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Les Ballets Jazz brings wonderful weekend of dance to MASS MoCA
Sunday, March 3, 2013
Review: If it’s chic artistry you desire, look no further than Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal. This urbane ensemble from the north heated up the theater at MASS MoCA this weekend with a showing of three ultra-hip and ultra-stunning dances by choreographers rarely seen in these parts.
Multimedia MOMIX to perform at SPAC in Aug.
Sunday, March 3, 2013
Led by choreographer Moses Pendeleton, MOMIX will perform “Botanica”, a work that combines dance, theater and cinema to create larger-than-life images from the natural world at SPAC on Aug. 1.
ALBANY
Review: Philadanco revels in its diversity with powerful performance
Friday, March 1, 2013
This contemporary ensemble of athletic, dynamic dancers demonstrated its versatility in a program that featured African-inspired dancing by the esoteric dancemaker Ronald K. Brown and street funk moves by hard-hitting, socially conscious Rennie Harris.
SCHENECTADY
Review: Gravity-defying ‘Traces’ daring, fun
Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013
From the start, one could sense that “Traces” was not your average song and dance show.
SCHENECTADY
‘Les Mis’ tickets? C’est difficile
Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013
Proctors has only single seats remaining for the productions of “Les Miserables” that begin April 30. The Saturday night show is entirely sold out, and the best remaining single seats for many others are in the balcony.
NEW YORK
'Les Miserables' producer expects film will give stage version a boost
Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013
The film and stage producer behind the blockbuster movie version of “Les Miserables” is planning to take a currently touring stage version of the musical to Broadway next year.
ALBANY
Review: UAlbany dance program explores sexuality
Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013
Presented to a sold-out audience at the Performing Arts Center at the University at Albany on Thursday night, dancer/choreographer Gesel Mason's “Women, Sex and Desire: Sometimes You Feel Like a Ho, Sometimes You Don’t” challenged society’s expectations and beliefs about sex and women.
Curtain Call show is based on real events of 1920s
Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013
The 1920s was a grand decade for women. Along with earning the right to vote, many of them also began drinking, smoking and dancing — in public. And many of them began working outside the home.
Museum of Dance program to celebrate Black History Month
Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013
The National Museum of Dance had such a great success with its Black History Month Celebration last year that it is hosting another on Sunday.
City Ballet’s stay shorter but packed with premieres, classics
Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013
A ballet by up-and-coming choreographer Justin Peck and new works by ballet master Peter Martins and choreographer Christopher Wheeldon are among the highlights of the New York City Ballet’s July residency at Saratoga Performing Arts Center.
TROY
Review: Dancers put at disadvantage for collaborative show at music hall
Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013
The Troy Savings Bank Music Hall is perfect for music. The hall is not so ideal for dance, however. That was quite evident on Saturday night when the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company joined the Ahn Trio at the concert hall for “Temptation of the Muses.”
ALBANY
Outstanding cast overcomes uneven ‘Laramie’ production
Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013
The Albany Civic Theater production is crammed with good actors capable of telling that tale, but the presentation is uneven, too often leaving questions that the story isn’t asking.
SARATOGA SPRINGS
Happy feet meet at Saratoga Springs festival
Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013
The Saratoga Springs City Center and connected Saratoga Hilton were taken over this weekend by the Flurry Festival, which featured variations of contra dances.
SCHENECTADY
Review: ‘Priscilla’ story clichéd, but performers, costumes delightful
Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013
Sadly, there is very little original about “Priscilla, Queen of the Desert” (save one big item) with its arsenal of recycled songs and story
Live-action short nominees just as good as full-length features
Friday, Feb. 15, 2013
Forget the debate over which feature film is favored to win best picture at this year’s Oscars. That august field of nine has nothing on the nominated live-action shorts this year, five films of differing styles and tones, but each polished to near perfection — short films so good you’re dying to see feature-length versions of every tale told here.
