Mike Tyus, Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern and Jordan Kriston in On the Nature of Things. (Photo by Grant Halverson) They did it again. This oddball dance company has delighted us with another dynamite performance. Started four decades ago by four gymnasts from Dartmouth College who, after wandering into a dance class, developed an idiosyncratic style of dance (which they named after … [Read more...]
Limon Dance marks 70 years in exceptional style at Duncan
A scene from the Limón Dance Company’s The Moor’s Pavane. (Photo by Bill Hebert) By Tara Mitton Catao While out on its 70th anniversary national tour, the Limón Dance Company made a stop here in South Florida as part of the Duncan Theatre’s Modern Dance Series. The program celebrated the creative essence of its founder/creator José Limón and gave us the opportunity to see … [Read more...]
Hubbard Street Dance brilliant at Duncan Theatre
By Tara Mitton Catao Hubbard Street Dance Chicago made a great impression Friday night while making its first appearance as part of the Duncan Theatre’s popular dance series in Lake Worth. The polished company that started more than 30 years ago as a jazz and tap dance troupe performing in the parks of Chicago has morphed into a top-notch contemporary dance organization that … [Read more...]
Trinity Irish Dance: A bit over the top, but hard to resist
By Tara Mitton Catao Last Saturday night, the stage of the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts brimmed with the buoyant movement of the Trinity Irish Dance Company, reflecting not only a timeless appeal but a freshly invigorating approach. The bouncing curls and lightning feet of the young dancers filled the performing space with what is now being called “progressive Irish … [Read more...]
Rioult Dance: Fine execution, middling material
By Tara Mitton Catao One could sense the integrity of the tight-knit artistic ensemble that is Rioult Dance NY, the small modern dance company that performed at the intimate Rinker Playhouse at the Kravis Center on Thursday night. Proficient in what they do, Rioult Dance presented a well-balanced program of works choreographed by Artistic Director Pascal Rioult. In Views of … [Read more...]
Paul Taylor at Duncan: The renegade still astonishes
By Tara Mitton Catao It was only a short 13 months ago that the Paul Taylor Dance Company was here at the Duncan Theatre performing the iconic modern dance choreographer’s trademark athletic dances. They were revving up for a major season in New York at Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater. During the three-week season, a vast variety of programs were to showcase Taylor’s … [Read more...]
Mainly Mozart’s chamber music-dance finale enchants large audience
The directors of Miami’s Mainly Mozart Festival made much June 22 of the crowd they’d lured to the Knight Concert Hall for their chamber music summer season closer, subtitled My Homeland. And indeed the mood in the big hall at the Arsht Center downtown was festive and celebratory, and they were rewarded with a concert that took the strong and innovative format from last year’s … [Read more...]
Essay: Keeping dance all about the art
By Tara Mitton Catao Dance competitions are multiplying in profusion these days, forcing those of us in the art form to have mixed feelings about a growing popularity that seems to treat dance more as a sport than an art form. Dance has always relied heavily on technique because it uses the human body as its tool for artistic expression. The more technique a dancer has, the … [Read more...]
Inventive, explosive Koresh Dance closes Duncan season
By Tara Mitton Catao The Duncan Theatre’s dance season came to a resounding finish with the explosive performance on Friday night of the Philadelphia-based Koresh Dance Company. Artistic director and choreographer Roni Koresh unleashed a movement vocabulary that was a fascinating flurry of endless invention. As the show unfurled, one got a tremendous sense of the artistic … [Read more...]
Ayikodans exhilarating in Rinker show
By Tara Mitton Catao Is there anything more thrilling than entering a dark theater, not knowing what to expect, and to be pulled, like a magnetic force, into the performance and then, when the lights come up, to feel both exhilarated and satisfied? Ayikodans has that magnetic effect. Under the artistic vision and leadership of Jeanguy Saintus, this group of outstanding … [Read more...]