BWW Feedback: Ambivalence, Dance, and Streaming During Corona
COVID-19 has forced all of us online to connect with each other. Kerime Konor spoke with me about the new reality this situation has created and the ambivalence she feels about the constantly streaming display of dubious information and clueless privilege.
Jinah Parker's SHE to Run Off-Broadway
Choreographer, playwright, and dancer Jinah Parker's momentous and timely work SHE will run March 31 - May 19 at the Gym at Judson in Manhattan. This moving work of dance-theater-"a Choreoplay"-opens up all-too-necessary conversations about sexual trauma, systemic racism, women's healing and ownership of their bodies, and the undoing of rape culture.
Alpha Omega Theatrical Dance Company Celebrates 45th Anniversary Season
The Alpha Omega Theatrical Dance Company will celebrate its 45th Anniversary with performances of works by Eleo Pomare and company artistic director Enrique Cruz DeJesus, November 18 & 19 at the Ailey Citigroup Theater, Ninth Avenue & 55th Street. Two company premieres will be included in the program: the world premiere of DeJesus' Mending Minds, and the company premiere of Pomare's 1967 Las Desenamoradas, music by John Coltrane.