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The title of Miguel Gutierrez’s latest work, “Super Nothing,” reaches toward opposite ends of a spectrum, as if pulling itself apart: over-full and empty, momentous and insignificant. It evokes the contradictions of a life in dance — that medium which requires so much effort for so little material reward — and of being alive in…
At Azara Ballet, dancers aren’t expected to make eye contact with the directors and choreographers. If company members need an impromptu break from the harsh stage lights during rehearsal, they take one. They also receive clear directions about hair and makeup well in advance of performances. The priority at Azara is dancers’ health. Founded in…
“It’s after the end of the world. Don’t we know that yet?” The choreographer Angie Pittman said those words onstage Saturday, paraphrasing the Afrofuturist jazz musician Sun Ra. Pittman was performing their solo “Black Life Chord Changes” at BAM Fisher Hillman Studio in Brooklyn on a double bill with “Joan,” a Kyle Marshall quartet inspired…
There is plenty of text in “Many Happy Returns,” but dance, the language of the body — presented here as intentional and slyly forthright — is just as critical as the words. The main character, who never speaks but does, in one moment, sing a Billy Joel song in flat a cappella, is Monica Bill…
Like other ancient epics, the Mahabharata teems with stories of gods and men, war and sex, conflict and resolution that lead to more of the same. The Ragamala Dance Company’s “Children of Dharma” selects a few of those stories to suggest cycles of harmony and disharmony in continual tension. But while the telling is expert…
‘Grandiloquent’ Through Feb. 8 at Lucille Lortel Theater, 121 Christopher Street, Manhattan; lortel.org. Wordplay can be fun, funny, even punny. But Gary Gulman takes it to another level with an acuity that few other stand-ups can match. Anyone who saw his 2016 performance on “Conan” in which he imagined a documentary on how the states…
It helped, Angle said, that he and Mearns are able to hear music in a similar way, their responses fueled by the same impulses. Because of that, he said, “she would have my body and my cuing and my breath to also help tell her what the meter was and what the tempo was.” Mearns…
