August, 2012

Houston Brazilian Festival

Houston Brazilian Festival

Care to Dance? Houston Brazilian Festival Returns to Jones Plaza   You don’t have to wait for anyone to ask you to dance in Brazil, so why should you have to wait at Jones Plaza, the site of the Houston Brazilian Festival, which runs from 1 to 10pm on Sunday, September 2? Four different bands […]

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NobleMotion Spitting Ether

NobleMotion Spitting Ether

NobleMotion Dance & David J. Deveau Barnevelder Movement/Arts Complex Friday, August 31, 2012 Lights flash, arc, blind, blink. Arms, legs, faces appear, disappear. Shadows bend, swallow, haunt.   Spitting Ether: A Reality Bending Dance, created in collaboration by NobleMotion Dance and lighting designer David J. Deveau, is an evening of light and dance, yes, but perhaps […]

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A week at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival

A week at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival

There’s a happily revolving door at Jacob’s Pillow every summer, as dancers and dance companies come and go and audiences have the chance to sample from hundreds of performances.  The dance festival in Western Massachusetts, has now been running for 80 years, since Ted Shawn freed himself from a vaudevillian past, (and a dancer wife, […]

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Jonah Bokaer

Jonah Bokaer

Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival August 5, 2012 If I had to label the genre of Jonah Bokaer’s new work, Curtain,premiered at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, I would say it’s a thriller, more in genre of Inception than any garden variety car chaser. Performed by Bokaer and his frequent collaborators, Adam H. Weinert and James McGinn. Curtain is really a cluster […]

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