The News Review:
- Dance Listings
- therworldly music (from here)
- Ballet Du Grand Theatre De Geneve
- Dancing in the Seats
- Byline: Isamu Jordan
- Dance legends’ curtain call
Dance Listings
New York Times – Oct 26, 2007
“Loin” (which means “far” in French) is set to the glorious 17th-century “Mystery Sonatas” by Biber and its set suggests Arab latticework and veils. Cherkaoui’s physical vocabulary is contemporary in its supple back-bending deployment of the upper body and the extraordinarily fluid transitions between vertical and horizontal the ground and the air that can suggest a kind of transcendental break dance.
therworldly music (from here)
Seattle Times – Oct 26, 2007
• Internationally famous break-dance crew Massive Monkees is a Seattle treasure and this chance to see its members spar in a three-on-three dance-off is not to be missed. MM guarantees a sure-fire display of hip-hop at its most athletic. Saturday the Vera Project 305 Harrison St.
Ballet Du Grand Theatre De Geneve
nytimes.com – Oct 26, 2007
”Loin” (which means ”far” in French) is set to the glorious 17th-century ”Mystery Sonatas” by Biber and its set suggests Arab latticework and veils. Cherkaoui’s physical vocabulary is contemporary in its supple back-bending deployment of the upper body and the extraordinarily fluid transitions between vertical and horizontal the ground and the air that can suggest a kind of transcendental break dance. Like Pina Bausch he likes to take elements of the dancers’ everyday experiences and transform them into stylized vignettes: In ”Loin” the group recounts an incident on a tour to China with identical intonation and gesture transforming the speech into a musical and choreographic event of its own. Cherkaoui ordinary life is the stuff of art and art is where individuals can escape the constraints — physical religious cultural — of ordinary life. (Tonight and tomorrow night at 8 tomorrow and Sunday at 2 p.
Dancing in the Seats
New York Times – Oct 26, 2007
But our biology hasn’t changed we would probably have more fun if we moved freely. Music can be a more satisfying cerebral experience if we let it move us physically. When we hear a chord we like in works by Sibelius or Mahler our brains want to shout out “Yeah!” When an orchestra builds the timbral mass in Ravel’s “Bolero” we want to break out of our seats and dance and show how good it feels. Stand up sit down shout let it all out. As the managers of Lincoln Center contemplate renovations I say rip out some of the seats and give us room to move. Levitin a professor of psychology and music at McGill University is the author of “This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human bsession.
Byline: Isamu Jordan
Free with registration – Spokesman-Review (Spokane WA) – AccessMyLibrary.com – Oct 26, 2007
(26-CT-07) Spokesman-Review (Spokane WA). 26–ID: Nick Santonocito is a break dancer dance instructor and deejay in Deer Park who has been a part of the Tangled Roots break dancing crew since its inception.
Dance legends’ curtain call
NEWS.com.au – Oct 26, 2007
getElementById(“print-logo”)){ document. getElementById(“print-logo”)… article-tools –> ctober 26 2007 10:00pm AFTER more than three decades steering the nation’s hottest dance company through peaks and troughs Graeme Murphy and Janet Vernon will kick up their heels one more time tonight. To mark the end of their long association with Sydney Dance Company a gala fundraising night called Ever After Ever will feature Murphy and Vernon dancing on stage with the troupe in a final flourish. "It’s completely indulgent but it’s a nice way to say goodbye” Murphy told arts editor Simon Ferguson yesterday in a break between setting up lighting for the sold-out farewell show at the Theatre Royal. "It’s brief and not too energetic thank God” he said of the short piece he and Vernon will perform. The pair said they were sad to be leaving SDC but excited about their future together working on dance ballet opera and theatre here and overseas particularly China. "Just last night when the curtain went down on Berlin (SDC’s final show under their leadership) it was a bit like an arrow to the heart” admitted Vernon. Murphy agreed saying the long process of saying goodbye (after he quit more than a year ago) was like "being weaned off gradually because we couldn’t just go cold turkey”.