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The Dance Enthusiast Asks: Q+A with The Dance Enthusiast

The Dance Enthusiast Asks: Crystal Pite

Behind The Scenes with Kidd Pivot at the Baryshnikov Arts Center

Kidd Pivot Frankfurt RM, the company whose name refers at once to a boxer, gunslinger, pirate (Kidd) and precise, elegant movement (Pivot) provoked a huge sensation both critically and popularly with the work Dark Matters. Crystal Pite, Kidd Pivot's choreographer and artistic director, has been cited by Ella Baff, the executive director of Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, as  "one of the most talented, intelligent, and original dance makers to come along in recent years ... read more


 

Bessie Award Winner, Beth Gill Chats With The Dance Enthusiast About:

Risk, The Big Picture (and More)

"I am always trying to stay connected to what feels authentic to myself... I felt at the start of Electric Midwife that I was interested in doing something that I hadn’t done, which was work in an almost classically formal way. That felt outside of the trends I was seeing in contemporary dance ... read more


 

The Dance Enthusiast Asks K.J. Holmes And Sondra Loring

As Movement Research's Fall Festival Celebrates 20 Years This Year, We Speak to the Curators.

Festival Curators, K.J. Holmes and Sandra Loring talk about: beginnings, improvisation, choreography, presence, transformation and all sorts of artsy things you discover after 20 years of moving around. The Movement Research Fall Festival continues through December 4th, 2011.
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The Dance Enthusiast Asks The Guys and Dolls of Dance Now/NYC...

Veteran Artists of DanceNow/NYC on the Challenge of Creating a Work in Five Minutes or Less (and more)


Seventeen years ago, Robin Staff, had a vision of supporting dancers and challenging creativity. So, she created a festival. 
DanceNow NYC has presented work in  gyms, recreation centers,  empty swimming pools, firehouses, Soho Galleries, churches, oh, and traditional theaters too. Along the way, artists and audiences  have been encouraged to lighten up, let loose  and discover what they really love.

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The Dance Enthusiast Asks TenduTV

Want to know more about the fellow who is helping to bring NYC Dance (in 3D) to a theater near you?

Brittany Beyer, The Dance Enthusiast's New Enthusiastic Correspondent, Asks Marc Kirschner, Founder and General Manager of TenduTV, about What He Does and Why... (AND she manages to get him to do a tendu or two) video by Brittany Beyer for The Dance Enthusiast
How did Tendu TV come to be? ( ahem ... read more