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Danish Dance Exalts the Ordinary

BY GUS SOLOMONS JR | One remarkable thing about the Dansk Danse Teater (Danish Dance Theatre), directed since 2001 by British-born Tim Rushton, is that only one of the troupe’s dozen dancers is actually Danish — and she’s of African descent. Denmark’s most widely acclaimed contemporary dance company brought Rushton’s “Love Songs” to the Joyce Theater March 11-13 [...]

March 26, 20136296No CommentDanish+Dance+Exalts+the+Ordinary2013-03-27+02%3A30%3A27adminRead More

Songs of Sex and Madness

BY ELI JACOBSON | New York City Opera’s recent winter season at BAM showed a company rising like a phoenix from its own ashes. While its old productions were broken up and auctioned off as souvenirs, George Steel’s new vision for the company took shape. No longer competing with the Met, NYCO focused on boutique repertory [...]

March 26, 20136302No CommentSongs+of+Sex+and+Madness2013-03-27+01%3A32%3A38adminRead More

Gifts from Down Under

BY DAVID NOH | Helen Reddy was undoubtedly one of the major voices of the 1970s, with her rapid-succession top-selling hits constantly playing on the radio and seeping under our skin. She’s making a long overdue return to New York at B.B. King on March 23 and 24 and took time off from touring in [...]

March 19, 201361732 CommentsGifts+from+Down+Under2013-03-19+22%3A47%3A21adminRead More

America’s Dancemaker Keeps On Keeping On

BY GUS SOLOMONS JR | Paul Taylor’s second spring season at Lincoln Center offers the usual abundance of dances by the 20th century master. Having moved from its former stage, City Center, to the grander Koch Theater, the company looks entirely at home. Taylor is perhaps the last remaining mid-century modern dance master, and he still [...]

March 18, 20136148No Comment2013-03-18+22%3A50%3A20adminRead More

Luminous Out Soprano Returns with Mozart

BY DAVID SHENGOLD | The last time proudly out soprano Christine Brandes spoke to Gay City News was in April 2004. Bay Area critic Jason Victor Serinus profiled the dynamic, bright, quirky, and dark-silver-voiced Brandes as she readied her favorite role — Susanna in Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” — for City Opera. Reflecting on this [...]

March 13, 20136040No Comment2013-03-13+17%3A28%3A44adminRead More

Ed Watts, Soaring

BY DAVID NOH | At an early rehearsal for the new Encores! production of “It’s a Bird…It’s a Plane… It’s Superman,” composer Charles Strouse had a huge smile on his face listening to his rarely revived score. Afterwards, he enthused to the leading man, “What a wonderful voice! Where have you been?” That guy would be [...]

March 13, 201360221 CommentEd+Watts%2C+Soaring2013-03-13+16%3A52%3A37adminRead More

Grand Operas

BY DAVID SHENGOLD | It was exciting to hear one of Donizetti’s final operas, 1840’s “La Favorite,” in the language and city — though not the theater — for which it was conceived. The elegant Theatre des Champs-Elysees has only graced Paris since 1913. Despite serious flu besetting both female principals — Alice Coote (Leonor) and [...]

March 13, 20136016No CommentGrand+Operas2013-03-13+16%3A38%3A04adminRead More

Tuned and Toned

BY JOSEPH EHRMAN-DUPRE | The four hunky gay 20-somethings fall somewhere between a boy band and a symphony orchestra. Their energetic playing, bows jerking and surfing along the strings of their well-worn instruments, belies the classicism of their craft. And their voices flow effortlessly into the music, singing melodiously over the four-part harmony emitting from two [...]

February 27, 20135835No CommentTuned+and+Toned2013-02-27+20%3A54%3A02adminRead More

Musical Salvation

BY ELI JACOBSON | Wagner’s “Parsifal” is not a conventional opera in dramatic structure, content, or conception and should not be staged like one. The Metropolitan Opera’s previous production — the least successful of the Otto Schenk/ Günther Schneider-Siemssen “romantic, realistic” Met Wagner productions — turned the opera into Disneyfied kitsch. I remember vividly the Astroturf [...]

February 27, 20135801No CommentMusical+Salvation2013-02-27+19%3A28%3A15adminRead More

Martha Graham’s Spirit Kindled, Expanded

BY GUS SOLOMONS JR | How does a dance company survive after the death of its founding choreographer? That’s the question companies like Ailey and Limón have wrestled with successfully — by expanding their repertoires with works by new choreographers who reflect consonant aesthetic points of view. The Merce Cunningham Dance Company’s unprecedented solution was to [...]

February 13, 20135586No Comment2013-02-13+17%3A30%3A09adminRead More

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