Review: Dancing the Night With Brazil’s Cia Suave

Ripoll created “Suave” and focused on the passinho, or “small step” with fast paced, precise footwork; dancinha derived from it. “Kry,” uneven, it’s worth a visit alone for the extended opening where the dancers take over the horizontal plane of the stage. Under the direction of DJ Pop Andrade, they cross space with flying feet …

Review: ‘Tap Dancing Boy’ Is Still Out Of Time’s Step

When 8:30 p.m. is typical curtain time for Broadway musicals, the main character’s biggest number came in at 11 am—think “Rose’s Turn” in “Gypsy,” which crystallized the crisis and provided a round of applause. Curtain for Wednesday night opening Encore! Revival of “Tap Dance Kid” It rose at 7:30 am, so the supposedly 11 o’clock …

5 Minutes For Dancing To Make You Love Music

In the past, we chose five minutes to play to make our friends fall in love. classic music, piano, opera, cello, Mozart, 21st century composers, violin, baroque music, soprano, Beethoven, flute, string quartets, tenors, brahms, choral music, percussion, symphonies, Stravinsky, trumpet, Maria Callas, single, Organ and mezzo-sopranos. Now we want to persuade these curious fellows …

What’s on TV This Week: ‘Dancing with the Stars’ and the Spirit Train

INDEPENDENT LENS: HOME FROM SCHOOL: CARLISLE’S KIDS At 9pm PBS (check local listings). Filmmakers Geoffrey O’Gara and Sophie Barksdale bring to light the stories of Arapaho children who were taken from their homes in the 1800s and brought to a federal boarding school in Carlisle, PA. There they are deprived of their culture. The filmmakers …

What’s on TV This Week: ‘Dancing with the Stars’ and the Spirit Train

INDEPENDENT LENS: HOME FROM SCHOOL: CARLISLE’S KIDS At 9pm PBS (check local listings). Filmmakers Geoffrey O’Gara and Sophie Barksdale bring to light the stories of Arapaho children who were taken from their homes in the 1800s and brought to a federal boarding school in Carlisle, PA. There they are deprived of their culture. The filmmakers …

Kandis Williams Dreams of Dancing Bodies Without Borders

Dance is both the main theme and lens for examining contemporary culture in “A Line,” the first solo exhibition of multimedia artist Kandis Williams in New York. 52 Walker, the new venue of the David Zwirner gallery in Tribeca. Large-scale collages on grid-lined paper mix archival photographs of dancers and choreographers—some familiar to enthusiasts like …

Dancing Cheek to Cheek Again: New York’s Tango Scene Rebound

There is no concept of social distance in tango. Born in the working-class neighborhoods of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, this dance is about intimacy, touching, and abrazo’s intimacy or embrace. There is no distance between bodies; partners lean against each other, their faces and chests touch, one arm wraps around the other’s back, communicating through …

Dancing Cheek to Cheek Again: New York’s Tango Scene Rebound

There is no concept of social distance in tango. Born in the working-class neighborhoods of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, this dance is about intimacy, touching, and abrazo’s intimacy or embrace. There is no distance between bodies; partners lean against each other, their faces and chests touch, one arm wraps around the other’s back, communicating through …