Review by Anna Rogovoy, for Dance Pulp (BROOKLYN, N.Y.) – Pina Bausch has a gift for holding up a beautiful mirror and gently showing us how ridiculous we look. In Kontakthof, scenes unfold wildly out of proportion, with hysterical shrieks meeting compulsive preening meeting a fake mouse corpse. “There are dancers onstage,” Anna Wehsarg comments…
MASS MoCA Chunky Move March 24, 2012 Review by Anna Rogovoy (NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Australian contemporary dance company Chunky Move appeared at MASS MoCA over this past weekend in Connected, a collaborative work by sculptor Reuben Margolin and choreographer Gideon Obarzanek. Obarzanek, who has been the artistic director of Chunky Move since the company’s…
by Anna Rogovoy, Chief Dance Critic, The Rogovoy Report (BECKET, Mass., June 20, 2011) – The Jacob’s Pillow Season Opening Gala is unique and surprising in the broad scope of work represented in one evening of performances. And yet how could it be otherwise? How else to represent the dynamic range of programming that Executive…
