Stickz, a Brooklyn native and raising star in the flex and bruk up dance community, decided to deal with the sudden death of a close friend through his art. Stickz created Blue Aura a 13 minute video placing his flex and bruk up style in a more traditional abstract dance narrative format. Continue reading
Michael Trusnovec embodies the Paul Taylor male esthetic. O&A NYC sat down with Trusnovec to discuss his 22 year association with the Taylor Company. Continue reading
American Ballet Theatre performance of Paul Taylor’s Airs featuring music by George Frideric Handel, filmed in San Francisco (1985). Continue reading
On Thursday October 23, 2014 Dance critic and author Jennifer Dunning talked with Dudley Williams about his career that spans almost six decades. Clack Center NYC hosted A Conversation with Dudley Williams at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Bruno Walter Auditorium, 40 Lincoln Center Plaza at 6pm.. Williams was frank, funny and informative, discussing a wide range of his experiences with some of the world’s most renowned choreographers.
Lil Buck and Jessica Keller have a shared love of high fashion and dance. The duet offered their version of recording artist Belly’s recent release Ballerina. Continue reading
Abdiel Jacobsen made his debut with the Martha Graham Dance Company as an apprentice dancing in Errand Into The Maze with world-renowned Russian ballerina Diana Vishneva. Continue reading
Talley Beatty choreographed and performed Mourner’s Bench in 1947. It represents the anguish and loss for former slaves, now free men, killed during the Reconstruction Era at the beginning of the rise of the Klu Klux Klan. Beatty explained to me, “People were murdered by the Klan and at daybreak their relatives would find their bodies in the fields still covered in the morning dew.”
Cry Me a River: A man writes off his ex lover by manifesting a ‘river’ of female dancers to act as an extension his indifference toward her. Featuring the music of Justin Timberlake, directed and choreographed by Andrew Winghart. Continue reading
Balcony scene from John Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet featuring Marcia Haydee and Richard Cragun with music by Sergei Prokofiev. Continue reading
Red Bull Flying Bach turns the international classical music world upside down. World champion b-boy crew Flying Steps visualises and revives Johann Sebastian Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier in a creative performance that combines classical music and urban culture. Continue reading
The Dance of the Village Elders are back ! This time we exercise, dance and just have fun through the zoom platform or in-person at R.A.I.N. Nereid 
The Dance of the Village Elders are back ! This time we exercise, dance and just have fun through the zoom platform or in-person at R.A.I.N. Nereid 