Frida Kahlo’s paintings are a blaze of colour, embedded in indigenous Mexican culture, and depicting a world quite apart from her life of chronic physical pain. In Kahlo’s iconic self-portraits, she eyeballs her audience with total honesty, exposing her broken and mangled body, the result of a crippling accident, and effectively subverting the male gaze.
Beauty unfolded in a series of enveloping embraces between dancers Jonathan Jordan and Francesca Dugarte in Diane Coburn Bruning’s Journey (2003). The duet opened Chamber Dance Project’s New Works + program in June. A summer-only project-based company founded by Coburn Bruning in New York in 2000 and relocated to Washington, D.C., in 2014, CDP’s modus
If ever there was a ballet destined to thrill, it’s Vendetta, Storie di Mafia. Predictably a big winner for Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal, the dazzlingly danced tale of the rise of a Mafia daughter to the head of her clan is a violent and glamorously staged commission from Colombian-Belgian choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa.