By Sanjoy Roy Like voters, audiences can be simultaneously essential, dissenting, and unfathomable. Take the sold-out mixed program by Nederlands Dans Theater at Sadler’s Wells, featuring one old and two new pieces. Everything looked great and was danced brilliantly (a sound reason for the company’s enduring popularity). What about the works? Audiences, fans, and critics
By Deborah Jones David Hallberg serenely slid to the floor, legs immaculately split, then turned to the audience in the Sydney Opera House. “Ouch,” he said. The moment was pure Kunstkamer, the work that lured Hallberg back to the stage after a two-year absence. Originally made for Nederlands Dans Theater in 2019, it’s a huge,
By Tessa Perkins Deneault “There are certain things we can’t explain and ways we’re connected that don’t have any basis in our regular logic,” says Vancouver-based choreographer Lesley Telford. “We’re connected in so many ways, like the unseen roots of trees.” Connection across distance, and the relationship between people and how they impact each other,