don’t mind the minor lull

we are waiting to make posts til the weekend when the reviews of green map are complete as well as some of burr’s teaching and rehearsing.

we promise both of those things plus new mudson vimeo updates soon.

for now you can attend either the performing dance company at the u or slcc’s new concert inspired by visual art (and featuring a huge array of local guest artists). see this link for details http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/entertainment/51517133-81/dance-art-slcc-visual.html.csp

as always if you have links to share, reviews you’d like posted or even if you just have a question e-mail lovedancemore@gmail.com or call ashley at 801.842.5525

also use this one day blog lull as a good excuse to apply for fall 2011 mudson (see link on the home page)

burr is here!

Aaron Burr Johnson (dancer for John Jasperse, Shen Wei and more) is here!!

We are delighted to have him in residence.
Right now we are scouting sites for a possible rogue performance (or two) about town.

Burr will also be teaching at the University of Utah this week and next as well as some high schools. If you are interested in Burr teaching please e-mail lovedancemore@gmail.com

More details about his residency to follow.

local review + interview to come

if you didn’t see this samba fogo review in city weekly already ch-ch-check it out

http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/blog-5322-samba-fogo-all-that-glitters-%28or-burns%29.html

also judith jamison. was. incredible.
any person working in the field that long has such a unique vision of how things can and should move forward and how we all continue to relate to one another through dance.
sofia strempek from the u is able to interview her and soon we can post some of her thoughts (and perhaps a transcript of her lecture) on the blog.

hopefully.
because the singular non-incredible part of her lecture was how few students of dance were present.
and i have to say that when judi comes to town you better go with everyone from your rehearsal or your dinner party.

when she honors women like denise jefferson, agnes de mille, sylvia waters and more as part of her history and tells stories of being evicted from dance studios as a child for being african-american yet now having 45,000 students registered in the ailey school, and shares stories of spiritual reciprocity that encircles us by honoring our own teachers and peers, it’s probably not something to miss.

pretty cool shout-out

Just got an e-mail from this organization, onlineclasses.org to say that loveDANCEmore.org was listed in the “best blogs for fine arts students”

Check out the full post, and other noted blogs, here:

http://www.onlineclasses.org/2011/03/27/50-best-blogs-for-fine-arts-students/

hawai’i and samoa from ny to la

Below are two links to articles about a traditional Hawaiian performance in NY as well as a Samoan artist on tour between NY and LA.

Check back on the blog later for a write-up of Judith Jamison’s lecture at Kingsbury Hall tonight.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-mau-20110327,0,3366435.story

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/28/arts/dance/hula-by-halau-o-keikialii-at-symphony-space-review.html?ref=dance

icons

you may have seen BYU reconstruct Panorama, the U also did it awhile ago
but what’s an even more exciting reconstruction is Richard Move as Martha Graham (again and again)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/27/arts/dance/richard-move-still-portrays-martha-graham.html?_r=1&ref=dance

Mark Dendy also did the same thing in an older piece “Dream Analysis” and in newer work he’s also turned to (his version of) reconstructions like “Smoke” by Ruth St. Denis.

after you go see judith jamison you should

really consider going to see bell hooks at the university of utah on march 30 (details from the university are linked below)

http://www.unews.utah.edu/p/?r=032211-1

some might not consider bell hooks the most related to dance audiences but her work (spanning from “art on my mind” to “feminism is for everybody”) very frequently handles issues of performance, particularly performance by women of color, and her presence here as a cultural critic seems important and worth of our attention.

below is one example of hooks’ work on performance from the google books version of race to reel, it should be at the second where hooks addresses the film “paris is burning”

http://books.google.com/books?id=hRtGzesft_AC&lpg=PA218&dq=bell%20hooks%20paris%20is%20burning&pg=PA218&output=embed

 

 

weekend links & call for reviews

below are some links to reviews here & there. the spring & summer also hold many a local performance to be reviewed. RW will show the Nikolais Centennial, RDT will premiere the heavily previewed Green Map Project, RawMoves will present their new piece “Babble” and there are also some informal group shows on the horizon which we’ll post about soon. if you would like to review any of these shows for the blog and vol. 3 of the performance journal shoot an e-mail to lovedancemore@gmail.com

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The LA Times reviews Nederlands Dans Theater

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/03/dance-review-nederlands-dans-theater-at-the-music-center.html

A Dance Magazine review of Doug Varone & Dancers

http://www.dancemagazine.com/reviews/March-2011/Doug-Varone-and-Dancers

A Dance Magazine review of PearsonWidrig & Sharon Mansur which features writing about former RW performer Erin Lehua Brown

http://www.dancemagazine.com/reviews/March-2011/PearsonWidrig-and-Sharon-Mansur

 

upcoming

Judith Jamison (former Alvin Ailey Artistic Director) is going to speak at Kingsbury Hall this coming Monday at 6pm. It’s free but call ahead to reserve tickets 801.581.7100

Also happening soon is the Weber State Concert which features a lot of repertory as well as some student/faculty work. March 31-April 2. Call for details on location and tickets — 800-WSU-TIKS

coming up for loveDANCEmore….
Aaron Burr Johnson arrives in just four days to set to work on some site-specific projects as well as teach at the U

We are also setting up rehearsals for the first part of Karinne Keithley Syers 2011 residency. Open rehearsals at the library soon to be posted!

mid-week links

Oh cognitive scientists, always trying to explain the creative and performing brain.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-barry-kaufman/creative-people_b_829563.html?ref=fb&src=sp

Oh NYTimes, mostly monopolized by Alistair Macaulay’s continued thoughts on Cunningham repertory or classical ballet but occasionally peppered with interesting reviews of important young women in the field like Laurie Berg (who I think runs AUNTS these days?) and Aynsley Vanderbroucke (who runs the incredible Mt. Tremper space)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/19/arts/dance/laurie-berg-and-aynsley-vandenbroucke-at-danspace-project-review.html?ref=dance

Oh, LA Times, who continues to belabor the plight of Spider Man on Broadway and the performers the production has continued to injure along the way.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/03/spider-man-musical-broadway-injury-.html

And last but not least our own Salt Lake paper of record, where the comments on Kathy Adams ODT review are just as interesting as the review itself.

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/entertainment/51452269-81/odt-dance-bluth-choreography.html.csp