Lang. And…
On Saturday, January 31, the Rialto Center for the Arts will present Urban Bush Women’s 30th anniversary tour Power in Movement. The Brooklyn-based company, founded and directed by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, is known for its bold, often socially motivated works and strong female dancers. This will be an especially significant performance for me as…
When a talented young dancer leaves a famous company to become a choreographer, expectations and assumptions run high. And when that famous company is Batsheva Dance Company under the direction of the now iconic Ohad Naharin, it’s hard not to look for, even crave, artistic similarities. Such is the case with Ate9 Dance Company, a new Los…
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